Dr. Sheila A. Nevarez DHA, MSN, ANP-BC

Dedicated administrator, researcher, nurse, and leader who has devoted decades to the underserved, impoverished, and infirmed at all levels of care. She has over 25 years of experience as a CEO in an array of behavioral health settings. She received her BSN from Salve Regina University on an ROTC scholarship. She was a Distinguished Military Graduate from Providence College and served in the Army Nurse Corp as a trauma/ICU nurse. She graduated from the U.S Army Adult Nurse Practitioner Program in 1990. She received her MSN from Yale University in 1994 and a Doctorate in Health Administration from the University of Phoenix in 2017 after successfully defending/publishing a doctoral dissertation on bullying in nursing.

Sheila has been a nursing professor for ADN and MSN students while remaining an active doctoral mentor. Clinically Sheila has expertise in infectious disease, internal medicine, advanced pharmacology, endocrinology, addiction, and psychiatry. Her administrative work in behavioral health has included geriatrics, co-occurring, forensics, and addiction/detox in inpatient, outpatient, IOP, PHP, residential, and clinic settings.

She maintains an active RN and Adult Nurse Practitioner licensure. Her consultancy work includes providing expertise for long-term care, ethics, risk management, and leadership. In May 2025 she joined the International Pipe Group as their full-time VP of Human Resources & Employee Engagement.

Sheila has lived and worked in twelve states. Many of those years were spent in New York City and Pennsylvania. She relocated to Albuquerque, NM in 2015. Her hobbies include triathlons, endurance running, reading, animal rescue work, and musicals. She plays the piano and is a master gardener.

In 2017 she did her first 70.3 Ironman triathlon. Since then, she has completed seven others and in 2019, at age 54, she finished Ironman 140.6 Arizona. She and her husband are avid triathletes and continue to train together. Her volunteer work continues with veterans, helping the homeless, and animal rescue.