Barbara Ihrke
Vice President of Academic Affairs, School of Nursing

Biography
Dr. Barbara Ihrke has taught full-time at Indiana Wesleyan University since 1994. Her areas of expertise include transcultural nursing, tropical health, gerontology, and nursing informatics. Barbara is a research consultant at Marion General Hospital and was a home health nurse for several years. From 1980-1991 she worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a missionary nurse teaching in a school of nursing and doing primary health care projects. She spent her sabbatical in Gabon, Africa.
Interests
Degrees
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Ph.D.
2002, Purdue University -
M.S.
1993, Indiana Wesleyan University -
B.S.
1977, Crown College