Loretta J. Throop, Athabascan

Director, 2008-present
Ms. Throop has had a long career in health care, including serving as a U.S. Public Health Service nurse, a community health aide instructor, a youth and family counselor, and a school nurse and nurse mentor for the Anchorage School District. In the 1970s, she helped write the guidelines for primary health care in rural Alaska.