many people really did expect miracles she added when i give what i know are appropriate answers i know i sound like a bureaucratic stickinthemud this lady is not worth two bits to us she talks about coordination and cooperation blahbut part of my mission dr gebbie continued is to help people keep their expectations within realityseveral aids activist organizations demanded that she be replaced and she did not last long in the job she resigned after 13 months in july 1994during dr gebbies tenure president clinton said in a statement at the time the federal government had increased funding and other resources for prevention and research sped the research and approval process for new drugs and required every federal employee to receive comprehensive workplace education he thanked her for giving this vitally important battle a lift when one was desperately needed and long overduekristine elizabeth moore was born on june 26 1943 in sioux city iowa to thomas moore a career officer in the army and irene stewart moore who worked for the us fish and wildlife serviceshe moved from panama to the philippines to new mexico as her father was redeployed in the military she was also raised for a time by her maternal grandparents in miles city mont she was inspired by an aunt susie stewart to enter nursing and worked as a nurses aide in high schoolshe earned her bachelor of science degree in nursing from st olaf college in minnesota in 1965 her masters in community mental health from the university of california los angeles in 1968 and her doctorate in public health from the university of michigan in 1995she served as the oregon state health administrator from 1978 to 1989 and the washington state secretary of health from 1989 to 1993imagecreditvia eileen gebbieas an epidemiologist and an authority on emergency preparedness she was a member of the aids task force for the american association of state and territorial health officials and was later enlisted by reagans white house aids commission even though she had criticized the reagan administrations response to the epidemic as inadequateshe was a professor of nursing at the columbia university school of nursing and director of columbias center for health policy from 1994 to 2008 she was dean of the hunterbellevue school of nursing from 2008 to 2010she taught at flinders universitys torrens resilience initiative and the university of adelaide nursing school in australia where she had moved with her husband lester nils wright a physician and where they both retired dr wright died last monthher first marriage to neil gebbie ended in divorce in addition to her daughter eileen she is survived by two other children from her first marriage anna and eric gebbie her stepsons jason and nathan wright her sister sina ann 10 grandchildren and one greatgranddaughter