Dana Palmer, BMRPT, DPT

CNMI Diabetes Prevention & Control Program
Box 500409CK
(670) 664-4030
Saipan, MP, CNMI Saipan 96950
Email: mcfaddendana@gmail.com

Biographical Sketch:
Employment: 2004-2009 -- Physical Therapist -- Commonwealth Health Center -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands Committees: 2009 -- Planning & Development Committee for Diabetes Prevention Clinic -- Marianas Health Services -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 2007-2009 -- Client Services & Care Committee -- Commonwealth Diabetes Coalition -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands Presentations/Lectures: 2008-2009 -- Lecturer: Wound Assessment & Wound Care -- Loyola University Nursing Program -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 2006-2009 -- Lecturer: Wound Assessment & Wound Care -- Northern Marianas College Nursing Program -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands November 2008 -- Presenter at 2008 Pacific Health Care Conference -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. September 2008 -- Presenter: Effectiveness of a Preliminary Foot Care Program in Reducing the Rate of Diabetes-related Lower-extremity Amputations in the CNMI -- Pacific Diabetes Summit -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands November 2007 -- Presenter at 2007 Pacific Health Care Conference -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands Yearly presenter 2005 - 2008 for CNMI Nursing Week -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands Multiple presentations to healthcare providers on multi-disciplinary wound care and foot clinic set-up throughout the Mariana Islands Publications: 2009 -- Limb Preservation Across the Pacific: Clinical decision-making for the wound care practitioner and multi-disciplinary diabetic foot clinic. -- Training manual developed for educational & practical training in Marshall Islands -- Printed by Diabetes Prevention & Control Program -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 2007 -- So You've Got a Wound: Clinical decision-making for the wound care practitioner. -- Training manual developed for educational and practical training in Tinian & Rota, Northern Mariana Islands -- Printed by Diabetes Prevention & Control Program -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 2005 -- Diabetic Foot Care -- Patient and health care provider educational booklet developed for use in the Saipan Diabetic Foot Clinic -- Printed by Diabetes Prevention & Control Program -- Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands