Faculty Profile

Lisa Chappell, PhD, FNP-BC

  • Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Associate Professor
  • Department Chair of Family Nursing
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Biography

Lisa Chappell is the Chair for the Department of Family Nursing since January 2014. She has worked as faculty at Frontier Nursing University since January 2009. Dr. Chappell has been a nurse for 40 years including 20 years as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Auburn University, a Master of Science in Nursing from University of Alabama in Birmingham as a Maternal-Infant Nurse Specialist and a second MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She earned a PhD in Nursing from the Medical College of Georgia in 2007. Her clinical practice experience as a nurse practitioner includes rural clinics, emergency medicine, student health, a psychiatric facility, and correctional medicine. Dr. Chappell has 17 years of teaching experience mostly at the graduate level with nurse practitioners.