Impressively, she holds a BSN, MSN, a post-master’s teaching certificate, an MBE in bioethics, and a PhD in nursing. She has held positions as a nurse clinician, educator and/or researcher for over 35 years, and was previously the director of the national Nursing Centers Research Network. She also served on the steering committee for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Practice Based Research Network. Finally, she has a wide array of publications to her credit, including the 2007 academic journal article ‘Confidentiality Challenges and Good Clinical Practices in Human Subjects Research: Striking a Balance’ in Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, among many others.