Kathy has been a registered nurse for 33 years. Her experience spans women's health from infants through elderly women. Her specialties include Orthopedics, Maternal Child Health, Breast Health and consumer education. She is certified as a Breast Patient Navigator in breast imaging and cancer care. She is also an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a certified Arthritis Exercise Instructor. A graduate of San Jose State University, she earned her Bachelors in Nursing in 1977. She has worked for Washington Hospital for 22 years. She is a local resident of Fremont with her husband of 31 years. She has two grown children born here at Washington Hospital.