EXPERIENCE

St. Davids Partnership/HCA

AVP Trauma Services/ Central West Texas Division                                April 24, 2017 - present

Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas

Director, Trauma, Child Abuse Resource & Education (CARE),

and Orthopedic Service Lines                                                                       April 2013 – April 2017

St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Trauma Program Manager                                                                          June 2005 – April 2013

St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Staff Nurse, Critical Care Transport Team                                         September 1999– June 2006

St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Manager, General Medicine                                                           January 1997- September1999

St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Administrative Supervisor                                                                     August 1994-January 1997

St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse, Emergency Department                    January 1992 – December 1994

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse, Emergency Department                      August 1985 – December 1993

• American Trauma Society Trauma Leadership Council                   January 2022 to present
• Capitol Area Trauma Regional Advisory Council (CATRAC)

Data Quality Chair                                                                           September 2022 to present

• Society of Trauma Nurses, TOPIC Instructor                                   September 2020 to present
• American Trauma Society, TPM Course Instructor                             December 2014 - present
• State of Texas, Emergency Advisory Council, EMSC                               January 2014 - 2019
• Governor’s EMS and Trauma Advisory Council                            January 2014 to August 2016
  • (GETAC) Pediatric Committee
• Texas Hospital Association, Policy Committee on Trauma and Emergency Services
• Society of Trauma Nurses, Pediatric Committee, Chair                         April 2009 – April 2014
• Society of Trauma Nurses, Director at Large                                         April 2014 - April 2016
• Capitol Area Trauma Regional Advisory Council, Executive Board       August 2013-April 2017
• Trauma Center Association of America                                                    April 2009- April 2017
  • Pediatric Sub-Committee
• Pediatric Trauma Society (founding member)                                    January 2011 to present
• Missouri 1- Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)
  • Deployed to New York Presbyterian Hospital Burn Unit as a member of the MO 1 DMAT team caring for the WTC burn victims
• Vice President of St. Louis Regional Trauma Center Association.
• President, St. Louis Regional Trauma Center Association.
• EMS-C advisory member for State of Missouri.
• Chair of the Pediatric Sub-Committee/ EMS-C for State Advisory Council, Bureau of EMS, Department of Health and Senior Services
• Trauma Sub-committee for the State of Missouri Bureau of EMS.
• Past Chair, American College of Surgeons (ACS) Missouri Committee on Trauma, Pediatric Sub-committee.

• ​     September 2025- Presented ‘What it means to be Pediatric Ready’ at the HCA CSG Trauma Nurse Advisory Council (TNAC) Education Series.

•      October 2025- Presented ‘Understanding the Elements of a High-Performing Geriatric Trauma Program’ at Trauma System News Geriatric Symposium

• March 2019- Presented ‘What it takes to be a Pediatric Trauma Center’ HCA Trauma CSG Enterprise wide education series.

• September 2018- Presented ‘Pediatric Trauma Expectations of the Standard of Care’ HCA Trauma CSG Trauma Summit, Orlando, Florida

• April 2016- Presented ‘Looking thru the Rearview Mirror: Case Reviews in Pediatric Trauma’

at the Society of Trauma Nurses National Conference, Anaheim, California

• December 2012- Presented ‘The Role and Training of the Trauma Nurse Specialist’ at the 22nd Annual Region VII Trauma Program Manager’s Winter Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri