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194 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS a clinical nurse specialist in neurosurgery at the Hermann Hospital and University of Texas Health Sciences Center. Dr. McNair also served Mercy General Hospital as a clinical nurse specialist in neuroscience and stroke. A stroke certified registered nurse, acute care nurse practitioner, adult health clinical nurse specialist, certified neuroscience registered nurse and certified critical care nurse, Dr. McNair holds a BS in nursing from California State University, Sacramento, MSN from Yale University and PhD in traumatic brain injury from the University of California Los Angeles. Additionally, she is a fellowof the American Heart Association and maintains affiliation with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses and the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. McNair won the 2014 Excellence in Advanced Practice Nursing Award from the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Dr. Norma Dianne McNair is a retired cl inical nurse special ist who specialized in vascular surgery, plastic reconstructive surgery and orthopedic trauma. Serving the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for 27 years, she retired in 2018. Prior, Dr. McNair served first as a clinical nurse specialist in the Neurosurgery and Trauma ICU, then a clinical nurse III in the Transplant ICU, and interim director of the Research and Evidence-Based Practice. Punctuating these appointments, she was also a member of MIRB 3 in the UCLA Office of the Human Research Protection Program, graduate research assistant to Dr. A. Nyamathi and graduate special reader at UC Los Angeles, and faculty member at the Southern California campus of the University of Phoenix. At the inception of her career in 1976, Dr. McNair was a staff nurse at Sutter General Hospital before becoming a clinical nurse II at the UC Davis Medical Center and staff nurse at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. Later, she became a staff nurse in the Surgical ICU of the Hospital of St. Raphael, and NORMA DIANNE MCNAIR, PHD, RN CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST (RETIRED) Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, CA

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