Nursing For All is excited to welcome two new members to our board, voted in at the most recent meeting last week! You can learn more about John and Bill below.
William LaRock, RN, PhD
Dr. William LaRock, RN, PhD, is an Adult Nurse Practitioner with subspecialties in HIV disease and psychiatry. He received his NP/MSN from the University of California at San Francisco and his PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has spent his career as a healthcare provider to underserved individuals in the United States including the homeless, mentally ill and patients living in extreme poverty. His doctorate focused on program development and evaluation in limited resource settings. He has served as a capacity building consultant in public health systems development in both Rwanda and South Africa. He currently serves as a primary care provider for homeless and shelter based individual in Manhattan.
John Roberts
John Roberts, CFA is an Investment Banking Associate in the Enterprise Risk Management Group at Barclays. He advises the firm’s clients on the risk impact of strategic corporate finance decisions, such as how they allocate capital, finance themselves and manage market risks. He has worked at Barclays since graduating summa cum laude from Colby in 2009, where he majored in Mathematical Science and Honors Economics-Mathematics with a Concentration in Financial Markets. For his honors thesis, he examined whether parallel exchange rates could be used to predict moves in commodity prices. He cofounded the Colby Student Investment Association and was an avid member of the Sailing and Crew Teams. He is also an Eagle Scout and supporter of Boy Scouts of America.