The University has announced the appointment of 1997 alumna Margaret Trout as director of the Health Center, according to Rev. Gerard Olinger, C.S.C., vice president for student affairs.
Trout comes to The Bluff from Willamette University, where she served as director of the Bishop Wellness Center for the past 10 years. She was peer-nominated and awarded Willamette University’s Administrator of the Year in 2013.
Prior to her time at Willamette, Trout worked as a nurse manager and assistant director at the Center for Student Health and Counseling at Portland State University for five years. Trout graduated from the University of Portland with a nursing degree and holds an MBA from Willamette University. She has been active with Oregon College Health Association for the last 15 years and is a past co-chair of the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force, Campus Committee. An avid cyclist, Trout is a member of Women on Wheels, a local group that seeks to empower women to travel by bicycle and other alternative modes of transportation.
For more information, contact Fr. Olinger’s office at 8532 or nielsenk@up.edu.