Redefine Your Future

Dr. Diaz joined the New York State Army National Guard in 1983. In 1993, he decided to enroll in
nursing school and attended the Albany Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, where he graduated with
his diploma in nursing with honors. He immediately took bridge courses and began the family nurse
practitioner program at Sage Graduate School, where he graduated in May 1998 with a Master of Science
and certificate as a family nurse practitioner. He continued his education, receiving a post-master’s
certificate as a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.

In 1999, Dr. Diaz went on active duty in the army as a family nurse practitioner; he was first stationed at
the Family Medicine Clinic at Brooke Army Medical Center. In 2003, he was sent to Camp Casey, South
Korea, where he was the head nurse for a 10,000-patient military clinic. His next duty station was the
Tripler Army Medical Center in Oahu, Hawaii. This was his last active-duty military assignment, and he
afterwards returned to San Antonio, Texas, where he retired as a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve Nurse
Corps. In May 2007, he began the Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) Degree in Psychiatry program at
the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and graduated with honors in May 2009.

Dr. Diaz is certified through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (A.N.C.C.) as a Family Nurse
Practitioner and a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. He loves traveling and spending time
with his wife Sandy and son Jacob. The family has two Labradors, Grizzly and Smokey.