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| Meet the Clinicians |
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Connie Kelly
RN, CWOCN
Connie Kelly has been a Registered Nurse for 25 years, with 21 of those years as a Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse (CWOCN). She works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in downtown Chicago, and received her bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University and her Master’s Degree from Rush University in Chicago. Ms. Kelly enjoys working with individuals who have an ostomy because "each person is unique and provides unending inspiration." |
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Debbie Kenyon
R.N., S.C.N.
Debbie Kenyon has been a Stoma Care Specialist nurse for over 8 years. She currently works at Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation Trust in the North West of the UK in Manchester, where she provides care to both adults and children with all types of ostomies. Debbie believes that stoma management should be kept as simple as possible for patients, and she actively encourages them to return to their pre-surgery lifestyle. |
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Vashti Livingston
RN, BC, MS, CNS, CWOCN
Vashti Livingston is a Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse Specialist (CWOCN) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Sidney Kimmel Urology Division. She primarily consults outpatient clients for wounds, ostomies, continent urinary diversions and incontinence management. Prior to her current role, Ms. Livingston worked at the Mount Sinai Wound Clinic and at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York as the CWOCN CNS. She is also currently consulting and conducting teaching projects on pressure ulcers. |
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Laurie Lovejoy McNichol
MSN, RN, GNP, CWOCN
Laurie Lovejoy McNichol is a Master’s prepared Geriatric Nurse Practitioner who has been a board certified Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurse for 18 years. She has both hospital and home health WOC nursing experience and has led two delegations of US based WOC Nurses to China and Russia. Laurie has been active in the UOAA and is a nationally recognized lecturer on wound, ostomy and continence topics. |
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C.C. Monge
CWOCN, RN, MS, DABFN
C.C. Monge has been a nurse for over 35 years and a Certified Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse for 7 years. C.C. most enjoys helping her patients with ostomies simplify their lives as much as possible. Living with an ostomy presents some unique challenges, and C.C. is committed to helping make the experience of living with an ostomy an easy one. |
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Angie Perrin
RGN, BSc, Dip.N, ENB 216
Angie Perrin has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in stoma and colorectal nursing for almost 15 years. She currently heads a team of 5 CNSs in stoma care at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England. Angie received her BSc in 1999 from City University in London and is completing her Nurse Practitioner MSc. Angie has a keen interest in caring for individuals who have an ileo-anal pouch and has set up one of the first nurse-led clinics for ileo-anal pouch patients in the UK. |
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Amanda Smith
BSc, ENB 216, RGN, RSCN
Amanda Smith has been a Stoma Care Specialist nurse for over 12 years. She currently works at Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation Trust in the North West of the UK in Manchester, where she provides care for ostomy patients from their initial consultation throughout their entire lifetime. Amanda is especially interested in the management of peristomal skin problems and believes that all ostomy patients should be actively encouraged to return to their pre-surgery lifestyle. |
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