Ann Brewer, BSN, RN

Over the years, I have been a staff nurse and have held numerous administrative positions in hospitals and home health care agencies. Probably my most challenging, but most rewarding position was as the Female Health Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections where I was able to make some significant differences in the health outcomes of our female offenders. I served on the Wisconsin Board of Nursing for seven years and was the chairperson in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, I moved to Washington, DC and began working at the National Institutes of Health as the Director of the Executive Secretariat. In this capacity, I worked directly for the NIH Director and Deputy Director, and with all 27 Institutes’ and Centers,’ directors including Dr. Tony Fauci, Director of the NIAID. I retired in 2015 and moved back to Madison, where I have served on the UW-Madison School of Nursing Board of Visitors and the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Initiative to End Alzheimer’s Disease Board. After four years of retirement and missing nursing, I became a Nurse Advocate for a private health advocacy company.