Donna earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She has been involved in immunization practice as a public health nurse in New Mexico, a state nurse consultant for 4 years in South Carolina, and now as a nurse educator at CDC for more than 10 years. She was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development and the Chief Nurse Officer Award for Public Health Service. Donna travels throughout the U.S. providing immunization information to healthcare providers, publishes articles on immunization in nursing literature, and works on a variety of immunization training and education programs at CDC.