Staff
Leslie Andry, FCP, Office Manager serves the Twin Cities FertilityCare Center as the office manager. She has worked with the Center as both a practitioner and an office assistant since 1998. She and her husband Kory have been married for thirteen years, and have used the Creighton Model successfully both to achieve and to space pregnancies. They reside in Stillwater with their four children. Leslie enjoys homeschooling, teaching flute lessons, and playing the piano.
Brigid Barrett, FCP, began teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System in 2007, and teaches at St. Charles Borromeo Church in St. Anthony Village. Brigid and her husband Paul live in Minneapolis and have three young daughters. She became a practitioner after observing its success in her own marriage and in those of her friends. Besides her teaching, Brigid also enjoys cooking, shopping for her little ones, and attending family outings around the Twin Cities.
Cassandra Bruski, RN, BSN, FCP,
Amy Cummings, FCP,
Janet Derosier, BS, FCP, has a degree in Community Health Education and has worked in Public Health in the field of preventive health care / training for the largest HMO in Minnesota, and also as a contract trainer for United HealthCare Corporation. She has been a Creighton Model practitioner for thirteen years. "The best part of my work is helping couples get to the underlying cause of why they are having difficulty getting pregnant and advocating for them so they can access what they need in the health care system." Janet is married and they have three beautiful children.
Jeanna Desideri, FCP,
Luci Gouin, RN, FCP, has been teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System with the Twin Cities FertilityCare Center since 2007 at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, as well as seeing women / couples in Bloomington. As a practitioner, teaching and educating women / couples about their fertility empowers them to advocate for their fertility needs. Whether walking with couples dealing with infertility, a newly engaged couple seeking a way to plan their family, or single women looking for answers to medical problems, Luci enjoys working and teaching each. She is a registered nurse at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in the intensive care unit. In her spare time Luci enjoys walking, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
Susan Kolb, FCP,
Sue Lewis FCP, Director,
Jennifer Mak, FCP,
Mary Marich, FCPI, has been teaching for over three years, primarily in the northern suburbs. She was so excited about the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System and its possibilities; she now provides couples the service that she and her husband were blessed to overcome infertility with. Mary believes that all women have a right to know how their bodies work and to cooperate with its physiological design. In her free time, she enjoys throwing pottery, baking and reading. Mary and her husband Brandon have been married since 2001 and have four boys, including a set of identical twins.
Sara Rogers, FCP, has been a FertilityCare Practitioner for two years, and teaches in the south metro area. She grew up in a small town in southeastern Minnesota, went to college in Duluth where she earned a BA in Biology, and now lives in St. Paul with her husband, John. Sara works as a chemical technician at a local manufacturing plant, where she makes personal care products such as lotions, shampoos, and lip balms. She began using the Creighton Model during college, and Sara and her husband John eventually became huge supporters of the method. Sara became a practitioner because she truly believes every woman and couple has the right to have knowledge of their fertility. She was impressed by the solid scientific basis of the method. Sara loves getting to know her clients and being able to share their joy of family planning with them.
Rebecca Ruff, FCP, began teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System in 2007 after discovering the many benefits it offered in regards to women's health, infertility and couples. Personally, the method helped Beckie and her husband John to overcome their infertility issues, and helped solve the women's health issues Beckie been dealing with since she was a teenager. Her teaching sites are Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids and Saint Francis Xavier Education Center in Buffalo. She has been married since 2006 and has been blessed with a son. Beckie enjoys spending time with her husband and son, and also likes to read, scrapbook, and watch movies.
Karla Salwasser, FCPI, has been a FertilityCare Practitioner Intern since August 2009, and teaches at Unity Hospital in Fridley. She has a passion for her faith and for natural family planning. This May, Karla will graduate from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Family Social Science. When she is not teaching or working, she enjoys sewing, cooking, playing the clarinet, and planning her August 2010 wedding.
Kristin Schindler, FCP, has been teaching Creighton Model since 2007 at St. Joseph Hospital in St. Paul. As a FertilityCare Practitioner, she enjoys helping couples come to understand their fertility and plan their families with a safe, natural, and scientifically proven method that helps strengthen their relationships. Kristin grew up in St. Louis, MO and moved to the Twin cities in 1997. She received her degree in Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and has completed graduate coursework in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. She has been married since 2004 and has two children.