Kathleen Arnold
Happy Valley, OR
Kathy has over 40 years of nursing, with clinical, administrative and leadership experience. Over the course of her career she was on the ground floor of the first home Hospice program in the Portland area. She provided care, planning and leadership during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, working with the Tri-Country Health Departments and the Oregon State Health Division. She worked with local NGO’s developing and implementing numerous community educational and support programs for those living with AIDS in her community. Kathy retired from Kaiser Permanente NW after 17 years of managing and operationalizing large NIH and private industry clinical trials, building functional research teams and managing multi-million dollar budgets.
Honors and Awards
- Oregon Nurses Association District One Visiting Nurse Association Nurse of the Year
- Delta Epsilon National Nursing Honor Society
- Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine Clinical Instructor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Special Assignments
- Oregon HIV/AIDS Policy Committee, Oregon State Health division
- HIV Services Planning Council, Multnomah County Oregon
- Regional HIV Case management Partnership Project
- Board Member Cascade AIDS Project
- Member Ecumenical Ministries HIV Day Center start-up Operations Team
- Program for Ethics Consultant Fellow, Legacy Portland Hospitals
Kathy is a graduate from the University of Portland with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with honors.
