Biography
Dr. Hessock is a clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and serves as the post-master’s DNP concentration coordinator. Her teaching responsibilities include graduate-level evidence-based practice and undergraduate maternal/newborn nursing. Her scholarly work has focused on menstrual equity and the implementation of evidence-based Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer risk assessment. As a nurse practitioner, her practice interests include adolescent sexual and reproductive health, contraception, preventive care, and evidence-based practice improvement. Dr. Hessock is a peer reviewer for Nursing in Women’s Health and The Nurse Practitioner and serves as faculty advisor for the Period. @ UT student organization. She is an active member of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH), the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), the Tennessee Nurses Association (TNA) and Sigma Theta Tau.A proud UT alumni, Dr. Hessock earned a DNP from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and an MSN with a family nurse practitioner concentration from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She began her career as a registered nurse with an AASN from Northern Virginia Community College and completed her BSN at Troy State University in Alabama.