SCHOLAR DIRECTORY

Angie Powers is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who works here at West Roxbury in Primary Care Behavior Health. She began her career in the Army over 24 years ago, enlisting in 1993 as a Combat Medic and later becoming a Nurse after attending The Army’s Nursing Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Angie rose through the enlisted ranks to Sergeant First Class and served a number of years as a Drill Sergeant training new enlisted recruits at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. After becoming a commissioned officer in 2007, she commanded a Company instructing new cadets, at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. Angie has multiple deployments that include support of Operational Iraqi Freedom and a Humanitarian deployment to El Salvador in support of Task Force New Hope. Captain Powers continues to serve in the Army Reserves as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at the Combat Stress Detachment of the 804th Medical Brigade here in Devens, MA.

I obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University, where I majored in both Politics and History and graduated magna cum laude with Honors in History distinction. During my undergraduate career, I achieved the following honors and awards: Wake Forest University Hankins Scholar, Spires Grant for Individualized Instruction and Collaborative Effort, WC Pearson Award for Excellence in Research, and Thomas K. Hearn Scholarship for White House Service. I pursued my graduate studies at Yale University, where I received my nursing diploma and graduated with my Masters of Science in Nursing, graduating with Honors. After graduation, I became a Certified Nurse Midwife. My first position was in New Orleans as a Program manager of a Family Planning Training Center. Once moving to North Carolina, I became both an adjunct faculty member at Western NC University and a Certified Nurse Midwife at the Mountain Area Health Education Center.

I am a Nurse practitioner currently specializing in colorectal surgery. I treat patients with a variety of diagnoses including: Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, colon cancer, rectal cancer and anal cancer. I currently attending Stony Brook University to obtain my DNP degree. While i have many interests, I am very interested in how environmental factors, such as water contamination, on the incidence of colon cancer. Other interests include wound, ostomy and continence and ways to improve patient outcomes. I earned my BS in Nursing from Long Island University with the honor designation of magna cum laude and a MS in Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP at Adelphi University. Previously worked in ICU, cardiac step-down, ICU step-down and PACU. Prior to becoming a RN, I was a clinical microbiologist for 10 years.