Stacy entered the US Air Force in 1988 as a medical specialist and subsequently served the US Army as a nurse. She obtained her BSN from Beth El College of Nursing from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs while on scholarship as a ROTC cadet. Stacy gained experience across numerous healthcare settings before hyperbaric medicine.

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In 2001, Stacy joined the NBS as hyperbaric nurse manager at Memorial Hospital, in Colorado Springs. Over the ensuing four years she trained as a Hyperbaric Safety Director and an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Facility Accreditation Nurse Surveyor. In 2005, Stacy graduated from the WOCN approved Wound Care Specialty Program at the Medical University of South Carolina and certified as a Certified Wound Care Nurse (CWCN).

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Stacy became Corporate Director of Operations in 2004 and was subsequently promoted to Vice President two years later. Her principal responsibilities involve client development and education, coordination and oversight of new programs. Stacy is a widely acknowledged subject matter expert on technical, safety, operations, patient care and compliance aspects of hyperbaric medicine and wound care.

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Stacy is frequently invited to lecture nationally and internationally, is a long-standing ‘Primary Training in Hyperbaric Medicine’ faculty member, program planner for the NBS advanced hyperbaric conference series and UHMS Associate annual scientific meeting sessions. She initiated the highly regarded ‘Ask the Experts’ forum and serves as a key responder. She is a monthly contributor to NBS Safety and Compliance Notices and co-authored the chapter Hyperbaric History and the Nursing Evolution in the Hyperbaric Nursing and Wound Care textbook.

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Stacy held numerous leadership positions within the UHMS, key of which was the first registered nurse to be elected to its Board of Directors, as the Nurse Representative. She serves as a subject matter expert facility accreditation program surveyor on behalf of the National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology.