Dr. Minchew has been a member of SGNO since 2013 and has been instrumental in the organization providing her expertise, commitment, and hard work. She is an Associate Professor of Nursing, the College of Nursing Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and the Executive Director of the College of Nursing Honors Program at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. Dr. Minchew earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Nursing from Troy University and post-graduate certificates in women’s health and psychiatric mental health advanced practice with a subspecialty in oncology from the University of South Alabama. She obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Case Western Reserve University and her PhD from Texas Woman’s University. Dr. Minchew maintains an active faculty practice providing survivorship care to gynecologic oncology patients at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute in Mobile where her research focuses on the psychological impact of cancer among women. She is currently the Program Director of USA CON's awarded grant funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for the Leveling Advanced Nursing Education and Social Support Resources to Advance Professional Nursing Education (LEAP) program and for the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR)-Pathway to Registered Nurse Program (PRNP). Dr. Minchew has an extensive list of publications and has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals. She has shared her work at a variety of local, state, national and international meetings. Among her honors, Dr. Minchew counts being a fellow of both the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Elevating Leaders in Academic Nursing program, her appointment by Governor Kay Ivey to the Alabama Office of Women’s Health’s Steering Committee where she serves as Chair, her academic teaching awards, and her Texas Woman's University Rising Star of Research and Scholarship award at the Sigma Theta Tau's International Nursing Research Congress as her most coveted.
Dr. Minchew has also served her academic and professional communities as a USA College of Nursing Faculty Senator for the university; Vice President of the Alabama State Nurses District 4; and as a board member for the Bay Area Nurse Practitioner Association along the upper Gulf Coast region. She is an active member of the Oncology Nurses Society, American Holistic Nurses Association, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, International Association of Forensic Nurses, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health; Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics and Neonatal Nursing, and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
A fun fact about Dr. Minchew is that she shares her June 27th birthday with Helen Keller, a fellow Alabamian, from whom she draws many of her inspirations for caring for strong women who overcome daily obstacles in order to live their best lives.