Michele Bunker-Alberts, DNP, APRN-FNP-BC, IBCLC
Michele earned her BA in nursing at San Francisco State University in 1991, her MSN/FNP at U.C. San Francisco in 2004, and her Doctor of Nursing Practice at Western University Health Sciences Pomona in 2015. She has been a RN since 1997, Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner since 2004, and Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultant since 2000.
Her doctoral project was “Bite to Balance,” a family intervention for pediatric food insecurity and obesity. For her MSN, she completed a breastfeeding project for low income women. 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 and lectures in the Master’s and Doctoral Programs and recently developed and co-taught an inter-professional breastfeeding course in the School of Medicine.
She is a founding member of One Love Center for Health, currently serving unhoused residents in Solano County, and provides ambulatory clinical care for women and children in the safety net. She clinically precepts and mentors graduate, advanced practice and medical students.
Michele recently completed the Napa Infant Parent Mental Health Fellowship in which her final project integrated core neuro-developmental concepts into her clinical and didactic teaching.
