Full Name
Nicole Seagriff APRN
Job Title
DNP, FNP-BC, APRN
Company
The Community Health Center
Speaker Bio
Dr Nicole Seagriff attended Boston College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2007. Upon graduation she began work as a Registered Nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Yale New Haven Hospital while completing her Master of Nursing degree at Yale University in 2011 to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. While at Yale she recognized the need for access to primary care services for underserved patients and chose to complete an additional year of training through the nation's first nurse practitioner residency program at The Community Health Center, Inc (CHCI) based in Middletown, CT. Since completion of the residency program in 2012 she has worked as a primary care provider at CHCI. Concurrently, she serves as the On-Site Medical Director of the Norwalk and Stamford locations of the Community Health Center managing clinical operations of three health centers since 2015.  In 2016 she graduated with her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Duke University with a focus on genetic testing for breast cancer mutations in underserved populations. With an intention to use the leadership skills acquired from her training at Duke, she became the Clinical Program Director overseeing the clinical aspects of the Nurse Practitioner Residency Training Program. In addition to work, she is the President of The Pink Agenda which is a 503© dedicated to raising money and awareness among young professionals for breast cancer research.  Since its inception The Pink Agenda has raised over $7 million for life saving research.