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Megan Williams, MSN, RN, FNP

Clinical Assistant Professor

UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Carrington Hall, CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Office: 5101

Phone: (919) 966-6999

Email: mpwilliams@unc.edu

Specialty Area: Children’s Health

Megan Williams, MSN, RN, FNP is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing (SON). She started her career as a staff nurse at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC). While working at Duke she completed her MSN/FNP at Duke University SON. She has extensive experience working with both pediatric patients and adult patients in diverse care settings – acute & critical care, primary care and student health. She has held a number of practice roles prior to joining the School of Nursing at UNC in 2003, including Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) at Oxford Family Physicians, and FNP at Duke Medical Center in the PICU. Her primary interests are in the care of the pediatric hospitalized patient, primary care, developing future nursing leaders and in advancing nursing education both in the classroom and clinical settings. Currently, she practices as a FNP in the acute care after-hours clinic at UNC Campus Health. Megan understands the value of giving back to the profession of nursing. At the state level, in 2007 she took a leadership position in the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) Triangle Region as the secretary and she also was asked to be the faculty advisor for the UNC-CH SON Association of Nursing Students. In 2008, she was appointed as the President-elect of the Triangle Region, and served as President from 2009-2011. In the fall of 2011, Megan was elected as President-elect of NCNA. At the national level, she has served as a NC delegate to the American Nurses Association (ANA), and was elected in 2010 to serve a 2-year term on the ANA Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics.