She participates in the voluntary annual board recertification tests from ABOG, and various continuing education activities. She has severed as Department Chair several times. In 1994, Greg, Gina and their children Echo, Forest and Vale returned to the Flathead Valley permanently, and her solo practice was opened. She is a member of the Junior Classical league, Cum Laude, Phi Kappa Phi, is Board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), and is a Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology were conducted at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, concluding in 1994. There she received a community service award for work with pregnant teens. Medical school at the University of Utah in Salt Lake followed. She also studied the women's health movement as well as the particular challenges of keeping girls on track with math and science education, now called STEM.Īfter marrying fellow dorm mate Greg Nelson in 1983, she settled on a premedical curriculum and collected pre-med class requirements in Bozeman at MSU, obtaining a B.S.
She had the privilege of working with Professor Carl Djerassi, the “Father of the Pill”, on the issues surrounding the birth control pill's acceptability among feminists. Her area of concentration was “Women and Technology”, and within this she focused on reproductive technologies such as the oral contraceptive pill. Back before it was fashionable, the school recycled, required community service, and included yoga as well as competitive sports in PE.Īfter high school she attended Stanford University and studied Science, Technology and Society, a multidisciplinary program. It was also progressive, deliberately imbuing students with the mandate to make the world a better place. It was "old school" in its academic emphasis with paper writing, Shakespeare and Latin for all. Nelson was raised in the Los Angeles area and attended a college preparatory school called Chadwick Academy. She considers herself a blend of all these.
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