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Kenneth Sullivan

I enlisted in the Air Force following graduation and was trained in communications. I deployed to Thailand during the Vietnam War. After four years of active duty, I transitioned to the RI Air National Guard and entered college. I subsequently graduated from from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1978.

Shortly thereafter, I accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army and retired from the Air Guard as a Technical Sergeant. I served most of the next 18 years in the Army Nurse Corps. I was trained as an OR nurse and also worked as an Infection Control Nurse as well as the Nurse Manager for hospital central services. My career took me to Texas, Germany, Saudi Arabia/Iraq and Korea. During the first Gulf War, I was in one of only three Combat Support Hospitals that went into Iraq. I was the 8th Medical Command's Infection Control consultant while in Korea. I was in charge of Central Services at Brooke Army Medical Center when I retired as a Major from the Army in 1995.

The next twenty years was mostly a career in managed care. I worked as nurse case manager in catastrophic pediatrics, as a transplant case manager and as a nurse manager. I am a Certified Case Manager (CCM). I returned to school to pursue an MBA in 2009 and graduated from Ashford University in 2011.

I stay very active. I swim 4 to 6 miles a week. Play tennis at least 3 times a week. Did I mention that I am also a bit of gym rat. I love the movies and see upwards of 40 films a year. I am always up to date on current events and try to read a least 10 books a year.

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