Maria Juliet Pineda, MSN, APRN-Rx, FNP-BC, NCSN*

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Biography

Maria Juliet Pineda offers school-based health center and nursing services as the APRN housed at Barbers Point Elementary School. Pineda has been a family nurse practitioner (FNP) since 2008, specializing in primary care with national board certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).  In addition to advanced practice nursing, her experience as a Registered Nurse includes 5 years of school nursing in Las Vegas, Nevada, and working in a private pediatric clinic prior to moving to Hawaii with her family.

Before joining the Hawaii Keiki program in 2017, Pineda worked at the Kapiolani Child Protection Center as well as in family medicine and neurology practices. She was one of the founding health care providers for The Queen’s West After Hours Center since it’s conception 2017 and continues in her role as a health care provider there on an as-needed basis.

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