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Joan joined the staff of Good Shepherd in April 2010 as the Caring Ministries Coordinator. She has been a member of Good Shepherd for three years and began volunteer work as a Hospital Visitation and Communion Minister at that time. She is excited about her new position in the church and hopes to add new areas to the ministry that include nutrition and wellness as well as continuing the focus on Stephen Ministries, Hospital Visitation and Communion Ministry, Divorce Care and much more.
Joan has a BS degree in Clinical and Community Dietetics and a MS degree in Exercise and Sports Sciences from the University of Florida. She has a diverse background in her field of nutrition and wellness. She began her work as a Food Service Coordinator and Registered Dietitian for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program as well as a consultant dietitian for nine assisted living programs in South Florida in 1992. In 1995, she moved to Denver and was hired as an adjunct faculty for the nursing programs for both Red Rocks and Arapahoe Community Colleges. She worked as a dietitian for both a Women’s Health Specialists Clinic providing weight management counseling and education in addition to a Family Practice Center, specifically counseling HIV and AIDS patients. In 1998, she was hired as a dietitian by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where she was part of the Center for Human Nutrition. Along with a wonderful staff of health professionals and researchers, she was responsible for research, teaching, counseling, and writing in all areas of weight management. Upon the arrival of a first child in 2002, she began a part-time position counseling individuals in a Clinical Nutrition Center in Denver.
Joan is a native to Bismarck. After being gone for 21 years, Joan returned to Bismarck in 2005 with her husband Dave (a Dickinson native) and their two children, Sierra and Chase. She enjoys music and loves the outdoors, specifically running, biking, working in her yard, and playing with her kids. Her favorite getaways are with her family, skiing, hiking, and camping in the mountains.
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