Catherine Garner, Dean of Health Professions at American Sentinel, is one of nursing’s greatest innovators. She helped to found the specialty of Infertility Nursing, becoming the first international in vitro fertilization nurse coordinator.  She created the United State’s first not-for-profit Women’s Research Center for one of the nation’s largest heath care systems, Hospital Corporation of America.  She wrote the first textbook on menopause and founded the nation’s first Menopause/ Women’s Health Center at Northwestern Medical Center.  She established the first OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner Education Program and the first private hospital in Honduras.  Her program has since been replicated throughout Central America. 

Dean Garner comes to American Sentinel University from the International University of Nursing on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts/ Nevis, where she was Provost / Dean of an international nursing program. She is a graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship Program and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She has been a consultant in Central America, the People’s Republic of China, Germany and Canada.

Education

Dr. P.H., in Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina

M.S. in Nursing, Vanderbilt University

M.P.A., Public Administration, University of Tennessee

B.S. in Nursing, Vanderbilt University