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Nursing Department

Marcella Gowan

Photo of Marcella GowanAssistant Professor of Nursing
MPH, International Health, Loma Linda University

Phone: 503-554-2958
Office: Hoover 220
Campus Box: 6273
E-mail: mgowan@georgefox.edu



Marcella Gowan, who was adjunct faculty in the spring of 2006, returned in August 2007 as full time faculty. Prior to her arrival, Gowan served as missionary nurse-midwife for 20 years. Her teaching experience has been in many countries and at many levels from, barefoot doctors and traditional birth attendants to university and post graduate students.

Gowan holds a master’s degree from Loma Linda California, a bachelor of science in nursing from Walla Walla College and a post graduate certificate as a nurse midwife from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in Hyden, Ky.