Lori is licensed as a women’s health care nurse practitioner with a primary area of interest in women’s / infant’s mental health issues. She has been in nursing for 25 years, working through the ranks of CNA/LPN/ RN/NP. She taught in the Nursing and Family and Human Development departments for 13 years at Weber State University and Utah State University. She most recently taught in the online nurse educator MSN program at WSU. Lori has a love for teaching and learning about why and how individuals learn. She has designed numerous online and distant education courses. She completed her Master’s degree in nursing at the University of Utah and her doctorate in education from Capella.

Lori and her family moved to Sitka in January of 2005 from Northern Utah, but she has also lived in California, North Carolina, and Tennessee. She has been married for 28 years and has four children (only one left at home) and a beautiful granddaughter! Lori’s husband is an optometrist at SEARHC. She loves hiking, cooking, traveling, theater, and walking her spoiled labradoodle.