Barb Chesnutt

Barb grew up on a dairy farm in rural South Dakota. Her love of caring for animals (and eventually people!) began here, among the baby calves she bottle fed and the cows she milked. Working alongside her father as he tenderly cared for all of the animals on the farm during the day and watching her mother - the only registered nurse in the area - were formative experiences. The seeds for a career that would take her to countries throughout the world were planted there, in Long Lake, South Dakota.

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Barb earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from South Dakota State University and after 15 years of Intensive Care Nursing (ICU) under her belt, decided to pursue her Masters. She attended the University of Pittsburgh and earned her masters as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with Critical Care specialization. She works in the ICU at Littleton Adventist Hospital located in the Denver Metropolitan Area. Before joining the Colorado Pulmonary Intensivists group at Littleton, Barb worked in the neurosurgical ICU at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and the Surgical ICU at University of Colorado Hospital. She was a clinical instructor for the Colorado University School of Nursing.

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Barb served as a board member and a medical team member for Project Open Hearts, a medical non-profit organization dedicated to providing medical care and training to under-served areas throughout the world. In her work with Project Open Hearts she worked and taught in Mongolia, Tanzania, Vietnam and Cambodia.

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By founding ClarBright, Barb is building a new platform to continue to serve, to teach and to work to ensure the best techniques, approaches and strategies in relational health are shared more broadly, to everywhere and with everyone who could benefit from them.

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