George, Brandy, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Biography

Brandy George, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner Track Coordinator at Husson University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island, and her Master of Science in Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner concentration from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Nursing Practice at Wilkes University, where her scholarly work focuses on quality improvement and the implementation of evidence-based obesity management in primary care.

George has 14 years of experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner, with clinical expertise in primary care. She currently practices primary care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pennsylvania, providing comprehensive care across the lifespan. She is nationally certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board and serves as an active clinical preceptor for graduate nurse practitioner students from several universities throughout the region.

At Husson University, she teaches graduate clinical courses in pediatrics, women's health, family practice, and adult-gerontology. Her approach to graduate nursing education emphasizes clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice, professional development, and mentorship of future advanced practice nurses.

George has a particular interest in substance use disorder treatment and improving access to evidence-based care in primary care settings. During her practice in rural Maine, she became the first provider within her primary care practice to offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder. She worked collaboratively with integrated behavioral health professionals and participated in Project ECHO, an interdisciplinary, case-based collaborative that connected medical and behavioral health clinicians across healthcare organizations to support the treatment of patients with substance use disorders. This experience allowed her to integrate substance use disorder treatment into a full-spectrum rural primary care practice and expand access to care within an underserved community.

Her scholarly interests include obesity medicine, implementation science, primary care quality improvement, substance use disorder treatment, advanced practice provider education, and graduate nursing education. Her Doctor of Nursing Practice project examines the impact of provider education and electronic health record decision-support tools on anti-obesity medication prescribing in primary care.