Contact: lisabchace@gmail.com
Professional background : After Middlebury, I went to Cornell Nursing School in NYC. I worked for two years at Dartmouth Hitchcock, did a five month stint with the Cornell Medical Team in Cambodia and then earned a Masters in Nursing in Adult Primary Care at Boston College. My career began in occupational health, however I retired in October, 2014 from a primary care practice in Exeter, NH.
Personal: It was in Boston that I met my husband, Ric, who was completing his residency in ophthalmology at Tufts. We moved to NH in 1983 and were married in 1985. Ric started Eyesight, which is one of the largest ophthalmology practices in NH. In addition to general ophthalmology, he specializes in medical retina and is involved in numerous research studies.
We have three children. Meredith, 35, UNH ’04, (my stepdaughter and avid skiier) lives in Denver with her husband and our two grandchildren. Taylor, 30, UNH ’11, lives in NH and works as a strength and conditioning coach for Exeter Hospital’s Athletic Performance Center. Rossli, 28, graduated from RPI where she played on the Womens’ Ice Hockey Team. She earned her masters in nursing from UNH. She and another nurse recently opened Lashbar, a successful lash extension business in downtown Portsmouth, NH, www.lashbar.life. Rossli is also in the Nurse Practioner program at UNH, after which she plans to focus on dermatology.
My mini-bio would be incomplete without mentioning that ice hockey has been a big part of our family’s life for many years. Taylor was an accomplished hockey player, who was playing Juniors in 2002, when he suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury in a game in Canada. After years of rehabilitation he relearned to walk and tried Sled Hockey with Northeast Passage at UNH. In 2005 he was selected to the United States Sled Hockey team and played for ten years, earning a bronze medal in the 2006 Torino Paralympics, and a gold medal in 2010 and 2014 in Vancouver and Sochi. He was voted male Paralympian of the Year in 2010 by the US Olympic Committee. We have travelled the world with Taylor. He and his teammates continue to inspire. In addition to his job, he now coaches sled hockey at UNH and does motivational speaking. www.taylorchace.com
My current interests: Golf, cycling, running, paddle board, singing, Advisory Board, Northeast Passage, dabbling in interior design.
Favorite memory: choir
Favorite professor: Emory Fanning
Favorite song: anything by Pousette Dart Band
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