A native of Berlin, New Hampshire, he has more than 30 years of professional nursing experience in several capacities. He earned a Diploma in Nursing from the New Hampshire Hospital School of Nursing and completed a Bachelors of Science in Nursing and a Masters of Science at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Lamontagne is board certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner by the American Nursing Association. He has been employed at Holland CompWorks as a managed care nurse facilitator and at the Newport Health Center where he was director of occupational health services and medical practice manager. Mr. Lamontagne has consulted professionally, published articles on Workers’ Compensation, and lectures. He is a Lt Col in the New Hampshire Wing of the Civil Air Patrol in charge of health and safety and is bilingual in English and French.