Director of Accreditation/Licensure & Regulatory Affairs
Kaiser Permanente-Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, CA
Conflict Management

Karen Sirski-Martin holds a Master's Degree in Nursing as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care and has a specialty in education. She has held such positions as Clinical Nurse/Critical Care, Clinical Supervisor Emergency Department/Urgent Care, Clinical Educator, Director of Critical Care/Emergency Department/Gastrointestinal Laboratory Services, House Supervisor, Director of Education , Director of Nursing, and Independent Nurse Consultant.

She has traveled as far as the Ukraine to assist in the Education of Missionary Nurses on ways and means to bring Health Care in a third world country to the 21st century.

Director of Education, Kaiser Permanente-San Diego
Marlene received her Nursing diploma from the Uniontown Hospital School of Nursing in Uniontown Pennsylvania in 1960. She began her nursing career holding staff nursing positions in obstetrics and operating room nursing from 1960 through 1968 at several San Diego hospitals including: Mercy Hospital, Villa View, College Park, and Kaiser Foundation. In 1968 she became the Director of Nursing Education at Kaiser Foundation Hospital. The job and title have changed over the years with added scope of responsibility, adding patient education in the early 80''''s, research in the mid 80''''s and finally in 1994 changing the title to Director of Education and Consulting Services for all areas  of staff education from MD to Environmental Services. She also returned to academia and obtained a BSN and MA in Education from San Diego State University in 1975 and 1979 respectively. While working at Kaiser Foundation she has taught at many of the academic programs in the community and has served or had representatives from her department on most of their advisory boards. She is co-developer of the SD Consortium for the placement of all nursing students clinical experience. Marlene coordinated and teaches in the Nursing NCLEX review for the San Diego Welcome Back Program.

Active in professional groups, Marlene is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, The Association of California Nurse Leaders and the National Nursing Staff Development Organization. In the community she actively supports the United Way and YWCA organizations.

Morris Eagleman served in the U.S. Air force during the Viet Nam war.  After the military he began college obtaining a BSN and MBA.  He has over 25 years of management and administrative experience in health care.  For the past 7 years he has served as Vice President of Patient Care Services at Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta.

A UCLA alumnus with a BA in biomedical illustration and then tenured as university cartographer, Noel Diaz transitioned into the health care field with his completion in 1995 of the Loma Linda University allied health BS and credential program, specializing in health information administration.  From long-term care settings to the acute care hospital environment, he has served over the last dozen years both as health information management director and continuous process improvement coordinator.  Still wearing two hats at the same time, he is fully engaged today at Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara as both health information services director and privacy officer.

Noel gravitated towards a health care occupation following a two-year German language study program at the University of Vienna, Austria, where, as an extracurricular activity, he tutored non-German-speaking Asian overseas nurses in medical terminology and basic computer skills.  He is a long-standing active member of AHIMA and CHIA, currently volunteering as mentor to aspiring students and focusing on seminar design and planning.  Locally, he is on the advisory board for the Santa Barbara City College HIT program.

Jill Tregor is the Director of the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center for the Interior Bay Region, which is hosted at City College of San Francisco.  Jill has worked as an advocate, educator, trainer, and facilitator in the public health field since 1987, focusing primarily on issues of inter group relations, women's health, and social justice.

Her previous work includes positions as the Director of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood Association of San Mateo County, and as the Executive Director of Intergroup Clearinghouse, an organization which provided assistance to victims of hate motivated violence and worked to address and eliminate such violence through advocacy, public policy, community organizing, and education.  She directed the San Francisco site of a federally funded pilot project aimed at addressing the intersection of domestic violence and child maltreatment, coordinating collaboration between child protective services, Family Courts, batterer intervention services, and domestic violence service organizations.

Most recently she was the Senior Policy Analyst for Domestic Violence Policies and Programs for the City and County of San Francisco.  Jill received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Women's Studies of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her Masters Degree in Public Health/Community Health Education from San Francisco State University.

Specialist in General Vocationl Education with the California Commumity Colleges Chancellor's Office.

Kathy is the Grant Monitor for the Nursing and Allied Health Unit.

Valerie Fisher joined College of the Sequoias as Director of the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center the Fall of 2008. She has a unique background in grant management, program development, health education and 20 years working as a registered nurse (ER/Trauma/Flight Nursing). Valerie has worked for MedAir, San Mateo County Office of Education, the Private Industry Council of San Luis Obispo, the California Transplant Donor Network, and most recently with the Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto. She is a native Californian and received her RN from Saddleback College (1978), her BA from John F. Kennedy University (1996), and her MA from Holy Names College in Oakland (1998). In her leisure Valerie enjoys music, nature, and travel.