Karen Heminway Wood

Background

Wood, Karen Heminway was born on January 16, 1949 in Winstead, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Edwin Harwood and Joan Elsie (Muir) Heminway.

Education

Diploma, Massachusetts General Hospital School Nursing, Boston, 1974; student, University Southern Maine, Portland, 1979.

Career

Charge nurse medical-surgical, Waltham (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1974-1975; alternate charge nurse Intensive Care Unit, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Dover, N.H., 1975-1978; ENT nurse practitioenr, private physician, Dover, 1979-1984; geriatric/psychiatric nurse practitioner, Frisbie Hospital, Rochester, N.H., 1984-1987; ENT nurse practitioner, private physician, Rochester, 1987-1988; occupational health nurse practitioenr, Center for Health Promotion, Portland, Maine., 1989-1994; obstetrics-gynecology. nurse practitioner, Women's Cmty. Health Center, South Portland, Maine., since 1990; occupational health case manager, Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company, Portland, since 1994.

Achievements

• Karen Heminway Wood has been listed as a noteworthy Family nurse practitioner by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member, then chair Planning Board, North Berwick, Maine, 1976-1981. Member Maine Nurse Practitioners Group, Nurst Practitioners Association for Continuing Education.

Interests

• Avocations: running, biking, swimming, reading.

Connections

Married Ronald Fred Wood, October 11, 1969. Children: Stephanie Elizabeth, Warren Paul.

Father:

Edwin Harwood Heminway

Mother:

Joan Elsie (Muir) Heminway

Spouse:

Ronald Fred Wood

child:

Warren Paul Wood

child:

Stephanie Elizabeth Wood