ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER
 Dr. Maxine Nunez received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Loyola University, Chicago and completed a master's degree in public health nursing at Boston University. She then attended Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, from which she received dual degrees: an MPH (masters of public health) and a Dr.P.H. (doctor of public health).
She has held positions in the profession of nursing service at the staff and supervisory levels in the Virgin Islands, Minnesota and Maryland. However, most of her career has been in nursing education, where she has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Nunez was first on the faculty at the University of Maryland and continued her career in nursing education at the College of the Virgin Islands, now the University of the Virgin Islands. She served as Academic Dean of the St. Thomas Campus and is currently a professor of nursing.
 Dr. Nunez is the daughter of a well-known Virgin Islands educator, the late Mrs. Teresita Nunez. Her own daughter, Marcella Nunez-Smith, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale University and Assistant Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
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