Michele Bunker-Alberts, FNP-BC

Michele Bunker-Alberts is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with a sub-specialty in womens health, Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, since 2004 providing safety net and public healthcare in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Bunker-Alberts earned her doctorate with a policy project, Bite to Balance, in 2015 - an intervention for pediatric food insecurity and subsequent obesity in vulnerable communities from Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, Ca., and her Masters with a breastfeeding project for low-income women from the University of California, San Francisco. She is Chair of the FNP Program and an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Nursing at Touro University Ca. where she teaches, serves as an advisor in the Masters and Doctoral Programs and interprofessionally in the School of Medicine. She is also a founding member of a community health promotions group serving unhoused individuals and works with families in ambulatory care; she clinically precepts and mentors graduate, advanced practice and medical students. Michele is currently working to integrate core neurodevelopmental and cultural humility concepts into clinical and didactic teaching of graduate nursing specifically for advanced practice and primary care.