April C. Ames-Chase
April C. Ames-Chase serves Global Learning and Leadership as a director and senior advisor. She provides guidance for STEM activities for medical fields. Her interest in healthcare began when she was a teenager working at Provident Hospital in Baltimore MD. She attended Coppin State College Helene Fuld School of Nursing earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and then was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps. She received specialized medical training required for work assignments during her years of service in the Air Force. April deployed twice overseas to care for wounded warriors during Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She honorably retired from the military in 2006 at the rank of Major. She is the CEO/Owner of Musiq to My Peers and is the author of the book “A Moment in Time”.
April has received numerus awards during her active duty military service. She was awarded the Mental Health Nurse of the Year while stationed at Andrews Air Force Base. Under April’s leadership, her team won Best Health Promotion Program in the Pacific while stationed in Japan. She received the Tricare Star of the Year from her new cost savings health promotion programs.
As a Research Nurse Coordinator at the Institute of Surgical Research (ISR), she contributed to the publication, “A Collaborative Research System for Functional Outcomes Following Wartime Extremity Vascular Injury Patterns.” April presented the study for functional outcomes at Military Research Conferences, Clinical Nurse Leader Symposiums, and at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) 32nd Annual Conference. She is a dedicated leader and advocate focused to improve the quality of community mental health programs and practices and is continuing her role as a nurse educator. She promotes mental health & wellness to both male and female Veterans in the community through wellness counseling, peer to peer support, music therapy, educational classes, tobacco cessation, fitness and group recreational activities.
April is a member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA), Clinical Nurse Leader Association (CNL), Association of Standardized Patient Educators, American Red Cross, and National Alliance on Mental Illness, Team Rubicon and the Wounded Warrior Project. She is a Minority Fellowship Program Fellow (MFP) conducting evidence-based research on African American female veterans with adaptation difficulties and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders after Iraq and Afghanistan deployments.
Ms. April Ames-Chase earned a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and holds certifications for Medical-Surgical Nursing (RN-BC), Certified Addictions Registered Nurse (CARN) and as a Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). She is pursuing a PhD in Nursing at Walden University with an emphasis on Population Health.