Margaret Bellis Dyer-Weissman

Background

Dyer-Weissman, Margaret Bellis was born on September 21, 1942 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Norman Phillips and Martha Katherine (Totten) Bellis.

Education

Bachelor of science in nursing, University of Virginia, 1964; MSN, Seton Hall U., 1986; certified, Rutgers University, 1989, 90.

Career

Head nurse pediatrics, Long Beach (New York) Memorial Hospital, 1967-1968; charge nurse pediatrics/maternity, Newton (New Jersey) Memorial Hospital, 1968-1976; pediatric nurse practitioner, United States Health Care, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, 1985-1986; perinatal clinical nurse specialist, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Paterson, New Jersey, 1986-1989; coordinator fetal alcohol syndrome prevention project, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Paterson, New Jersey, 1989-1990; director, Sussex County Division Public Health Nursing, Newton, since 1990. Consultant Passaic County Council Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention, Inc., Clifton, New Jersey, 1990. Assistant adjunct rof. nursing County College of Morris, Randolph, New Jersey, 1990.

Member nursing advanced.com. New Jersey State Department Health, 1993-1994, member parent child health advising committee, 1994-1995. Member Newark European Medicines Agency Human Immunodeficiency Virus Health Superior vena cava syndrome Planning Council, since 1994.

Achievements

• Margaret Bellis Dyer-Weissman has been listed as a noteworthy nurse administrator, nurse practitioner, pediatric nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Den leader Cub Scouts American, Sparta, New Jersey, 1977-1980. Member Sparta Presbyterian Church, health professional advising committee March of Dimes. Trustee N.W. New Jersey Maternal Child Health Network, since 1992.

Lieutenant United States Navy, 1964-1967. Member National Association Pediatric Nurse Associations and Practitioners, Sussex County Professional Advisory Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (chairman 1991-1992), Sussex County Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Task Force, Sussex County Council on Svc. Agencies (treasurer 1991-1993), New Jersey Public Health Nurse Adminstrs., National Association Perinatal Addiction Specialists (charter member, board of trustees, recording secretary 1994).

Interests

• Avocation: church bell ringing, walking/exercise, needlework, skiing, traveling.

Connections

Married Brooks Christy Dyer, May 6, 1967 (divorced December 1985). Children: Matthew P. Dyer, Jennifer C. Dyer, David B. Dyer. Married Melvyn George Weissman, May 28, 1989.

Father:

Norman Phillips Bellis

Mother:

Martha Katherine (Totten) Bellis

Spouse:

Melvyn George Weissman

Spouse:

Brooks Christy Dyer

child:

Jennifer C. Dyer Dyer-Weissman

child:

David B. Dyer Dyer-Weissman

child:

Matthew P. Dyer Dyer-Weissman