Medical Officer - LCDR Vanessa Hadley, Hometown: Chicago, IL

LCDR Hadley is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a Commissioned Officer with U.S. Public Health Service assigned to the NOAA as a Medical Officer—she is very proud to call the Okeanos Explorer her duty station and home away from home. Vanessa spent years in the US Army as enlisted in the Quarter Master Corps and her last five as a Commissioned Officer in the Nurse Corps. She attended George Mason University for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing on an active duty scholarship and attended graduate school at UCLA where she received a Master of Science Degree in Nursing. Vanessa has worked for the VA as a Provider at an out- patient facility in Daytona Beach, FL and in the remote regions of Bethel & Barrow, Alaska where she had the privilege of teaching and working with medical providers in the Alaska Community Health Aide Program (CHAP). In the near future, Vanessa will be working on a PhD in Nursing in the field of remote medicine. Vanessa is always game to do something fun and unique! Her family lives in the Chicago area. Go Cubbies!!