I believe that open, honest communication and collaboration with my patients and their loved ones is crucial to providing the most appropriate level of care. I try to treat everyone as the unique individual that they are, and with the same respect that I would want for my family.

Education

• Doctor of Nursing Practice, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Master of Science in Nursing, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

Certification

• Adult Acute Care, American Nurses Credentialing Center

Memberships

• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• American Nurses Association
• Phi Delta Phi
• Sigma Theta Tau

• Complex symptom management
• Early integration of palliative care in serious, chronic illness
• Integrative medicine
• Translational research, especially in the areas of complex, chronic diseases such as, congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Parkinson's disease and cancers