A Streamwood Illinois mother of five and grandmother, Judith Abraham is an experienced hospital administrator and registered nurse who has managed obstetrics wards and women’s care units in hospitals in Wyoming and Chicago. After nearly three decades as a delivery and labor nurse and while serving as an interim department director at Thermopolis Hospital in Wyoming, Judith Abraham earned a master’s in organizational leadership from Lewis University.
Lewis University’s master’s program in organizational leadership is for experienced professionals looking to gain strategic planning and decision making skills to manage large projects and organizations. The program offers five concentrations, including nonprofit management, higher education, and executive coaching. Courses take place in the evening to accommodate working students and focus on topics and theories that are relevant to their current and future careers.
Students can choose to obtain their credential in organizational leadership with face to face or online course options. The university also offers an accelerated BA and a certificate program. Some potential career paths after graduation include working in human resources, academia, or project management.
An experienced obstetrics nurse who has held director roles in Illinois and Wyoming hospitals, Judith Abraham recently served as an interim director of obstetrics at Wyoming's Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital. Judith Abraham enjoys spending her free time with her five children, one of which is a professional Muay Thai kickboxer.
Muay Thai has not yet been included in the Olympic Games, but support is increasing for that to happen in the near future. There are 135 national Muay Thai federations, 60 of which are recognized by their respective Olympic Committees. Moreover, those federations comprise nearly 400,000 registered athletes.
In 2016, Muay Thai earned provisional recognition as an Olympic sport from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which means Muay Thai will receive $25,000 in annual funding and be eligible to apply for inclusion in the Olympic Games in 2019. Months before granting Muay Thai provisional status, the IOC approved karate, sports climbing, surfing, skateboarding, and baseball/softball for the Tokyo 2020 program.
The recipient of a bachelor's degree in nursing from Elmhurst College and a master's degree in organizational leadership from Lewis University, Judith Abraham is an experienced obstetrics nurse who has held director roles at hospitals in Illinois and Wyoming. An avid hockey fan, former Wyoming resident Judith Abraham counts the Chicago Blackhawks as her favorite National Hockey League (NHL) team.
Although Corey Crawford is expected to be the Blackhawks starting goaltender next season, the team will have depth at the position following the recent acquisition of Cam Ward. The team signed the veteran goaltender and former Stanley Cup winner to a one-year, $3 million contract on July 1. A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ward was selected 25th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2002 NHL Draft and has spent his entire 13-year career with the Eastern Conference franchise.
Ward was just a rookie during his former team's 2005-06 Stanley Cup-winning season, but earned the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. He has since compiled a career regular season record of 318-244-84 to go along with a 2.70 goals against average, and a .909 save percentage. While he's expected to serve as the team's backup goaltender, he is more than capable of filling in as a starter for an extended period of time should Crawford miss extensive time with an injury, as he did last season.
As a licensed registered nurse and certified inpatient obstetric nurse, Judith Abraham has accrued more than 30 years of experience working in Illinois and Wyoming hospitals. Former Wyoming professional Judith Abraham draws on an in-depth knowledge of perinatal assessment tools, including amniocentesis.
Amniocentesis is a prenatal procedure used to assess the health of the baby. Physicians will often use it to test for genetic conditions such as Down syndrome, particularly when the expectant mother has had positive screening test results or is at particularly high risk of giving birth to a child with a certain condition.
In other cases, physicians utilize amniocentesis to test for infection or illness in the fetus. It is often used to detect diseases caused by a single gene defect, which doctors may identify through carrier screening or evaluation of the parents' family histories. The test may also serve as a way of evaluating anemia in babies with Rh sensitization, which causes the mother's immune system to act on the proteins of a fetus' blood cells.
Amniocentesis may also help a medical team to determine whether a baby's lungs have matured enough for birth. This is most common when the mother is at 32 to 39 weeks gestation and is at risk of non-emergent pregnancy complications. Before 32 weeks, the baby's lungs are unlikely to be strong enough to allow him or her to breathe outside of the womb.
