Michelle Scotton Franklin, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC

Michelle Franklin completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing at UNC Chapel Hill and has dual certification as both a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. She provides care for patients at all the levels of care within our eating disorder program. Her role includes completing initial psychiatric and medical diagnostic evaluations within both the inpatient and Partial Hospitalization patient populations and continuing care until their discharge as well as maintaining an outpatient practice. She provides complete psychiatric diagnostic evaluations for intakes into the eating disorder program and performs physical assessments for the research participants in the active research studies being conducted here at UNC for eating disorders. Michelle is passionate about working with individuals with eating disorders as she particularly enjoys partnering with each individual working to assist them with achieving improved health and happiness.