Heather is an acute-care nurse practitioner, with additional certification as a nephrology nurse practitioner. She earned her Associate’s Degree in Nursing, from Wallace State Community College, in June 1997. After graduation, she worked as a staff nurse at Huntsville Hospital in Med-Surg, emergency department and cardiology unit before continuing her education at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in August 2004, and then her Master of Science in Nursing in December 2006. After graduation, she helped establish the Congestive Heart Failure and Coumadin Clinic at Crestwood Medical Center, working there from 2006-2009. Heather has been employed at Nephrology Consultants since May 2009. She is certified through the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center. Heather is married, with one daughter. She enjoys baking, crocheting, travel, and tending to her animals.