{"id":5924,"date":"2019-03-25T12:35:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:19:32","slug":"dr-courtney-j-pitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/2019\/03\/25\/dr-courtney-j-pitts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Courtney J. Pitts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/03\/courtney-Pitts.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5954 alignleft\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/03\/courtney-Pitts.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/03\/courtney-Pitts.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2019\/03\/courtney-Pitts-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> <\/a> <strong>Dr. Courtney J. Pitts<\/strong> received her BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Jackson State University, a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at Vanderbilt University.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDr. Pitts is the Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the Academic Director of the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and the Co-Academic Director of the Nurse-Midwifery\/Family Nurse Practitioner programs. She is also an advisor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs a leader in NP education, Dr. Pitts focus is on racial and ethnic diversity within nurse practitioner education. Her scholarship addresses the promotion of a sense of community and mentorship among nurse practitioner students in hybrid learning environments, as well as HIV and primary care.&nbsp; She has served two consecutive terms as a Board Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF).&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tClinically, Dr. Pitts is an experienced FNP who currently practices primary care in a Ryan White-funded clinical setting where she provides HIV management and care to individuals with HIV. She is also experienced in primary care in a family\/internal medicine urban setting. She is a member of the NONPF, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Courtney J. Pitts received her BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Jackson State University, a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Alabama at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}