Executive Director

Fellow Kentucky Perinatal Association Members,

It is an honor to serve you, the healthcare professional, which has chosen to dedicate their lives in the quest of improving the health status of high risk mommies and babies in the Commonwealth. The strength of our organization is based on a strong board of directors; membership and business partners.

Starting on Valentine’s Day of 1972, I had the opportunity to serve you on a commercial basis; I was always impressed by the untiring commitment of nurses and physicians, who gave it their all to their tiny patients. For this reason, it was important to administratively and financially find ways to bring education to the nurse via forming seven neonatal nurse associations in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and Indiana. When I retired, likewise did the neonatal nurse associations. For this reason, the educational offerings of the Kentucky Perinatal Association are more important than ever, in filling the gap on specific Perinatal educational needs.

I am truly indebted to the thousands of nurses, doctors and ancillary personnel who cultivated my passion for perinatology early in my career. They are, but not limited to: Drs. Greg Culley; Billy F. Andrews; David H. Adamkin; Larry N. Cook; Tom Pauley; Patricia Nichol; Carlos Hernandez; Danny Strunk; Daniel Garcia; Gerald Sturgeon; Stefan Maxwell and Steve Davis. Nurses-Dieticians’: Martha Blair; Rosemary Morris; Peggy Kidd; Elaine Perkins; Sister Marie Weber; Kay Ragland; Marilyn Davis; Jena Avery; Amy Snell; Edith Fugate and scores of nurses in Kentucky; West Virginia; Virginia’ Tennessee; Indiana and Ohio.

Having the opportunity to observe the impact of the addition of ferrous sulfate to infant formula via the WIC program; ECMO; surfactant and neonatal IV solutions administered early in their births have been an exhilarating experience.

As we face new challenges with late term births; drugs adversely affecting the fetus and other legal and ethical confrontations, it is certain the Kentucky Perinatal Association will play an important constitue in their resolution.

The opportunity to “pay back” is now. I cherish the opportunity to serve you and our babies in my own, but small way.