Amy Montgomery, FACHE | Sheila F. Davies, PhD

Amy Montgomery holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and a Master’s Degree in Health Promotion from East Carolina University. Formerly the hospital’s director of community outreach, Montgomery accepted the senior administrator of operations role in 2015. Montgomery is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She is an established leader in our community. As the health education supervisor for the Dare County Department of Public Health, Montgomery started the Miles of Smiles Mobile Dental Unit and the Peer Power Program. She also led the first Community Health Assessment for Dare County. She was a key member of the committee that started the Outer Banks Marathon and Outer Banks Sporting Events, as part of her seven-year tenure as the executive director of the Dare Education Foundation. She serves on the Boards of Directors for Children and Youth Partnership for Dare County, Outer Banks Relief Foundation and Outer Banks Sporting Events. 

Dr. Sheila Davies serves as the Director of Health and Human Services and Public Health Director for Dare County, North Carolina, a position she has held since 2014. In this role, she oversees public health operations and provides direction for social services and veterans services. Prior to her current position, Dr. Davies coordinated the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program, implementing telepsychiatry services in over 50 hospital emergency departments statewide. She also led Dare County's Substance Abuse Demonstration Project, which included opening an outpatient substance abuse treatment clinic in Nags Head and implementing evidence-based prevention education in all Dare County Schools. In 2011, Dr. Davies was elected mayor of the Town of Kill Devil Hills. She has served on numerous task forces, committees, and boards, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Telemental Health Services expert panel and the N.C. Institute of Medicine’s Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease.