Lisa Perley-Dutcher, RN, BN

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Lisa Perley-Dutcher
Director, Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative
Phone: (506) 447-3098
Fax: (506) 453-4798
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Lisa Perley-Dutcher is a Maliseet woman from the Tobique First Nation.

She graduated from UNB in 1990 with a Bachelor of Nursing degree.  She started her career working as a psychiatric nurse, then as a community health nurse for St. Mary’s First Nation.

Lisa subsequently worked as the First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care Coordinator for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island First Nations. 

She served as President of the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada and in this capacity developed a best practice guideline on cultural competency in collaboration with the Registered Nurses of Ontario.

She is currently the director of the Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative at UNB, Faculty of Nursing. She is enrolled in the Masters of Nursing Program at UNB and her studies are focused on developing cultural competency with faculty.