Colleen Walters DNP

Dr. Colleen Walters has been a nurse and faculty member for over ten years. As a registered nurse, she worked on an adult medical-surgical unit and in women's health at a pregnancy resource center, and as a nurse practitioner at a school of nursing clinic at Clayton State University and Augusta University's Family Medicine Clinic (FMC). She is currently an associate professor of nursing and family medicine at AU and serves as the director of the DNP program. Dr. Walters is an expert in providing health services to vulnerable populations locally and internationally, and initiating projects to improve health outcomes and enhance student learning. She created and/or directed community engagement service learning projects in Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and, most recently, in rural areas of Scotland.

Dr. Walters also served as an advocate, nurse, and member of the board of directors at the Pregnancy Resource Center in Henry County, Georgia, where she developed an evidence-based group prenatal education and social support program to address issues of high maternal mortality. She continues her advocacy for maternal health on a state-funded grant to improve access to care coordination and remote maternal health monitoring in Georgia. She continues to serve patients across the lifespan at the AU Family Medicine Clinic, where she facilitates an evidence-based intensive lifestyle medicine clinic. In 2022, the lifestyle medicine clinic was recognized for the AUMC team award.