Lynn E. Gras, Nurse Practitioner

 Sitka 

Specialty 

Family Medicine

Certification 

American Nurses Credentialing Center

Education 

Lynn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Hope College in Holland, Mich., and a Masters of Science degree in Nursing from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich. Lynn has been a traveling emergency room and neonatal intensive care unit nurse for more than a decade, working in the Lower 48, Alaska, U.S. Virgin Islands and England; then as a family nurse practitioner locums in remote villages, including Prince of Wales Island, the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, and flying medevacs for the Norton Sound region. She also volunteered for refugee work in the Middle East and was medical officer for a high-altitude deep field camp in Antarctica. Lynn is the director of nursing at S’áxt’ Hít Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital.

Awards & Honors 

Lynn received an activism award for her humanitarian work with refugee camps in the Middle East.

Special Interests: 

Lynn's medical interests include remote site, village and refugee camp nursing; emergency and flight medicine; and neonatal resucitation/stabilization. She also enjoys the violin, climbing and paragliding.