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Louise A. Anderson, MSN, RN, Nursing Division director and director of operations for the Vigo County Health Department in Terre Haute, Ind., will be honored for her contributions to public health with the 2004 Executive Director’s Citation. She will receive the award at the 132nd American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Anderson has 15 years of experience in public health at both the local and state health department levels. She also has more than 15 years of experience in hospital nursing at the educator, management and staff levels. Her practice areas have included general medical-surgical, emergency room and progressive coronary care. She has worked as an educator in beginning nursing skills for university nursing students and also as a continuing education teacher.
Her nursing career began in 1970 when she worked as a staff nurse and an emergency room charge nurse for St. Joseph Hospital in Huntingburg, Ind. She also worked at Union Hospital in Terre Haute, at the Indiana State University School of Nursing and the Indiana Department of Health.
Anderson’s professional volunteer activities include working as a YMCA women’s adult fitness camp nurse, assisting Hospice of the Wabash Valley and as a reviewer the Indiana State Nurses Association Continuing Education in Nursing Program for almost 20 years. She also was a curriculum reviewer for the University of Minnesota School of Nursing’s National Public Health Training Network satellite broadcast. Among her many awards, Anderson received the Indiana State University School of Nursing Outstanding Alumnae award and was included in the current United Who’s Who directory.
Her professional affiliations include membership in the Indiana State Nurses Association and as president-elect of the Indiana Public Health Association. She chairs APHA’s Committee on Affiliates and has served the Association in countless ways, including as chair of the Great Lakes Coalition, as Indiana representative to the Governing Council, as a member of the Task Force on Association Improvement and Reorganization and as coordinator for the Committee on Affiliates’ poster contest at the APHA Annual Meeting. Anderson was also instrumental in working with APHA, the CoA and Affiliates in developing a plan that will guide the future of the Association’s relationship with its state and local Affiliates.
In addition to her professional contributions, Anderson serves on the board of directors for the United Way of the Wabash Valley and is a member and past officer of the League of Women Voters.
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