Greenville resident, Nash Community College teacher receives honor

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. – Nash Community College is proud to announce that its very own, Amber Greer, received the prominent Mary S. Grubb Award presented by the North Carolina Society of Medical Assistants.

“We are extremely proud of her and this substantial accomplishment in her professional and personal life,” said Dr. Lew K. Hunnicutt, president of NCC. “This honor doesn’t surprise me because she has extended this work-ethic into our SkillsUSA Framework that is built throughout our curriculum instruction.”

Greer currently serves as the Director of Medical Assisting, Practicum Coordinator and Professor for the program. She has been a member of the NCC faculty since 2012 and previously served in a medical assistant role at the East Carolina Heart Institute a ECU.

This award is the highest level of excellence of a medical assistant professional.

The award was named in honor of one of the first Vice Presidents in NCSMA who passed away from cancer before taking the office of President. Last awarded in 2015, it is only given to members who have made outstanding contributions to NCSMA.

Her nominator, Rebecca Walker, CMA (AAMA), noted the following regarding Greer’s work-ethic, innovativeness and leadership:

Amber is the ideal choice as a recipient of NCSMA’s Mary S. Grubb Award. When she first became active in the organization, she took on the challenge of reviving her local chapter, the Pitt County Chapter which was inactive due to lack of leadership. She reorganized and invigorated the chapter. She remains steadfast and continues to work to make the chapter more participatory both on the local and state levels. She has served as its President for many years and was the chair of the NCSMA Winter Seminar hosted by the chapter in 2022. Often, she is the

lone representative of the chapter to NCSMA Board of Directors meetings or to the House of Delegates, but she continues in that role to ensure the chapter is represented and that they have a voice in the business of NCSMA.

Amber is a leader, who is organized, responsible, fair and able to make well thought out decisions. She also has the vision to see what can be, realistic enough to understand what is possible and the ability to somehow make it happen anyway. She is committed to all levels of AAMA and has demonstrated her commitment by working diligently to promote the medical assisting profession by furthering the aims of NCSMA and AAMA. Amber expects no award for her service, but she is eager to nominate and support others for awards. This is the mark of recognizing others rather than awarding herself. She is a great example of someone who deserves to be a recipient of the Mary S. Grubb Award.

Greer has served in various capacities throughout both the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) and North Carolina Society of Medical Assistants (NCSMA). These include currently serving as the National Chair of the Continuing Education Board of AAMA and Website Committee Chair in the NCSMA. Her former roles include National Vice Chair of the Continuing Education Board and Leaders in Education and Practice (LEAP) Task Force Member for the AAMA and Immediate Past President, Nominating Committee Chair, Secretary, and Parliamentarian for the NCSMA.

She earned a Bachelor of Science focused in Business Administration from Mount Olive College and an Associate Degree of Applied Science from Pitt Community College focused in Medical Assisting. Greer is a certified Phlebotomist (American Society for Clinical Pathology), Certified Medical Assistant (American Association of Medical Assistants), certified Level one and Level two Online Instructor (North Carolina Community College System), Master Instructor for Higher Education Certification from NCC and a member of the Delta Mu Delta International Business Honor Society, NC Association of Medical Assisting Educators, NC Society of Medical Assistants and American Association of Medical Assistants.

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