Specializing in cosmetic/plastic surgery recovery complications
Maggie Lockridge, R.N.
P.O. Box 1931
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
Contact information
310 245 6775
MAGGIE LOCKRIDGE
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education, Recognition and Awards
• St. Elizabeth's Hospital School of Nursing, Registered Nurse
• Recognition by Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator, for services provided wounded American warriors.
• Recognition by U.S. Army for unselfish support of Brooke Army Medical Center
• Recognition by Tempered Steel for contributions Honoring the Wounds of War
• BBC TV acknowledgement as one of 25 entrepreneurial American women in 1998
• Who's Who of Nursing 2006
Professional Experience
2007 to Present
President/Founder: Rebuilding America's Warriors www.rebuildingamericaswarriors.org
Established national non-profit organization to provide free aesthetic plastic and reconstructive surgery to wounded and disfigured American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Comprised of 420 Board Certified surgeons and dentists in 48 states.
1998 to 2005
Owner/Administrator of Shanteque, exclusive plastic/cosmetic surgery aftercare facility functioning out of luxury Los Angeles and Beverly Hills hotels. Averaged 35 employees, 14 patient rooms, 160 to 230 patients a month. Served 6 Los Angeles plastic surgeons.
1994 to 1998
Administrator of Chantique, private plastic surgery aftercare facility in Los Angeles.
1987 to 1993
Charge R.N. then Administrator of Le Petit Ermitage, Beverly Hills primary plastic/cosmetic surgery aftercare facility functioning out of five star Hotel L'Ermitage.
State Licensure
Registered Nurse state of California # 420266
Publications
Facelift Hotel, 2005, available Amazon.com
ABOUT MAGGIE LOCKRIDGE
Maggie's first year as an R.N. was spent at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital in NYC as a surgical nurse. Next came a two year employment as an Industrial Nurse at the General Motors Futurama Pavilion during the World's Fair of 1964-1965 in Flushing N.Y. Maggie joined the U.S.A.F.N.C. (United States Air Force Nurse Corps) in 1966 and married a fighter pilot in 1967. They were blessed with two beautiful children and raised them in Hawaii.
In 1986 she moved to Los Angeles and spent the next eighteen years in the plastic surgery aftercare business. These years included her position as owner/administrator of Shanteque, a recovery facility for clientele undergoing procedures, guests from around the country and from every corner of the world. Maggie was referred to by writers as "The most recognized and least acknowledged woman in Beverly Hills." So many women of Beverly Hills had been her guest and under her care, but no one knew her in public. Maggie has administered to the aftercare of over 40,000 guests.
Her guest list ranged from actors and actresses, business men and women, politicians, the socially prominent and to men and women from all walks of life who desire to fight grandmother nature or embellish her work. Los Angeles has been designated as the cosmetic surgery capital of the world with more surgical procedures taking place there than any other city. Maggie feels that her job was unique to her profession and could probably only succeed in the city of beauty, Los Angeles. She sold the business in 2005.
2006 was spent writing a book titled FACELIFT HOTEL, available on Amazon.com. Divided into 3 parts it shares #1 the drama and hysterics of daily life at Shanteque, #2 what the reality is of undergoing cosmetic procedures regarding pain, swelling, bruising etc., and #3 her favorite surgeons and the procedures they excel at in the Los Angeles area.
In February of 2007 Maggie watched the Bob Woodruff special on TV. Bob was the journalist who received a traumatic brain injury while covering the war in Iraq. He took his viewers into the VA hospitals and it was painfully apparent that the aesthetics of their wounds were not being addressed. Shrapnel was being left in faces and the scars of 2nd degree burns were left to heal on their own, leaving unsightly scarring. Maggie founded "Iraq Star Inc." It's primary objective is "Not to let the Iraq and Afghanistan wars permanently disfigure young lives." Iraq Star now has 290 Board Certified Surgeons in 47 states, volunteering their skills and surgicenters, and feeling honored to do so.
In Jan. of 2012 a dba was added to Iraq Star Inc. It is now referred to as R.A.W. Rebuilding America's Warriors. This name is more definitive of Iraq Star's mission. America is no longer involved only in Iraq but also Afghanistan and, most likely, more wars are in our future