Damon Cottrell, RN, MS, CCRN, CCNS, ACNS-BC, CEN, begins a one-year term as
chair-elect of the AACN Certification Corporation Board of Directors effective July
1, 2009. He has held numerous prominent local and national positions with the
association since 1999 and served on the AACN Certification Corporation Board of
Directors from 2006 to 2009.
Cottrell -- assistant professor, college of health professions, department of
nursing, University of New England, Portland, Maine -- enjoys a nursing career that
spans 20 years. A clinical nurse specialist and director of nursing at Washington
Hospital Center's coronary care unit and rapid response team, Washington, D.C.,
since 2006, he served as clinical nurse specialist at Providence Health System,
St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Ore., from 2005 to 2006; and Texas Health
Resources, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas from 2000 to 2005. Staff nurse positions
in acute and critical care include Baylor Healthcare System, Dallas, from 1989 to
1990 and Baptist Healthcare System, San Antonio, Texas from 1988 to 1989.
Cottrell is completing a doctorate of nursing practice at Robert Morris University.
In 2008 he received the "100 Extraordinary Nurses" Award from the Honor Society of
Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. He earned bachelor and master of science
degrees in nursing from Texas Woman's University, Dallas, in 1997 and 1999
respectively. He holds national certification in critical care and emergency
nursing and as a clinical nurse specialist. Cottrell lives in Arlington, Va.
