DeAnna Finifrock, R.N., P.H.N., M.S.N., is a public health nurse at the Fond du Lac Reservation located near Cloquet. She has been employed as a tribal nurse in the Fond du Lac Human Services Division’s Public Health Nursing Department since 1989, providing a wide variety of nursing services.

When the Fond du Lac Reservation was funded for their comprehensive cancer control and prevention efforts in June 2003, Finifrock was assigned to the grant as the comprehensive cancer program manager. Since August 2003, Finifrock has guided the planning process of the Reservation’s Wiidookaage Comprehensive Cancer Plan and has initiated several community outreach programs to increase awareness surrounding the burden of cancer among American Indians. As a breast cancer survivor, awareness of this disease is especially important to Finifrock.

She received her undergraduate degree in nursing from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, and completed a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

To contact DeAnna Finifrock, email deannafinifrock@fdlrez.com