Welcome to this new school year!  In order to get us off to a great start, I've included information and links on this site to give you a heads up about me and the information we'll be covering in Anatomy & Physiology and Chemistry in the 2010-11 school year.  Before getting into our course material, let me introduce myself.

This year will be my second year at Hillcrest.  My first career was in Family Medicine.  After finishing my undergraduate degree in Microbiology, I attended LSU Medical School for four years and received my Doctor of Medicine degree.  I then completed three years of residency in Family Medicine and went into family practice as well as emergency medicine in East Tenessee.  When my husband and I moved to Idaho Falls, we started our family of four daughters and I morphed into a (mostly) stay-at-home mom and home school teacher for my girls.  I did continue some part-time medical involvements off and on during this time.  Four years ago I started a brand new career in teaching as a substitute teacher.  I enjoyed my involvement with students so much that I decided to become certified in Natural Science so I could teach the subjects I love at the high school level.  Last year I began teaching full-time