Kathy Dunn, MS, RN, CRRN, CNS,
has 32 years experience working in SCI nursing, both in the VA system and private sector. She has her masters degree in rehabilitation nursing from Rush University. She is currently the clinical nurse specialist and rehabilitation case manager at a VA spinal cord injury center. She is a published author and teaches extensively for both lay and professional groups, including guest lecturing for 4 local schools of nursing on SCI nursing care and teaching in Brazil. She is a member of ARN, AASCIN, ASIA, and a honorary life member of PVA. She serves on the steering committee for the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine representing the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. She was selected to be Clinical Nurse Specialist of the Year for 2003 by the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS).
Cissi Wimberly Oloomi MSN, RN, CNS, FNP, CNRN, CRRN has 27 years in the various settings of the specialty of neuroscience and rehabilitation nursing, including acute & chronic care of the SCI patient. She received her master.s degree as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and a post-graduate certificate as a family practice Nurse Practitioner from Texas Woman.s University, Houston. She currently works as a SCI service line Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Practitioner at a VA Spinal Cord Injury Center. She has advanced practice certification in rehabilitation nursing (CRRN-A) and neuroscience nursing certification (CNRN). She is a member of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN), Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) and the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses (AASCIN). She is a published author & also a co-editor of chapters in the neuroscience nursing core curriculum. She has presented numerous times at the national and local levels on various neuroscience topics.
Ann Doubek, RN, MS, FNP has worked with SCI populations for over 15 years in various outpatient, inpatient, long term care and home care settings in the VA system. She currently works as the primary care provider in the SCI Residential Care Facility. She has her masters degree and family nurse practitioner certification from University of Illinois and was a recipient of a National Health Service Scholarship. She taught at the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing and is currently an adjunct faculty member at several Schools of Nursing in the Chicago area. She has presented on such topics as physical assessment of the SCI patient, home care, urinary tract infections, wound care and hypomagnesemia.
Cyndy Fine, MSN, CRRN has been a rehabilitation nurse since her graduation from Georgetown University in 1975 and has worked predominantly with individuals who have become spinal cord injured since then. She received her Masters of Science in Rehabilitation Nursing in 1980 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Her career has taken her to many different positions at both the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia. She is now the Director of the Rehabilitation Medicine department at St. Mary of Langhorne, in Langhorne, PA.
Her many professional activities include teaching at a local, regional and national level on the many aspects of neurological rehabilitation nursing. She has also authored chapters in the trauma nurse's core curriculum and the rehab nurse's core curriculum on the many aspects of rehab nursing.
Her special interests in the area of spinal cord injury include sexuality and sexual functioning, understanding the Neurologic processes that occur with spinal cord injury and issues of aging with a spinal cord injury.
