New Focus on Health series by Betty Ulrich

Friday, September 25, 2015

Nurse Practitioner Betty Ulrich will address personal and community health concerns in a new series on Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. at Putnam County Public Library.

Ulrich entered nursing when she joined the Army in 1972. She served as a medic, ICU nurse and nurse practitioner at Fort Harrison Army Base in Hawaii and Washington, D.C., at Fort Bragg, N.C., and in Germany. She received her master's degree in Adult Chronic Illness at Boston College in 1991 and a Family Nurse Practitioner master's degree from Duke University in 1999.

She joined the Foreign Service (Diplomatic Corp) in 2001 and served in Ghana, West Africa (2001): Islamabad, Pakistan (2003); Budapest, Hungary (2005), Rabat, Morocco (2008); Washington, D.C. (2009); Kabul, Afghanistan (2011) with gap assignments in Monrovia, Liberia (2010); Nairobi, Kenya (2010); Tel Aviv, Israel (2003); Berne, Switzerland (2010); Luanda, Angola (2011) and recently in Baku, Azerbaijan (2015).

Ulrich retired to Greencastle in 2012, and now works as a part-time volunteer in St. Ann's Clinic in Terre Haute.

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