Women’s Health Care Clinic Education Program
Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program
CA BRN Continuing Education Provider #30
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Medical Director
Most of Dr. Nelson’s research efforts have been in the areas of contraception, memopause, and gynecologic infection. She is principal investigator or investigator on several NIH/NICHHD grants as well as commercially funded studies. She is a co-investigator on the Women’s Health Initiative. She has written more than forty articles for professional journals. She is an author of Managing Contraception and Contraceptive Technology Update. She writes articles and health columns for many women’s magazines. She is frequently interviewed by the media. She lectures extensively on a variety of women’s health care issues. Dr. Nelson received a B.A. in Economics from Occidental College in Los Angeles and a B.S. in Biology from the University of California in Irvine. She received her M.D. degree from the UCLA School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency training here at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Under Kim’s strong leadership the nurse practitioner program is evolving into the Women’s Health Care Clinic Education Program providing CE opportunities throughout the year.
FACULTY & CLINICAL PRECEPTOR Ellen Schmidt-Olaivar, RNC, RNP, MSN
As a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner, Ellen has worked in family planning clinics, private physician offices in both South Central and East Los Angeles and hospital-based medical centers providing high-risk obstetrics care. She continues to teach in both the El Camino RN program and our Education Program and Ellen has become our resident Clinical Preceptor for Student Nurse Practitioners of UCLA, CSUF and CSUDH. Ellen Joined our faculty in April 1997. "I love having the opportunity to teach nurse practitioner students and watch as they evolve and grow into the NP Role. I remember admiring the nurse practitioner (Karen Young Dodge), who provided my health care and dreaming of one day becoming a nurse practitioner myself. Teaching has been an honor and a passionate journey in my still working health care career." STAFF Lynnette R. Short
Her computer training began in 1969 at Mount San Antonio Jr College in Walnut, CA taking Colbalt and Keypunch (on an 029 IBM Keypunch machine) making the punch cards for those early day room size computers. In 1973 she was fortunate enough to travel to Thailand as Import/Export Vice President of her family’s company located in Bangkok. Where she also attended night school to learn to read, write and speak Thai. After returning to the States she attended The Southern California Credit Managers Association’s credit/collections classes as well as ADP's payroll and accounts payable classes. In 1990 when her son began Kindergarten she began a journey in volunteering with the Long Beach Unified School District as a VIP. As well as various PTA positions and School Site Council participation. LBUSD sent her to conferences to learn to put together conferences for Parent Education, after 2 LBUSD Parent Education Conferences and representing LBUSD on the State Education Curriculum Compliance Committee in Sacramento she became the Chairperson for the District wide school site council (CECAC). As her son entered Lakewood High School she said good bye to her life of volunteering and re-entered the workforce. Continuing with certificate classes in Excel, Creating Websites, Access and Adobe while working at LA BioMed. "I am still amazed every day that I am lucky enough to be able to work with someone as awe inspiring as Dr. Nelson as well as someone as giving and nurturing as Ellen Schmidt-Olaivar, NP extraordinaire. I am lucky to be able to still learn something new each day of my life. I actually enjoy hearing from our Graduates as each one of them holds a special place in my heart and I cannot begin to tell you how much working with each class has meant to me. They each still have that thing that makes my heart smile." |
Dr. Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California in Los Angeles. She is Medical Director of the Women’s Health Care Clinic and WHCNPP now known as Women’s Health Care Clinic Education Program at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. She is the Program Director of Women's Health Care Teams for the Coastal County Health Centers in the County of Los Angeles. She is also the Medical Director for the Research Division of the California Family Health Council in Los Angeles.
Kim earned her Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing at Texas Woman’s University at the Parkland Medical Center in Dallas. She is a graduate of the LAC/USC Nurse Midwifery program. Her experience includes Planned Parenthood Los Angeles as Associate Director of Clinical Programs. Ms. Burtle has been the Director of Clinical Services at the Women’s Health Care Clinic since January 2002 and is delighted to be the Director of Education.
A nurse practitioner for the past seventeen years, Ellen is a Class 76 alumnus (in 1992) of the WHCNPP. Ellen earned her Master’s degree at CSULB. Her undergraduate work was done at the University of Hawaii, where she participated in cancer research in the School of Medicine. Ellen holds a unique background, having worked as an Occupational Therapy assistant for ten years in the areas of special education, recreation and rehabilitation at the Rehab Institute of the Pacific. The rehab Center provided care to patients of the U.S. Territorial Pacific Basin Islands. 
Lynnette joined our staff in November 2000. After graduating from Upland High School in 1964 with Business Machines and College Prep courses, Lynnette went to work in a "one girl office" and that began 33 years of various office jobs ranging from Receptionist to an Administrative Assistant to both a CEO and a Vice Chairman of the Butcher’s Union. She worked as a Customer Service Representative/Data Entry Clerk, an Invoicing/Inventory Clerk as well as a Production Secretary which was one of her favorite positions at Potlatch Forests, Inc., Dairy Service Operations in Pomona, CA.