Michelle Scotton Franklin PhD

Michelle joined Duke-Margolis as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Duke University Department of Psychiatry and a core faculty at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy specializing in intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD). She earned her PhD in Nursing from Duke University (2020) and completed her postdoctoral studies at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy (2020-2022). Before that, she earned her BSN (2003) and MSN (2009) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). She achieved dual certification as a family nurse practitioner and a family psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. Michelle's foci are research projects specific to pediatric integrated care within North Carolina, the Center’s ongoing COVID response as well the Center’s educational initiatives, and mentoring students and scholars. Before coming to Duke, she specialized in providing integrated primary care and mental health services to individuals of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout North Carolina. She continues to serve as adjunct faculty within the UNC-CH Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities and the UNC-CH School of Nursing.