Kathleen Dawn O'Brien

Background

O'Brien, Kathleen Dawn was born on June 27, 1953 in Iola, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Patrick John and Barbara Jane (Moe) O'B.

Education

ADN, Mott Community College, Flint, Michigan, 1976; Bachelor of science in nursing summa cum laude, University of Michigan, 1992.

Career

Staff/charge nurse, St. Joseph Hospital, Flint, 1976-1987; paramedic clinical preceptor, Flint Osteopathic, 1979; staff nurse, Catherine McCauley Hospital, Ann Arbor, 1989-1990; staff nurse, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1989; charge nurse, clinical preceptor, clinical nurse II, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990-1992; flight nurse, clinical nurse III, paramedic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1992. Author/presenter seminar on the impaired professional, 1994, seminar "Family Violence", 1995, National Air Medical Emergency Superior vena cava syndrome "Denial is an Amazing Drug", 1995.

Achievements

• Kathleen Dawn O"Brien has been listed as a noteworthy Flight nurse specialist, paramedic by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member weapons task force Saline (Michigan) School Board, 1992. Presenter Michigan chapter Emergency Nurses Cancel Alcohol Related Emergencies, since 1992. Guest lecturer Survival Flight, Ann Arbor.

Member ANA, Michigan Nurses Association, Emergency Nurses Association, National Flight Nurses Association.

Interests

• Avocations: travel, Shakespeare, celtic music and history, gardening, camping.

Connections

Married Martin Magill Leach, April 14, 1972 (divorced July 1986). Children: Rebecca Leach, Philip Leach, Michael Leach.

Father:

Patrick John O'B.

Mother:

Barbara Jane (Moe) O'B.

Spouse:

Martin Magill Leach

child:

Rebecca Leach O'Brien

child:

Philip Leach O'Brien

child:

Michael Leach O'Brien