Bowen, J. Nancy, MAOIP

Nancy Bowen has served in her role as the Chief Executive Officer at NVPCA for the past nearly six years and as Deputy Director for over five years prior beginning her employment at NVPCA in May 2012.  She has over 30 years’ experience in the nonprofit administration, strategic plan implementation, grants management, operations, and program management. Her key strengths are strategic leadership, maximizing funding, and creating strong organization culture and structure for staff to thrive in.

Ms. Bowen dedicates her time to serve on several committees that support the work of primary care association. She has functioned as a State of Nevada Primary Care Advisory Committee members since 2018 which provides recommendations for J-1 Visa waiver applications to the Director of Health and Human Services. Ms. Bowen co-chaired the Primary Care sub-committee for the Nevada Health Care Workforce Pipeline Development Workgroup for two years, 2022-2023. She serves on the NACHC’s Health Policy Committee, Credentials Committee and Training and Health Center Excellence Committee for the past five years and was the Region IX representative for the NACHC PCA Leadership Committee from June 2020- August 2023. Ms. Bowen is a member of the Nevada Office of Minority Health Equity Committee and participated in the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access.

Prior to joining NVPCA Nancy held the position of Director of Operations for the Arizona Family Health Partnership (AFHP), a federally funded Title X grantee.  Ms. Bowen has extensive experience with compliance regulations and reporting associated with federal funding.  During her 18-year tenure at AFHP, she developed strong fiscal management skills, improved programmatic and administrative policies, while leading and motivating staff to consistently exceed goals. Nancy’s career path at this agency took her from Administrative Assistant to Director of Operations.

She is a graduate of the UCLA Health Care Executive Program, July 2017. Ms. Bowen received a Master of Applied Industrial and Organizational Psychology (MAOIP) degree with a focus on healthcare leadership from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts Psychology degree is received from Arizona State University (ASU).