Immediate Past Chair

Julie Foster
MSN, FNP

Julie Foster is the Founder, Business Owner, and Medical Director of Pohala: A Place of Healing, a multidisciplinary Integrative Primary Care and IV Therapy Clinic.

Culminating 32 years of Nursing and Integrative Medicine, she is both board certified in Family and Anthroposophic Medicine with extensive training in Mistletoe Therapy and Integrative Oncology.

As a 6th generation Oregonian born and raised in Portland she is Native Hawaiian through her father’s lineage. She is dedicated to preserving indigenous spiritual and cultural practices.

Julie has served on the Nurse Practitioners of Oregon/ Nurse Practitioner Owner/ Executive Board for several years as well as a panelist for the Oregon Health Authority for the Patient Centered Primary Care Home initiatives. She is passionate about Nurse Practitioners practicing to their full extent of their professional license, especially as Business Owners.

Chair

Larlene Dunsmuir
DNP, FNP, ANP-BC

As a professional NP, I value the role that NPO has played throughout my career, in advocating for our profession and the patients we serve. It has been an honor to serve in a variety of roles with other NP leaders in the state and I look forward to further experience and opportunity with this wonderful organization.

We are fortunate to practice in a state with Full Practice Authority, Prescriptive Authority, and Payment Parity (what I call 'The Triple Crown') but I don't take for granted that our broad scope is a guarantee. We need strong leadership within NPO to make sure that we continue to practice at the top of our scope and without arbitrary barriers for our patients.

Treasurer

L. Alison Lyon
DNP, APRN, NP-C, ACHPN

While I am a new member to NPO, I am excited to get involved. When I lived in Arkansas I was an active member of Arkansas Nurse
Practitioenrs Association and a student member in North Texas NPs and Texas NPs. Now that things have slowed down a bit with the pandemic, I want to jump in to NPO with both feet!

Secretary

Frances Robbins
PMHNP-BC

Bio coming soon.

Nominating Committee Chair

Vacant

Education Committee Chair

Nancy Ronan
DNP

NPO’s Education Committee Chair Nancy Ronan, DNP, MSN, BSN, BA, FNP, RN, has been involved in nursing education and professional development for her entire career. As staff development officer, then chief of nursing of Portland’s Air Force Reserves, she became passionate about identifying areas of educational need and using a team-based approach to address them.

Her current work includes caring for her own panel of approximately 2,000 birth-to-geriatric patients at Adventist Medical Group in Portland. She also works part-time providing care for acute, chronic and urgent needs at Adventist Urgent Care. In addition, Nancy provides weekly on-site assessments and care for minimum to maximum security prisoners at Columbia County Jail in St. Helens, Oregon.

Professional Practice Committee Co-Chair

Karen Greco
PhD, RN, ANP-BD, FAAN, FAANP
She/Her

Karen Greco is a primary care nurse practitioner with specialties in gerontology and genomics. She has a Masters in Nursing and a PhD from OHSU. Karen has chaired the NPO Professional Practice Committee since 2020. She previously chaired Practice Committees for two other national/international nursing organizations and has experience addressing advanced practice issues. Karen is also a West Coast Swing dancer, likes to cook, and plays guitar and banjo.  

Membership Committee Chair

Jackie Sammons
MS, APRN, FNP-C

Bio Coming Soon.

Independent Practice and business Owners Committee Co-Chair

Tori Mercado-Rumrey
FNP
She/Her

Tori lives in southern Oregon with her wife and children. She started as a CNA in a nursing home at 16 and has worked in nursing ever since. She earned her nursing degree from Rogue Community College, her first masters in nursing education from Walden University, and her second masters from Gonzaga University. Tori opened her primary care practice in Grants Pass in 2016. She enjoys family practice, specifically the care of underserved populations.

Health Policy Committee Chair

Shelby Lee Freed
DNP, FNP-BC

Shelby has been a Family Nurse Practitioner since 2011 and has spent her career serving in Federally Qualified Health Centers in Massachusetts and Oregon. She moved to Oregon in 2016 and has been at OHSU since 2018. She graduated with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from OHSU in 2021. Shelby is passionate about health equity and policy and how this influences patient care and nursing education. When not practicing as a nurse, Shelby spends most of her time outdoors hiking or running and with her family and rescue pugs.