Board-certified Family Nurse-Practitioner
Northern Arizona Pain Institutes
Helen has worked in health care for more than 13 years. She has cared for patients in primary care, emergency medicine, outpatient surgery, solid organ transplantation and pain-management settings. Eight years of her experience was acquired at one of the best medical facilities in the world, the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix.
Helen graduated with honors from Grand Canyon University, obtaining her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner. Helen underwent several years of extensive education above and beyond the two years required for Registered Nurses and is highly qualified to practice medicine in Arizona. Currently, she is finishing her degree to become a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Grand Canyon University and expects to complete this degree in October 2019.
Helen understands the hardships faced by those suffering from chronic pain and uses a multimodal approach at the Northern Arizona Pain Institutes clinic to help her patients reduce pain and increase their quality of life. Her pain management treatments include medication management and interventional pain procedures, such as, trigger point, joint, bursa, tendon, and supartz Injections.