Demystifying spirometry at the point of care
Cost-effective, easy-to-use tools, like spirometers need to be implemented as the standard similar to a blood pressure test in doctor’s offices and other locations where people receive their care.
Wendy Wright, MS and Georg Harnoncourt
Wendy is a 1992 graduate of the Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and completed a family nurse practitioner post-Master’s program in 1995. She is an adult and family nurse practitioner and the owner of two, nurse practitioner owned and operated clinics within New Hampshire named: Wright & Associates Family Healthcare. In addition, she is the owner of Partners in Healthcare Education, a medical education company. She is the Past President of NPACE and the Senior lecturer for Fitzgerald Health Education Associates. She is the recipient of numerous awards and was chosen by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as the 1999 recipient of the New Hampshire State Excellence Award. In addition, she received the 2009 NH Nurse Practitioner of the Year and the 2014 Top 5 Women in New Hampshire Business Award. In 2005, she was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; in October 2014, a Fellow in the
American Academy of Nursing, and in March 2017, a Fellow into the National Academies of Practice. She is the founder of the NH Chamber of Entrepreneurial Nurse Practitioners, an organization designed to assist nurse practitioners with independent practice issues. In addition to full-time clinical practice, she presents nationally to different audiences and has been a speaker at over 1000 conferences in 46 states. She is the nurse practitioner representative to the State of NH Immunization Advisory Board. She has been a medical media spokesperson for a number of companies and has appeared on radio, television, and in print magazines. Wendy is frequently consulted by malpractice attorneys around the area of clinical practice and has worked on more than 100 malpractice cases involving nurses and nurse practitioners.
Georg Harnoncourt has been CEO of ndd Medical Technologies, a leader in
pulmonary function testing with products based on proprietary breakthrough TrueFlow ultrasound technology, since 2002. Prior to holding the position of CEO, Georg started in business development, where he focused on the U.S. market and built an experienced sales team. Since joining ndd in 1996, Georg has been responsible for transitioning the company from a research startup to a market leader with over 45% market share in spirometry in the United States. A member of the founding family, Georg helped bring the vision of earlier diagnosis of lung disease to reality by developing products focused on the patient at the point of care.
Born in Graz, Austria, Georg graduated with a degree economics and business at Vienna University where he studied economics and business. He currently lives in Switzerland.