AMY Consulting
13916 Kirkland Ridge
Edmond,
OK
USA
73013
Email:
adelineyerkes@adelineyerkes.com
Biographical Sketch:
Mrs. Yerkes has over 40 years of experiences in community health from school nursing, visiting nursing, case management of children with special needs, occupational nursing, public health nursing and to public health adminstration. During her years of experience developed expertise in areas of clinical guidelines/protocol development, community assessment and planning, case management and care coordination, grant writing, and program development and evaluation.
For the last 25 years served in an administrative capacity with the Oklahoma State Department of Health as the Chief of Chronic Disease where she planned and implemented chronic disease prevention programs with the assistance of a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals. In this capacity she was appointed to serve as the Oklahoma Liaison for Women’s Health reporting to the US DHHS Office on Women’s Health from 1995 through 2009. She retired from this position in 2008.
She has numerous publications in various areas of health: aging and community mobilization, public health perspective of urinary incontinence, diabetes, mortality of chronic disease, and monographs on various chronic diseases.
She is currently serving as a private consultant in health systems specializing in the area of women’s health issues; quality improvement and evaluation of health systems; developing grant proposals with an emphasis on improving health status of women and their families; establishing a statewide health agenda for women and their families; and as an ambassador for the Heart’s Truth.
She has been recognized by several organizations: Lawton Jaycettes, Edmond Charter Chapter, and the Oklahoma Governor’s Council on Children recognized her community organization skills; and she has been recognized for her public health leadership skills by American Diabetes Association, Centers for Disease Control, Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Central Oklahoma Integrate Network Systems Region VI Alliance on Women’s Health and the US Postal Service Oklahoma City Area.
Goodman, R, Larsen, B, Marmet, P, Yerkes, A, et al. “The Public Health Role in the Primary Prevention of Diabetes: Recommendations from the Chronic Disease Director’s Project” J Public Health Management and Practice, Jan/Feb 2008:14:15-25
Yerkes, Adeline, Urinary Incontinence in Individuals with Diabetes, Diabetes Spectrum, Vol 11(4), 241-247, 1998.