Michelle Kennedy, Nurse Practitioner

 Sitka 

Specialty 

Women’s Health

Certification 

National Certification Corporation (NCC) as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner.

Education 

Michelle earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich. She completed a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner certification program through Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which is affliated with Drexel University in Philadelphia. She currently is exploring a Master of Science in a Nursing completion program through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, N.J. Before coming to SEARHC in 2008, Michelle spent the previous 12-plus years as a public health nurse with the State of Alaska, traveling to Angoon, Yakutat, Pelican and Port Alexander where she worked with CHAPs in providing preventive health care. She has been a nurse for more than 33 years, with a wide variety of nursing experiences in and out of Sitka.

Awards & Honors 

Michelle received the Public Health Nursing Outstanding Professional Award in 2002 and the 2006 Soroptomists International of Sitka Honored Woman Award.

Special Interests: 

Michelle's medical interests include adolescent reproductive health education and both male/female reproductive health. Her nursing specialty is obstetrics/gynecology and reproductive health. She is an instructor with the Community Health Aide/Practitioner training center at SEARHC's Sitka campus and also will see patients at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital.