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cjmontoya@salud.unm.edu
272-8875
Rm. 231

Carolyn Montoya is currently the Coordinator of the Family Nurse Practitioner Concentration at the University of New Mexico (UNM), College of Nursing and starting in the Fall of 2006 will be the Coordinator for the new Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Concentration. She was a faculty member at the College of Nursing from 1983 to 1988 before returning to practice full time as a Nurse Practitioner for three years. Ms. Montoya then returned to teach at the College of Nursing at UNM and has been a faculty member for the past 15 years. Ms. Montoya received her Bachelor of Science Degree from the College of Nursing at UNM and her Master’s Degree in Nursing from Yale University. Her area of specialty is as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and she maintains national certification through the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board. In addition to her academic duties Ms. Montoya has maintained a continuous clinical practice at Pediatric Health Services in Albuquerque. She has been active with the New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council for several years serving two terms as President of the Council. Currently she serves as a member of their Board of Directors. She was selected as the outstanding nurse practitioner for the state of New Mexico in 1995. Ms. Montoya was elected as a State Affiliate representative for the national organization, the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP), in the Spring of 1997 and was elected President of ACNP for 2001-2002. In 2001 Ms. Montoya was selected as a Fellow for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Primary Care Policy Fellowship. Her current focus of interest is in the area of childhood overweight. She is a member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) Healthy Eating and Activity Together (HEAT) Steering Work Group. This work group developed the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identifying and Preventing Overweight in Childhood that was published by NAPNAP in March of 2006.