Natalie del Muro Galante, NP-S, is in her final semester of the pediatric nurse practitioner program at Columbia University. A premed major at the University of California at Berkeley, Natalie thought she would become a pediatrician, but an interest in early child development caused her to change course. Now she believes she was meant to be an NP all along.
Vanessa Battista is in her final year of the pediatric nurse practitioner program at Columbia University. A series of personality tests during her undergraduate years at Boston College foretold her future career as an NP. She’s currently a nurse research coordinator working with patients with mitochondrial and neuromuscular diseases in the department of pediatric neurology at the Columbia University Medical Center while she finishes the NP program.
Bev Schindler-Wooley is a student in gerontologic nurse practitioner program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. She plans to graduate in May 2009. For the past 12 years, she has worked for the state of Texas: the first 8 in long-term care regulatory as a nursing home surveyor and compliance reviewer, and the last 4 in the Office of the Ombudsman as an informal dispute resolution reviewer. Bev is a passionate advocate who is committed to improving the quality of life of our most valued and honorable population, our older adults, by providing the highest quality of care as a practitioner and as an educator, change agent and leader.