Meet the Staff
Gidget Wood, RN, MSN, FNP-C
Administrative Director
Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner
Gidget Wood graduated from Azusa Pacific University with her BSN in 1986 and her MSN, Nurse Practitioner in 2004. Since January 2005, Wood has been the women’s health nurse practitioner at the Student Health Center. Since January 2008, Wood has taken on the leadership of the Health Center as administrative director. She brings five years of experience as a clinical lead nurse at CHLA and 14 years of experience as a neonatal nurse at Huntington Memorial Hospital. While at Huntington, she worked as a flight transport nurse and an ECMO specialist.
While her focus is on the leadership of the Health Center, Wood has a heart and passion for the female students of APU. She is committed to providing quality, personable women’s health services. Services include Pap smears and premarital consultations as well as care for female issues. Wood spends time in the community of APU educating and addressing sexual issues, contraception, and STD awareness.
Wood is married to another APU alumnus and has three sons.
Todd Emerson, D.O.
Medical Director
Dr. Emerson earned a B.A. in Biology at Azusa Pacific University in 1992 and his osteopathic medical degree in 1996 from Kansas City University of Medicine. He completed a three-year residency in Family Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona in 1999 and is board-certified in Family Medicine.
Prior to coming to APU, Dr. Emerson practiced in Everett, Washington for eight and a half years where he had a busy family practice that included sports medicine and obstetrics. He and his wife, Gina, have been married for almost nine years and have two young children.
In addition to taking care of athletes, Dr. Emerson enjoys going on mission trips and running.
Kathy Lindenmayer, RN, MSN, FNP-C
Nurse Practitioner
Kathy Lindenmayer is an MSN graduate of Azusa Pacific University. She has been a registered nurse for 26 years and a nurse practitioner for nine years. She has extensive nursing experience in public health, school nursing, and family practice.
Lindenmayer’s great loves include her three dogs, two cats, and her fiancé.
Colleen Montz, RN
Registered Nurse
Colleen Montz graduated from nursing school at Mount San Antonio College. She started her nursing career at San Antonio Community Hospital as a cardiac nurse. She then worked in end-of-life care with a hospice in Placentia. Montz came to the Student Health Center in 2005. She is passionate about tobacco education having seen first-hand the destructive results of smoking while caring for her cardiac and hospice patients. She has developed a smoking cessation program here at APU and is available for one-on-one smoking cessation counseling services on a walk-in basis at the Student Health Center.
Montz has been married for 25 years and is a mother of three young women. She has been a member of Grace Church of La Verne for 25 years.
Sandy Van Iwaarden, RN, BSN
Medical Liaison
Sandy Van Iwaarden graduated from Azusa Pacific University with her BSN in 1991. She worked at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. While at Pomona, she also was an NICU transport nurse and patient care coordinator. Van Iwaarden previously worked for APU as the occupational health nurse for a year and came back to work in the APU Health Center in 2007. She currently assists in coordinating the Travel Medicine Clinic and is the medical liaison for APU’s Incident Command Team.
Van Iwaarden is actively involved in Mexico Outreach and Walkabout.
She has been married to another APU alumnus for 15 years. They have a son and a daughter.
Cheryl Holland
Office Manager
Cheryl Holland has been with the Student Health Center since 1996. She is responsible for and oversees the day-to-day office functions, health records, and training of student workers. Prior to coming to APU she directed the front office operations of an oral surgeon office for five years and then a dental practice for nine years. She also has operated two successful businesses in sales for seven years, winning many top sales and recruiting awards.
Holland has been a member of Cornerstone Bible Church in Glendora for 15 years where she sings in choir and is an active part of their worship team. She has been married for 37 years and has two grown sons and four grandchildren.
Joyce “Tickie” Moline
Insurance Consultant
Tickie Moline was born in Glendora and raised in Azusa. She graduated from Citrus Union High School and also attended Citrus College for a year. She married in 1953 and when her husband was drafted into the Army, she moved to Pacific Grove near Fort Ord where she worked at Lighthouse Pharmacy. Two years later, she returned to Azusa and went to work for Hankins Medical Group where she worked in the front office. After 29 years there, she had the opportunity to work at Citrus Orthopaedic Medical Group where she did the billing and insurance. Eight years later she retired.
In 1999, shortly after her husband passed away, Moline took a two-month temporary position in the Student Health Center at APU. She was asked to stay and work part-time doing insurance, billing, and referrals.
Moline has two children and five grandchildren. She is president of the Citrus Alumni Association. She also enjoys knitting, crocheting, sewing, and baking.
