Sarah is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 40 years of experience with a BSN from Syracuse University and an MSN and Family Nurse Practitioner certification from UCSF/UCSD. She started her career as a nurse on a bone marrow transplant and cancer unit in San Francisco. After becoming an NP, her focus has been family primary care with an international focus, having lived and worked overseas as a Health Educator in a refugee camp in Sudan, Peace Corps Medical Officer, and American Embassy Medical Provider in various countries around the world.

Sarah has been providing health care to Palomar College students as the health center Nurse Practitioner for the last six years and has discovered a new passion in doing so…providing informative health care to a diverse group of young adults facing life’s challenges.  Sarah’s interests outside of the office include exploring and traveling to “off the beat and track” places in the world, hiking, cycling, swimming, and skiing, and loves music and art.

Sarah is now looking forward to her new role as the Interim Student Health Services Director.  She officially began in her role May 15, 2024, and will serve until we can recruit and fill the position permanently in 2025.