CANNP Board

To contact a board member please email: carolina.nnps@gmail.com

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Stephanie Blake

Sharon Rush

Kristi Coe

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Amy Jnah

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Jennifer Porter

Stephanie Blake

President

Dr. Stephanie McCallum Blake is also a board-certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She received both her MSN and DNP degrees from Duke University and has the distinction of being the first masters prepared NNP from the Duke School of Nursing. She currently is employed full time in the Intensive Care Nursery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham NC.  In addition to her clinical responsibilities she is also adjunct faculty at the Duke University School of Nursing, providing guidance and helping to prepare current NNP students as they complete their residency and enter into their new role.  Dr. Blake has presented at several national nursing conferences, has been published in peer reviewed nursing journals and currently is authoring a textbook chapter.  Over the last several years she has become passionate about the health burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in our neonatal population. On the community front she is the former coordinator for Toys for Tots in Chatham County. She is married to her wonderful husband Steven and in her free time she enjoys spending time with friends and family as well as traveling to the beach or mountains.

Sharon Rush

Vice President

I was born and raised in the great state of Maine, a true Yankee. I started my nursing career as a graduate of Eastern Maine Medical Center School of Nursing in 1985. I went right into the NICU as a new graduate and spent 13 years there at EMMC in Bangor Maine. After the great ice storm of 1998 in the northeast, I packed the family and household up and headed south to warmer weather.  I have spent the last 19 years in the NICU at Cape Fear Valley in Fayetteville NC.  In 2005 I graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina with my MSN degree in the NNP program, and continued practicing at Cape Fear Valley only in the advanced practice role as an NNP. In my spare time, I’ve raised 3 successful children and am anxiously awaiting my first grandchild this August of 2017. Traveling is my number one passion and looking forward to retirement.

Kristi Coe

Secretary

Dr. Kristi Coe is neonatal nurse practitioner who completed her PhD in 2019 from UNC-G. Her neonatal nursing career started in 1989 after graduation from an ADN program at Surry Community College. She completed a BSN from UNC-G; NNP certificate from ECU; MSN-CNS and Post-Grad Certificate PNP from Duke. Her family says she is a life-long student!
She teaches MSN courses at Duke SON and practices as an NNP at Cone Health. She retired after 30+ years from Wake Forest Baptist Health Neo/Peds Transport & NICU and worked 5 years in pediatric primary care in Asheboro. She has been a member of CANNP for 10+ years, member of NANN & NANNP and was a former member of NAPNAP for several years.
She loves research and interests include infant mortality and morbidity, respiratory problems in neonates and infants, neonatal skin issues, neonatal infections, and late preterm infants. Her Dissertation examined outcomes in older preterm and early term infants 32-38 weeks gestation and used Transitions Theory as the conceptual framework. In her spare time, she likes gardening, spending time with family and friends, shopping, and trips to the beach. She is married (25+yrs) to Larry and has 2 adult children (daughter is a newly graduated nurse).

Amy Jnah

Treasurer

Dr. Amy Jnah is a board certified neonatal nurse practitioner, professor, researcher, Army wife and mother of two. She is the director for the neonatal nurse practitioner concentration (MSN) with East Carolina University. Dr. Jnah has published articles in several peer reviewed nursing journals, several textbook chapters (to be released in 2016) and is a nurse researcher within the clinical and academic setting. Her academic research trajectory includes mentoring and its implications for the neonatal nurse practitioner workforce. Dr. Jnah's clinical research trajectory include non-invasive screening mechanisms for premature neonates, psychomotor skills competency, and simulation -based training. In her "spare" time, she enjoys triathlons, tennis and vacations to the beach with her family!

Jenny Porter

Member-at-Large

Jenny Porter is a military brat, growing up all over the world, and settling in Fayetteville, North Carolina with her family in 2000. She graduated with her ADN in 1997 from Kansas Wesleyan University, her BSN in 2004 from Fayetteville State University, and finally her MSN in 2013 from East Carolina University. She is the mother of three boys, one who is also a nurse, and soon to be a grandmother. She began her nursing career as an L&D nurse and has a passion for all things neonatal. She developed a Golden Hour protocol for neonates <32 weeks’ gestation in her Level III NICU at Cape Fear Valley Health System where she has worked since 2000, first as a bedside nurse and later a NNP. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and children at the track where her boys race motocross, something her family has done for the past 25 years.