is a clinical instructor for the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing in Lubbock, Texas.  She is also currently serving as a Family Nurse Practitioner in a medically underserved nurse managed clinic specializing in family practice. Her past clinical expertise has included Wound Management and Limb Salvage, Cardiac Care, Renal Transplantation, Organ and Tissue Donation, and multiple years in critical care settings, serving Eastern New Mexico, West Texas and the Texas Panhandle.  Her research interests include wound management, limb salvage, and genital piercings.