Biography

Barbara Demman (she/her/hers) is a board certified acute care nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist.  Her twenty years of nursing clinical experience has ranged from large urban academic teaching hospitals in varying specialties to small community health international centers.  She herself is a Bruin alumna from her masters nursing program and has been working at UCLA School of Nursing for 18 years. She currently serves as hospice nurse practitioner, lecturer at UCLA School of Nursing, and educator for Kaplan Inc.  

Barbara’s passion for global health concerns has paved the way for extensive international nursing work extending from the Caribbean, Africa, to South East Asia.  Most recently, she works with Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative training Ghanaian nurses. This program has successfully implemented the first ever-nursing certification program within Ghana.

In her spare time Barbara enjoys being with her husband, dog, family, and friends, traveling, and fire dancing…. that was until her daughter was born, now she loves chasing her around the house trying to keep destruction and chaos at a minimum inside their home.