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Audrey Kreke
DNP, FNP-C
Assistant Professor
Health Promotion & Development
Profile
Dr. Kreke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Development. She works clinically as a Nurse Practitioner at UPMC Community Medicine and as a Nurse Practitioner with Heritage Hospice. Within the larger community, she provides mentoring support to new-to-practice nurse practitioners.
Dr. Kreke received her BSN (2010) from the University of Pennsylvania and her DNP (Family Nurse Practitioner specialty, 2017) from the University of Pittsburgh. She was certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board in 2017.
Clinical Emphasis
Dr. Kreke has over 12 years of clinical nursing experience in both acute and primary care settings. As a Nurse Practitioner at UPMC Community Medicine, she independently provides comprehensive primary care to adult patients with complex and chronic diseases. She also uses her clinical expertise to provide hospice recertification evaluations for Heritage Hospice.
Scholarly Emphasis
Dr. Kreke has presented in the field of primary care with a focus on strategies for promoting cancer screenings and using lifestyle interventions for chronic disease. Her current projects focus on using a population health strategy with lifestyle interventions to improve control of both hypertension and Type 2 diabetes in primary care. She is also interested in the roles for nurse practitioners in population health management and quality improvement within large organizations.
Teaching
Dr. Kreke teaches in the Family Nurse Practitioner Area of Concentration. She teaches in both the DNP and BSN Programs. Current courses she is responsible for include Diagnostic Physical Examination Across the Lifespan lecture and lab, Differential Diagnosis Clinical, Management of Adult Acute/Chronic Disease lecture and clinical, NP Role Seminar 2, and NP Role Practicum clinical. She is also faculty for the Transitions course for senior BSN students.
Service
She has been a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners since 2016 and the Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners since 2017. She is an active member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing since 2010. She serves as an Advanced Practice Provider mentor in the UPMC OAPP Mentor Me program.