Demetra Boudreaux Ridge has been a Hemophilia Nurse Specialist since July 2019. She began her nursing careen in 1986 as an LPN. Continuing her nursing education, she was one of four students selected for Charity Delgado’s first LPN-RN program in 1995. She began a career in dialysis in 1989 and went on to serve as a dialysis clinic manager for 11 years.  

She achieved a perfect rating from DHH with the opening of a new dialysis clinic in 2017. She started the new medical education program in St. John the Baptist Parish school and remained there for 7 years. Currently she works with females with bleeding disorders. Demetra would describe her nursing career choice as “going from cleaning blood to clotting it”.  Nursing was not her first career choice as she originally wanted to be a schoolteacher. She loves Red, shopping, talking and learning about other cultures and practices.