Deena G. Brissett, DNP, FNP-C, is a Goshen College alumnus, majoring in nursing and minoring in Spanish. After graduation, she spent one year in Brownsville, Texas, with Mennonite Voluntary Service. She completed a master’s degree at University of Illinois, Chicago in 2001 and is a family nurse practitioner. She has worked in both family practice and pediatric community clinics, and has taught in the nurse practitioner program at Texas Woman’s University. She has been a part of Goshen Family Physicians since 2007. Mrs. Brissett has two adolescent children.