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Susan Guin, MSN, CRNP
Susan Guin, M.S.N., C.R.N.P., Instructor of Community and Rural Medicine, is Associate Director of the Rural Medical Scholars Program. She also serves as associate director for the department’s other Rural Health Programs, which include the Rural Health Scholars Program for 11th graders, the Minority Rural Health Pipeline, Alabama Agromedicine Program, and related activities. Guin, a certified registered nurse practitioner, sees patients in the Occupational Medicine clinic at the University Medical Center (UMC) and previously served as nurse practitioner in the family medicine suite and the faculty-staff clinic at UMC.
She earned her B.S.N. from the UA Capstone College of Nursing and her master’s degree in Nursing from UAB. She was awarded the UA Alumni Association Graduate Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in 1996. Guin’s hospital nursing experience includes surgical intensive care, emergency department, and critical care, for which she served as Charge Nurse at DCH. She in an American Heart Association instructor of CPR and first aid. Guin is a member of a number of professional associations and committees including the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American College of Nurse Practitioners, National Rural Health Association, National AgriSafe Network, Alabama Primary Healthcare Association, West Alabama Nurse Practitioner Council, and the University Medical Center Nurse Practitioner Committee. She has made presentations on occupational medicine topics and farm safety precautions and contributed to research articles on supplying physicians and health practitioners to rural areas.
In October, 2006, Guin coordinated the 19th Annual Meeting of the North American Agromedicine Consortium (NAAC), an interdisciplinary group affiliated with the International Association of Agricultural Medicine & Rural Health. She was elected NAAC President 2006 after serving a three-year term on the board. Agromedicine is a partnership of health and agricultural professionals which promotes the health and safety of agricultural producers and workers, their families, and consumers of agricultural products. NAAC is devoted to the programmatic teamwork of land grant and medical universities and their partners, addressing the health and safety concerns of agriculture, including forestry and fisheries, and others in rural communities by a combination of the sciences of agriculture and medicine.
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