Janice Ankenmann has been a Registered Nurse since 1977, graduating from Indian River Community College and the University of Florida. She moved to Los Angeles and worked as a nurse and nurse manager in the Medical/Respiratory ICU at Cedars Sinai Medical Center for ten years. She then continued her education and obtained a B.S. in nursing from the University of California San Francisco, her Masters in Health Care Administration at St. Mary's College in Moraga and her M.S.N. and F.N.P. at the University of Phoenix in Sacramento (2002). She has worked at Napa Valley Nephrology and Internal Medicine, part-time, since 2002. In addition, she continues to work part-time in the ICU at Queen of the Valley Hospital where she was the ICU Nursing Director for five years. She is also the program director and part-time professor of the LVN program at Napa Valley College. Janice is married with interests that include gardening, cooking, decorating and spending time with family and friends. Janice is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and maintains her Critical Care Certification and California Teaching Certification.

Professional Affiliations

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Sigma Theta Tau
• Napa Advanced Practice Clinicians Network
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses