Katie Thornton
Katie Thornton has been a nurse for over 15 years. She began as an addiction specialty nurse running clinical operations at Oregon’s largest methadone clinic. She transitioned after 6 years to Multnomah County where she ran the refugee health screening program as nursing supervisor for the state of Oregon. She now happily resides as the regional manager for Multnomah County’s North and Northeast Health Centers; the Northeast Health Center is the county’s historically black American health clinic. As a biracial woman with a 6 year old son Katie strives every day to make sure the world she leaves to her sons is made a little better than the one she inherited, this is the long standing tradition of her family.
Katie supports clients through coaching, leadership training, culture change initiatives and more, bringing decades of hands on experience as a service provider and a seasoned executive to support leadership teams in creating cultures of care for their staff and their patients/clients/customers.