Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc.
Wild Iris Medical Education is a privately-owned company offering high quality online continuing education since 1998. Now in its tenth year, the company has expanded to provide accredited and state-approved courses for nurses, critical care nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, EMTs, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals.
Learn more about our services and benefits. Wild Iris also offers corporate/group accounts and we invite you to contact us for details.
OUR TEAM
Ann Johnson, RN
Chief Executive Officer
Ann Johnson is co-founder and CEO of Wild Iris Medical Education. She is a registered nurse and has worked in many areas of nursing. Ann's last hospital job was as Emergency Department Manager and Director of the Drug-Free Workplace Program at Ukiah Valley Medical Center in Ukiah, California. She was also a nursing instructor for five years at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg, California.
Ann began dreaming of becoming a nurse entrepreneur in 1980. In 1997 she co-founded Wild Iris with Lauren Robertson and now enjoys being able to combine her thirty years of hospital nursing with her love of the computer and education.
Ann lives and works from her property in the redwoods of California. She has spent the last twenty-three years as a fire fighter with the Comptche Volunteer Fire Department. Ann and her husband spend their free time walking their dogs on the beach.
Randal Stuart MacDonald, BA, CSDP
Chief Technology Officer, Technical Director
Randy MacDonald has been working with networked computer systems since the mid-1980s and is an expert in software development, including Internet programming, web-database integration, and e-commerce systems. He is conversant with a wide variety of software technology platforms and programming languages. Randy is an IEEE-certified software development professional.
Randy is responsible for the programming and management of all technical systems used by Wild Iris Medical Education. He has custom-designed the Wild Iris content management system, a comprehensive relational database, and a site-wide e-commerce continuing education system for the company. Each is built in accordance with professional software development standards.
Randy earned a bachelor's degree with honors, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Oregon in 1990. Randy, like Ann Johnson, is a volunteer fire fighter in Comptche, California.
Persis Mary Hamilton, RN, CNS, MS, EdD
Nurse Planner, Writer
Persis Hamilton works as Wild Iris's nurse planner to ensure compliance with guidelines of the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Persis has a rich background in nursing, nursing education, and writing. She has written fourteen nursing textbooks for two major publishers and several courses for Wild Iris. Her master’s degree focused on community mental health nursing and her doctoral dissertation investigated the relationship of learning to behavioral objectives and visual design in a textbook.
Over the years Persis has worked in most areas of nursing and she taught for more than forty years in vocational, associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs. She has served as an item writer for the League for Nursing and as principle speaker in numerous continuing education workshops. While serving on the faculty at the University of Guam, Persis conducted research into the high rate of suicide in Micronesia. She now maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and in her "spare time" writes continuing nursing education courses for Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc.
Susanna MacDonald, BA
Web Producer
Susanna MacDonald has designed and produced websites since 1996, first as senior partner of a web development company for five years and then as an independent contractor providing services to companies across the United States and Ireland. She specializes in comprehensive website design including site architecture, navigation and usability, and the adaptation of business identity, services, and content to the unique medium of the Internet.
Susanna is responsible for maintaining the Wild Iris Medical Education websites and design, planning and implementation of future website improvements. She also works with each department in Wild Iris to design UIs for internal systems, assist with project management, and provide technical services for a variety of projects and staff.
Susanna earned a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Oregon in 1990. She enjoys travel, gardening, literature and art.
Janis MacDonald
Marketing Director
Janis MacDonald began her career as a certified nurse assistant, then worked in Medical Records under the supervision of the Tumor Board. Later she carried her interpersonal skills to the trade show industry where she accumulated thirty years' experience with professional and trade associations. As a consultant, her clients ranged from the American Dental Association to the American Trucking Association. As Marketing Director for Wild Iris, Janis manages media, existing corporate accounts and responds to requests for master accounts and partnerships.
Janis is a native Californian who has returned to the West Coast after spending seventeen years in the Washington, D.C. area. She is a community volunteer, currently serving as president of her local Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary, and is active in supporting the local arts community.
Anja Grimes
Executive Assistant
Anja Grimes graduated as a nationally examined foreign language correspondent in English and French in her native Germany. After several years as a correspondent, Anja joined an international medical supply company as an Export Sales Manager, selling medical supplies ranging from sundries to hospital equipment. In 1999 she moved to the United States and was employed as an Accounting and Human Resources Manager at a German import/export business in San Francisco for over eight years.
Now, as a Mendocino Coast resident and Wild Iris employee, Anja is able to combine her interest in medicine with her experience in sales and customer satisfaction to provide our customers with excellent customer service.
In her spare time, Anja volunteers to teach German at a local elementary school, enjoys exercising, and loves to travel.
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