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Neurosurgical Nurses
For Quality Care and Compassion, Ask a Nurse
Our neurosurgical nurses have advanced educational and clinical
experiences that contribute to our academic programs. They treat
all patients with kindness and respect, and offer information services
that promote healing and lead to healthier life styles.
 Teresa
Bell-Stephens, RN
Teresa has worked with the Department since 1990. She has an extensive
background in critical care, and her current focus is on coordinating
the cerebrovascular surgery program. She has been a co-investigator
or study coordinator on numerous clinical trials evaluating therapeutic
agents in treatment of cerebral vasospasm and severe head injury.
Teresa is a regular lecturer for Bay Area nurses on various neuroscience
nursing topics and has presented many papers at the annual meetings
of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) and the
World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses (WFNN). She has published
several articles in nursing journals regarding cerebrovasuclar nursing
issues.
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Nursing Coordinators
Elizabeth Lee, RN, NP, MSN
 Elizabeth
has been a neurosurgery nurse practitioner at Stanford Medical Center
for five years. She obtained her undergraduate and masters degrees
from the University of California, Los Angeles. She currently focuses
on radiosurgical treatments for brain and spinal cord tumors, lecturing
regularly to Bay Area nurses about such treatment options. She has
received two Friends of Nursing grants to support educational projects
for Brain Tumor and Parkinson’s Disease support groups, and
currently facilitates a monthly South Bay Tumor Support Group.
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Kay McGuire, RN, BA, BSN
 Kay
has worked at Stanford University for twenty years. Her extensive
background includes trauma, surgical, and oncological nursing and
she has also served as a staff nurse and case manager. Kay was recently
the Acting Director for Clinical Neurosciences. Her publications
include articles in Nursing Research and Stanford Nurse about various
patient care management topics, and she is co-contributor to Neurology
Magazine on deep brain stimulators and their outcomes. She currently
coordinates the Stanford Movement Disorders Program for Clinical
Neurosciences, and the Functional Neurosurgery Program.
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Michelle Mitchell, RN, MSN, NP
 Michelle
recently joined the department after receiving her master's degree
in nursing and nurse practitioner certificate, specializing in family
health, from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA. She received her
undergraduate degree in nursing from Fairfield University in Fairfield,
CT. Michelle has four years of experience as a staff nurse in maternal/newborn
health in the intensive care nursery. Her current focus is on diseases
of the spine and spinal cord injury.
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Candice Osuga Lin, RN, NP, MSN, CS, CCRN
 Candice
joined Stanford Hospital and Clinics five years ago as a staff nurse
in the medical, surgical intensive care unit (E2ICU). She defected
to the Department of Neurosurgery nearly two years ago as a nurse
practitioner. Candice earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological
Sciences from the University of California at Davis, and her Master
of Science degree as an acute care nurse practitioner from Vanderbilt
University. Candice has been active with multiple sub-specialties
in neurosurgery, including neuro-oncology, spine, and movement disorders.
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Hannah Zare, RN, NP
 After
five years as a pediatric oncology nurse practitioner at Lucile
Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Hannah joined
the Neurosurgery Department in June 2001. She graduated from McGill
University, then gained extensive experience in the field of adult
surgical and cardiovascular nursing as a staff nurse and assistant
nurse manager. She was awarded a professional graduate degree from
Samuel Merritt College as a family nurse practitioner with a focus
on anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy in survivors of childhood
leukemia. Hannah has been an active member of the Children’s
Oncology Group, and has participated in and coordinated different
aspects of phase I, II, III and IV clinical trials and patient therapeutic
regimens. She received several recognition awards from the Department
of Pediatrics for her contributions to patient care and protocol
development. Hannah is dedicated to the Department’s internationally
recognized pediatric neurosurgical diseases and clinical research.
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Research Nurses
Desiree Luu, Research RN
Desiree received her undergraduate degree in nursing from California
State University, Hayward, then joined the Stanford Stroke Center
as a research assistant in 1996, where she worked for two years.
She then transferred to the telemetry floor and neurology/med-surgery/oncology-gynecology
for two and a half years before joining the Neurosurgery Department
as a a research nurse in June 2001.
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