Managing adolescents with type II diabetes: Promoting a healthy lifestyle. | The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 13(4), e171-e176.
May 12, 2023 - Ceremony for Class of 2023 PhD, DSW, MSW and MSN
Fall 2023 Deadline: Full-Time - April 3
Summer 2023 Deadline: Part-Time/Flex - February 15
Nursing expert, focusing on health care for vulnerable populations across the lifespan.
Nursing expert, focusing on health care for vulnerable populations across the lifespan.
Michelle Zappas is a clinical associate professor and also program and clinical placement director in the Department of Nursing, where she teaches a course on clinical management of adult patients. She currently serves as a per diem nurse practitioner at the Saban Community Clinic in Los Angeles. Prior to joining USC, she was an assistant clinical professor in nursing at Columbia University. She also worked as a nurse practitioner at the medical center, providing primary medical care to the university’s health sciences students. In addition, she served as a family nurse practitioner and director of nursing at a community-based clinic in New York’s South Bronx. There she worked to provide evidence-based, preventative and cost-effective health care to a diverse patient population across the lifespan. Zappas received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in nursing practice from Columbia University. She earned a bachelor’s in animal physiology and neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego.
DNP 2012
MSN 2009
BSN 2007
BS 2001
Managing adolescents with type II diabetes: Promoting a healthy lifestyle. | The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 13(4), e171-e176.
Use of incretin therapy in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus | The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Using a patient panel of case studies to teach across the FNP curriculum. | Journal of Nursing Education. (In Press)
Managing adolescents with type 2 diabetes mellitus | The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
The use of Anti-Retroviral Therapy in the Prevention of HIV Transmission among Serodiscordant Couples. | Clinical Scholars Review
A 44-year-old female with metastatic cancer pain | Oncology Nursing Society
Natural history of pain following Herpes Zoster | Pain
Assessment of cutaneous nociceptor function by capsaicin response test during and after acute herpes zoster | 55th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Neurology, Honolulu, Hawaii. Neurology, 60(5), A155.
Symptoms suggesting reflex-sympathetic dystrophy following acute herpes zoster | 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting, American Pain Society, Chicago. The Journal of Pain, 4(2), 14.
Podium presentation at the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2017 National Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Podium presentation at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties 44th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN. Poster presentation at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties 44th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN. Podium presentation at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties 43rd Annual Conference, Washington D.C. Podium Presentation at the California Association of Nurse Practitioners 2018 National Conference, San Diego, CA. Podium Presentation at the California Association of Nurse Practitioners 2017 National Conference, San Francisco, CA.