Dr. Dierdre Gilliam, DNP, RN, PHN

Dr. Dee Dee Gilliam is a Public Health Nurse with over 30 years’ experience in public health administration, emergency preparedness/disaster response, program planning, and management. She started her career with an Associate’s in Applied Science – Nursing from Front Range Community College, and currently holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Advanced Healthcare Leadership from Regis University. She has served as a staff nurse on an infectious disease unit, a nurse manager in Adult and Family Medicine and Pediatric ambulatory care, Director of Nursing and Field Health for the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, Director of Public Health Nursing for an agricultural county in Northern California, and the inaugural Director of Student Health and Wellness for the second largest community college district in California, with four colleges and 65,000 students, during the early COVID-2 pandemic. She served 15 years as a nurse in the US Army Reserve and has been trained in FEMA incident command and management systems. Dee Dee loves to build new programs, whether in planning a Diabetes Walk to emphasize the importance of exercise and how to eat healthy on commodity foods for a Native community, building college health and wellness programs, or leading pandemic response for H1N1 or SARS-CoV-2.