Board of Directors

President (Exp 2008)

Sandra Pittman, PhD, RNC - smpittman@mcg.edu

Sandra is Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Perinatal Center , Medical College of Georgia, Augusta , Georgia .  She directs the Enterprise Community Healthy Start Initiative and is faculty sponsor of the Robert Wood Johnson Covering Kids and Families Augusta Pilot Project and the abstinence education project, Your Life, Your Time, Your Future.   Her background includes instructor, nurse practitioner in women’s health, women’s health coordinator in Augusta Public Health District, and consultant.  Her research interest is evaluation of interventions impacting women’s and infant health.  She is currently serving a two-year term on HMHB Board and has served as GPA Public Policy Committee Chair since 2000.

Past President (Exp 2008)

Beth Lambertz-Guimaraes, MSN, RNC - lambertz-guima.elizabeth@mccg.org

Beth, a native of Wichita, Kansas, serves as Regional Perinatal Outreach Coordinator at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. A graduate of Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Beth has been a nurse in Obstetrics/Women's Health since 1975. She has served as a staff nurse and charge nurse in the Obstetric Unit at AMI/St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha, an Instructor of Maternal Child Health Nursing at Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health, Omaha, and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Outreach Coordinator at Creighton University ~ AMI/St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha before taking a position as staff nurse in the High Risk Antepartum Unit at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. While in California, Beth also served as Clinical Nurse Specialist in Maternal and Child Health at St. Luke's Hospital, San Francisco and Clinical Coordinator at San Francisco Center for Reproductive Medicine. In 1993, Beth and her husband moved to Sarasota, Florida to establish the Perinatal Center at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Since January, 1999, Beth has served as Regional Perinatal Outreach Coordinator at MCCG, Macon. Beth has assisted GPA to obtaining GNA approval for CEU's and CME's through the Mercer University School of Medicine, Department of CME for the annual conferences in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Perinatal Association.

President Elect (2007-2008)

W. Andrew Faucett, MS, CGC - afaucett@genetics.emory.edu

Secretary (Exp 2006)

Margaret B. (Peggy) Hotz, RN, MBA - photz@mindspring.com

Peggy has been involved in maternal and infant health for the past twenty-five years in the Atlanta area and recently in Knoxville, TN. During that time, she has actively supported the local chapter of AWHONN, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia, GPA, and the Atlanta Perinatal-Neonatal Education Consortium. Peggy has served on planning committees with various organizations in the area to provide educational opportunities for professional development, and community outreach education dealing with maternal, infant and women's health issues. She is currently Vice President for The Center for Women and Children's Health at The University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, TN.  In addition to the previously mentioned affiliations, she is a member of, AONE, TONE, ACHE, ETHEA, EMBARK Advisory Board for the Coles School of Business EMBA Alumni Association, and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for HMHB. She has served as Secretary to the GPA Board for the past nine years as well as chaired several committees.

Treasurer (Exp 2007)

George Bugg, MD - George_Bugg@oz.ped.emory.edu

George is a practicing neonatologist in the Atlanta area, and has served GPA ably as treasurer for the past five years.

Board Members (Exp 2010)

Ann Addison. CNM

krisaddison@charter.net                                                                                                               

Jeanne Anderson, RN

Janean.anderson@tiftregional.co                                                                                                             

Julie Duncan, LC

Julie.duncan@piedmont.org                                                                               

Dan Eller, MD

dr.eller@comcast.net 

Judith Galter, RN, MSN, CRNP                                                                                         

judi@JGCRNP.com 

Mary Beth Salin, BASW, BS

msalin@gwinnettmedicalcenter.org

Board Members (Exp 2009)

Nancy Morris, RN, MSN, MPH

lewnan@mchsi.com

Jo Ellen McDonough

jemcdonough@mccg.edu

Rose Marie Newman, RD

Newman0950@comcast.net

 Tracey Easterling, RN

Easterling.Tracey@mccg.org

Phyllis Pemerton, RN, MBA

ppemerton@floyd.org

Judy Layden, BSN

laydenju1@memorialhealth.com

Lynne Witherspoon RN, BSN

lwitherspoon@SGHS.org

Board Members (Exp 2008)

Luella Steil, RNC, MSN

luellasteil@gmail.com

Patricia Allen, RN, MSN

pwallen@nghs.com

Terri Negron, RN, MN, FNP

terri.negron@wellstar.org

Donna Crick, RN

dcrick1@cox.net  

Bonnie Simmons

bjs@canes.gsw.edu

Diane Youmans, RNC, MSN

youmadi1@memorialhealth.com

Brenda Lawler

brenda.lawler@TRMC.com

Ex-Officio

Jim Schwartz

schwartzhouse14@aol.com

Gwen Houldsworth, MPH 

GHouldsworth@marchofdimes.com

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