Dr. Cynthia Ellis-Stoll, PhD:  

Life I worked as an RN from 1977 until 2014. My favorite area was Surgery, where I spent 20 years at St. Joe and Wesley. I also worked OB at Wesley and Oncology at St. Francis in the early days (1972-1978). I stopped playing my violin at age 20 and pursued Nursing which was much more rewarding to me. I further enhanced my mind and resume by completing my BSN (1991) and MSN (1994) at Wichita State U. I met my current husband, Samson, in the Computer Lab. He was running that lab and helped me out on many occasions! So I married him in 1994. I always had the dream of completing a PhD, so I interviewed at KU Med (for Nursing, not Medicine!) and was accepted after a few exams (to make sure I wasn't a total idiot) in 1997. The track I was offered (yeah, no choice) was Statistics, and my minor area was Psychology (a general area). There was a group of us, about 8, who stu...Expand for more