At 75, Kathleen (Kathy) Haney embodies resilience, purpose, and care. Family duties once slowed her college path, but persistence carried her to an undergraduate degree in occupational education and a graduate degree in vocational education administration. She went on to become the coordinator/director of dental hygiene and dental assisting at the community college and university levels. Her career spanned teaching, mentoring and serving as an accreditation site surveyor for American Dental Assistant/Dental Hygiene Programs. Ultimately, Kathy moved on to become the Asst. Director of Education for the IL. State Medical Society and then the Academic Coordinator of Pediatrics at RUSH University Medical Center, again her duties included preparing accreditation documents. Kathy’s self-care story includes surviving uterine cancer and enduring a grueling replacement of a hip implant that fractured within her after 20 years of use. She has devoted years to the Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare Society’s Children’s Clinic as a volunteer, and she mentor’s women dealing with gynecologic cancer through the Northwestern Univ. Medical Center’s Woman to Woman Program, and the OCRA (Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance) Support Groups, which addresses all types of gynecologic cancer.

"I strive to grow older with dignity and self-respect as I live my life with purpose and help others do the same." - Kathleen Haney

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