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NINR Ambassador

Joy Kreskow

​​​Meet your NINR NIH Well-being Ambassador!​
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Hello! My name is​

Joy Kreskow​


I'm so glad to be of service as your NINR​ NIH Well-being Ambassador representative!​​​



​​I'll Be Your NIH Well-being Ambassador!​​

I'm very excited that I get to work with our staff!

In this role I will:
  1. ​Serve as a liaison to the ORS and its wellness partners (NIH Health and Wellness Council, NIH Child Care Board, Aging and Adult-Dependent Care Committee, and the Work-Life Committee).
  2. Represent and promote our IC's initiatives and research.
  3. Actively engage and support integrating well-being into our culture. 
  4. Receive suggestions and recommendations from our staff and the NIH community.
  5. Communicate to the appropriate stakeholder groups and provide input for consideration to the ORS on well-being initiatives, programs, and activities.
  6. Where possible, the Well-being Ambassador will participate in various stakeholder workgroups and committees. ​

Fun Facts About Me

I obviously majored in nursing and became an RN 45 years ago

​​​I became a Nurse Practitioner fifteen years ago.


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I've been working at NIH for almost 22 years

I started as an RN at NINDS and then NHLBI. I left NIH in 1998 and returned as a Nurse Practitioner in 2017 at NINR.


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I was born in Illinois but consider myself a Marylander

I was born in Chicago, moved to Connecticut and New Jersey for 20 years then moved to this area 40 years ago this year! 


Well-being
  • ​Well-being is the state in which every individual:
    1. realizes his or her own potential;
    2. copes with the normal stresses of life;
    3. works productively; and
    4. is able to make a contribution to their community
  • The five interrelated well-being elements are: FinancialPhysicalSocialCommunity, and Career.​
Well-being Ambassadors Program
  • ​​Mission:​
  • – Work directly with key well-being stakeholders to promote, support, and engage the NIH community in advancing the concept of well-being and associated IC initiatives. 

  • ​​Duties and Responsibilities:
  • – Liaison to the Office of Research Services (ORS) and its well-being stakeholder groups that actively support and engage in activities that support employee well-being.​
    – Advocate who actively engages and supports integrating well-being into the IC’s culture.​​​

“The Whole Person Comes to Work”
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Organizational Vision

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"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."  

- John F Kennedy


Thank you for getting to know me, Your NIH Well-being Ambassador.

I am grateful for the warm welcome!​​