Curriculum Vitae
2013 National Black Nurses Association, Created quarterly genetics newsletter resource column entitled, What's the Helix?
2011 International Society for Nurses in Genetics, Continuing Education Committee 24th Annual Conference Co-Chairperson
2011-2012 International Society for Nurses in Genetics, Global Membership Committee, Co-Chairperson
2010-2005-2010 National Black Nurses Association, Special Interest Group in Genetics Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Alpha Theta Chapter, Co-chair health care advisory board
2005 American Nurses Credentialing Center, Pediatric CNS Content Expert Panel
Professional and Society Memberships
2010-2014 Obesity Society
2009- Southern Nurses Research Society
2009- Sigma Theta Tau (Gamma Chapter)
2008- Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science
2008-2011 Midwest Nursing Research Society
2008- International Society for Nurses in Genetics
2005- National Black Nurses Association
2005-2012 Society of Pediatric Nurses
2003, 2005 Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, Inc. CPN Examination Item Writer
2002- National League for Nurses
2001- New Orleans District Nurses Association
1997- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
1995- American Nurses Association
1995- Louisiana State Nurses Association
Editorial Activities
2017- Editorial Board, Journal Palliative Care and Nursing
2016- Editorial Board, Journal of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
2016- Editor-in-Chief, NBNANews, Official Newsletter of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
2014- Guest editor, Nursing Research and Practice special edition on Health Disparities in Genomics and Genetics
2012- Abstract Reviewer, International Society of Nurses in Genetics
2013- Abstract Reviewer, Council for the Academy of Nursing Science
2011 Journal Reviewer, Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
2011 Journal Reviewer, Obesity Reviews
2010 Journal Reviewer, [Special Edition] Infant, Child & Adolescent Nutrition
2010-2014 Journal Reviewer, Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing
2009 Journal Reviewer, Future Medicine
2009- Abstract Reviewer, Southern Nurses Research Society
2013- Journal Reviewer, Research in Nursing and Health