Background
Kopka, Kathy Dean was born on January 29, 1958 in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of William Woodrow and Edna Earl Lockamy.
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Kathy Dean Kopka
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Associate of Arts, Wake Technology Community College, 1979.
Career
Staff nurse orthopedics, Wake Medical Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1977-1980;
Express Mail Service nurse liaison, Wake Medical Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1990-1992;
staff nurse pediatrics, Durham County General Hospital, 1980-1982;
staff nurse/charge nurse pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Human Sunrise Hospital, Las Vegas, 1982-1983;
staff nurse pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, 1983-1984;
critical care transport nurse, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, 1986-1990;
flight nurse, Flight for Life-Valley Hospital, Las Vegas, 1984-1986;
clinical nurse assistant supervisor, education clinician, Carolina Air Care U. North Carolina Hospital, Chapel Hill, since 1992. Member Wake County Express Mail Service Advisory Council, Raleigh, 1990-1992, Express Mail Service-C Task Force North Carolina. Nurse, expert witness, chart reviewer Patterson Clay Dithay, Raleigh, since 1991.
Co-coordinator aeromedical symposium North Carolina Aeromed. Affiliation, Chapel Hill, 1994.
Achievements
Membership
Triage nurse North Carolina American Red Cross Repatriazation, Raleigh, 1990. Medical volunteer coord.N.C. Eastern Multiple Sclerosis Bikeathon, Raleigh, Greenville, North Carolina, since 1987. Nurse lecturer ENCARE, Raleigh, since 1990.
CPR instructor to civic and community organizations, Raleigh, Durham, since 1987. Medical coordinator North Carolina Diabetes Association. Member American Heart Association (Professional CPR award 1987), American Association Critical CareNurses, North Carolina Aeromed.
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Interests
Connections
Married Gerald Christopher Markel, September 12, 1982 (divorced 1988). 1 child, Taylor Ashton. Married Barney Alan Kopka, May 15, 1993.
1 child, Tyler James.
