Overview

Brittany is a Senior Research Nurse specialising in diabetes. She initially trained to be a Registered Nurse, graduating in 2013 from Simmons University in Boston, United States. She practiced as a Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator for 4 years at Joslin Diabetes Center in the United States while simultaneously training to become a Nurse Practitioner. She then went on to practice as a Clinical Research Nurse Practitioner for over 3 years at Joslin. She worked on a variety of preventive and new-onset type 1 diabetes clinical research trials as well as managing care for individuals with prediabetes, type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Brittany moved to the United Kingdom in 2020 to join the diabetes research team at Exeter. She will be working in the NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility (CRF) as a Senior Research Nurse on a variety of diabetes studies, with a focus on monogenic diabetes. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Simmons University, 2012
• Registered Nurse (RN), 2013
• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Simmons University, 2016                                                          
• Family Nurse Practitioner- Board Certified (FNP-BC), 2016                                                                                                                                                                            

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Research

Research interests

• Monogenic Diabetes
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Prediabetes
• Experimental medicine

Research projects

• EXE-T1D
• TriMaster
• StartRight
• DROPLet
• TIGI Extension
• NIHR BioResource – Rare Diseases

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