Title: Certified Nurse Anesthetist

Company: Mount Nittany Medical Center

Location: Mercer, Penn.

Kathryn “Kip” Brookover has been providing independent anesthesiologist care and consulting for 39 years. Located in Mercer, Penn., Ms. Brookover offers devoted and passionate certified nurse anesthesiology services locally, regionally and nationally. She has worked on the open heart team, taught, and has been involved in outside memberships for networking reasons, and to give back. This has been Ms. Brookover’s life-long profession, and has believed in herself and knowledge every step of the way.

As a child, Ms. Brookover’s parents told her that she could do anything that she wanted. Although her mother stayed at home, she was encouraged to succeed and get an education through devoted work hard. Ms. Brookover has encouraged her daughter to do the same, and now she is a child psychologist. They are a family of strong women. She was also the first woman in Mercer, Penn. to be asked to join the Mercer Rotary in the early 1990s.