Throughout her 24-year career, Kelly has maintained a commitment to patients and a focus on leadership and professionalism. She has served as a staff nurse in cardiac intensive care and cardiac rehabilitation. Additionally, she assisted in developing Corporate Health NW, a nurse practitioner-operated clinic that provided primary health care and education to employees of a major corporation. In 2007, she established Healthcare Professionals of Portland. Kelly is president and owner of a nurse-operated corporation that provides primary healthcare, advocacy, health consultation and coordination of care to clients from birth to death. This community model was developed to increase the quality and safety of client care by creating a focused and intimate client relationship ensuring accurate and centralized 24/7 holistic care. Kelly has been a member of Sigma Theta Tau and an adjunct instructor at the University of Portland since 2009. She is a 1990 graduate of the University of Portland and received her master’s from the University of Washington, focal area, nurse educator. In her free time, you can find Kelly on the baseball field. She has coached baseball for six years and has served four years on the Wilshire Riverside Little League Board as president and tournament director.