Alumni
This page is dedicated to our Alumni. If you have any news that you would like us to share with your fellow Alumni please send it to: Jill Ullmann and we will be happy to post it for you. We will also post any Alumni announcements here.
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Bob Kepshire (AAS – Nursing 1986, BS – Nursing 1988, MS – Nursing 1991, BS – Landscape Architecture 1981 West Lafayette Campus). Bob was named the Chief Nursing Officer at Spalding Regional Medical Center in Griffin, GA in January 2009. Spalding Regional Medical Center is a 160-bed community hospital and is part of Tenet Health Corporation. Bob also serves as the Consulting Editor for the Lippincott Williams and Wilkins nursing publication Men in Nursing. Bob also earned a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies from St. Leo University and was ordained as a Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church in 2008. |
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Ronald Pondo, RN, CEN, CFRN (ADN ‘01)
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Lt. Col. Marcia Potter discusses her experiences when deployed overseas!
Marcia is headed to Afghanistan in Jan 2009 for a 6 month deployment. FNPs are in very high demand in the military because of their extreme versatility for patient care. Marcia is the current Commander of the Medical Operations Squadron here at Dover AFB in DE – a position roughly equivalent to a civilian hospital COO. She still sees patients every day. Marcia still has a passion for nursing – that passion gets re-fired quite often because of the unique situations she finds herself practicing in. She still thinks the best educational move she ever made was to come to Purdue University Calumet – the problem solving, the evidence-based focus, the camaraderie certainly set the stage for all of her subsequent successes. |
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Ronald Pondo (Nursing-ADN) graduated from Purdue Calumet in Dec 2001. He has obtained certification as a CEN, CCRN, and CFRN. He moved from the region to Phoenix, AZ in June 2003. He has been employed as a Flight Nurse and ER/Trauma Nurse since moving. Ron is currently employed by “Air Evac” and Banner Del Webb Hospital. He would like to thank all the staff in the Nursing Dept who helped him achieve his goals of becoming a Flight Nurse. Thank You!
Marcia graduated from Purdue University Calumet’s FNP program in 2000. She was the topic of an article that features some of her experiences in Balad, Iraq.