Tracy Marquette, a registered respiratory therapist who has been with Our Lady of the Lake for 30 years, has been appointed to a two-year term on the national Association of Asthma Educators board of directors.
In addition to being a registered respiratory therapist, Marquette is a certified asthma educator and the coordinator for the Community Asthma Management Program (CAMP) – a collaborative effort of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital, Health Centers in Schools, the Children’s Health project, and physicians promoting better care for the asthmatic pediatric population. She provides education in the acute care population and within the community. She works with Louisiana Healthy Homes Coalition and heads up a summer asthma camp that brings collaboration with the Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and BREC.
The Association of Asthma Educators (AAE) was founded in 1998 and is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing quality education to a multidisciplinary group of asthma educators. The group’s primary purpose is to promote asthma education as an integral component of a comprehensive asthma program, to raise the competence of healthcare professionals who educate individuals and families affected by asthma, and to raise the standard of care and quality of asthma education delivered to those with asthma. The express purpose of asthma education is to improve health outcomes for individuals and families affected by asthma.
Marquette is the only member on the AAE board from Louisiana. Her term will run through the end of 2018.