Candace Campbell, MSN-HCSM, CNS, RN

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Phone: 925-207-1376

Film: Micropremature Babies: How Low Can You Go?

Books: My  Mom Is A Nurse and Good Things Come In Small Packages (I  Was A Preemie)

An Oregon native, Candace Campbell came to the nursing profession through a  circuitous route. After earning a BA in Speech Communications/Theatre, and working as a flight attendant for Pan American World Airways, she had a career  epiphany one day  en route to Karachi, Pakistan from New Delhi, India, and decided to become a nurse. She has been a practicing  Neonatal nurse for nearly 20 years. Candy (as her friends call her) received her Neonatal Certificate and specialty training in California at Loma Linda University Medical Center, where she gained experience working with neonatal heart transplant cases. Prior her work in the Neonatology, Candace worked as a Labor and Delivery nurse and educator, as well as an ER/ICU/CCU nurse. Her nursing career began in Psychiatry, working with many Vietnam Vets at the VA Hospital in L.A. That experience led to research within the medical community about PTSD, and the affects of working in a war zone. The result later became a film script and a novel called Walking Point (to be released in 2010).

Currently, Ms. Campbell continues to work part time in a level 3 NICU while pursuing her other creative interests, including writing, speaking, acting, painting, and finding new ways to annoy her children. Candace is a card-carrying member of several associations, mainly beginning with the letter “a,” including the ANA, ASCAP, AFTRA, ANN, ASOPA and ACHE. She is also the proud mother of three hard-working young adults.

Candace has appeared on  ABC, CBS, CNN, COX and CRN radio networks speaking on prematurity and related topics. She is currently collaborating on a book for parents of premature babies with UCSF Neonatologist, Robert Piecuch, slated for release in 2010.

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