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Board of Directors:
Meg Oberreuter, RN, BSN
Meg obtained her nursing diploma at St. Luke’s School of Nursing and her BSN from Coe College. She has worked in various aspects of nursing for most of the past 35 years. She is currently employed by the Linn County Public Health Department as an environmental health specialist and does some limited nursing with folks on the ASD spectrum and their therapies. Meg is a massage therapist, receiving her training at Carson College of Massage Therapy.
She has served as the leader of the East Central Iowa Chapter of Autism Society of Iowa for most of the past 25 years. She has served on the board and is a chapter representative for the ASA. She has been a member of The Arc for 25 years.
She has attended three Defeat Autism Now! conferences following the practicitioner tracts, two Autism One conferences and many national ASA conferences and ASI conferences over the years.
Meg is the parent of three children. Kevin, age 29 has classical autism (mercury poisoned), John, age 26 and Sheila, age 21 who has ADD (mercury poisoned). Both children have improved with biomedical therapies combined with other strategies making them healthier individuals.
Quote: Observing the benefit of medical therapies helping the younger children improve or recover, inspired me to pursue similar avenues of therapy for Kevin, as an adult. He will not see total recovery, but is experiencing better health…therefore, adding to the quality of his life. My daughter is a successful college student pursing her dreams and better health. I believe we all need to be active learners to help ourselves and therefore, our families become as healthy as possible. I hop the Circle of Care can be a source of information to help educate yourselves on all aspects of healthy choices for you and your family.
Diane Hill, RN, BSN
Diane obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Mount Mercy College. She has worked in several aspects of nursing in the last 12 years. She is currently employed by Mercy Medical Center as a neonatal nurse and does some therapies with individuals on the ASD spectrum.
She has attended two Autism One conferences, a Defeat Autism Now! conference and numerous educational conferences.
Diane is the parent of two children with ASD. Nathan, age 9 with infantile autism and Logan, age 7 with PDD-NOS. Logan is now recovered.
Quote: I have seen first hand that biomedical therapies along with other strategies do improve the health and well-being of individuals with ASD spectrums. As a parent with a recovered child, the reality of recovery is real and there is hope for others.
Laura Schmitt, C.N.E.
Laura is a Certified Nutrition educator trained in the principles of holistic nutrition. With challenging family food in tolerances, Laura has become an expert on preparing healthy low allergen meals as well as an advocate for autism diets.
Laura is a published author and a public speaker on nutrition with a special emphasis on dietary restrictions and eating for health. In 2006, Laura launched the online informational website, www.GlutenAndDairyFree.com, in hopes to help other parents find safe food ideas to promote health while on a restricted diet.
Laura joins the Spinal Corrective Center, P.C., as a nutritional educator to help individuals create unique meal plans geared toward their specific tastes, needs and time constraints. When asked about her involvement as a board member for Circle of Care, Laura expressed, “I am very excited that our community will have a single location to gather a collective of information that can otherwise be difficult for parents to find. This will help parents support their families with methods that they may not know even existed. I would have been elated to have so much information at my finger tips early in my parenting journey, and I am ecstatic to be a part of the process that provides that information to everyone in Eastern Central Iowa.”
Janet M. Cuhel, DC, DICCP
Dr. Cuhel graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1993 and continued her education as a founding member of the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics where she received her Diplomat in Chiropractic Pediatrics in 1996. She has a family practice with an emphasis on pediatrics; including children and adults with special needs. “Over the past 16 years I have been honored to be involved with projects which look at quality of life issues for children and especially those with special needs”.
Dr. Cuhel was on a committee which wrote the ICA Pediatric Standards of Care. In 2003, she was asked to be the leader developer and health care provider for the Palmer College Day Care Center. Dr. Cuhel has been a presenter at the ICA International Conferences on pediatric health care and in 2008 was part of a team which presented on the importance of a collaborative approach to care for the special needs child. She has been attending the DAN! Conferences over the past 10 years and is a listed DAN! Practitioner.
Quote: “My passion is to be involved with parents and professionals who have experienced the benefits of a collaborative approach to care. This includes the freedom to access information so as to have power in the freedom of choice for family health and well-being.”
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