Diana Webber

Diana Webber is a Family Nurse Practitioner who truly practices holistic care and demonstrates great compassion for all of her clients, most especially for those who are underserved.

 In October of 2008, Diana realized her dream of starting a free clinic in her rural hometown of Atoka, OK; the Hope Medical Clinic is a non-profit free clinic for those who are uninsured. She searched the literature and any other helpful contacts she could find in order to learn what she would need in order to implement this, and found a great deal of local support for this clinic. She had applied for and was accepted into a mentorship program through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She also submitted an abstract and was accepted for a poster presentation for that same organization’s national conference in June of 2008 “Set Your Sights on Establishing a Free Clinic”.

 She was an invited speaker at the Oklahoma Public Health Association annual conference “Humanitarian Medical Outreach Projects” in March 2008, as well as at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing Nurse Practitioner Alumni Conference “Humanitarian Medical Outreach: Global and Local Communities” in May 2008. She also volunteers once a month at Crossings Clinic in Oklahoma City which is a free clinic.

 Diana has been volunteering for medical mission trips for many years during which she not only provides health care for local native people but at the same time mentors both medical and nursing students. In 2008 she volunteered for several medical mission trips: Mexico in 1/08; Peru in 3/08; assisted with an orphanage in Quito Ecuador in 5/08; and a mission trip to Nicaragua in 8/08. In her hometown she is a Spanish translator for the local hospital ER when needed. Her regular employment is working as a Nurse Practitioner with a pediatric Latino population in an Oklahoma City clinic, and in Durant with obstetric Hispanic patients.

 I cannot imagine an individual who is more deserving of recognition than Diana Webber. I have seen her interact with her patients, and she is truly caring and professional in every sense; she is an inspiration to other nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and any student in a health care profession. Her talent, energy, and enthusiasm for giving of herself are simply in her nature.