Pamela Cipriano, DNP

About Pamela Cipriano

Pamela Cipriano is a nurse practitioner with a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Maryville University. She also holds a master's degree from the University of Connecticut, where she trained as an acute care nurse practitioner. Her nursing diploma is from St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing in 1993.

Her doctoral dissertation was on preventing the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes. She is continuing her education in functional medicine through Functional Medicine University. She trained under a Lyme disease specialist and under nurse practitioner Ruth Kris, who focuses on chronic urinary tract infections and interstitial cystitis.

She is also trained in functional genomics testing through IntellxxDNA. Her past work includes roles as a surgical hospitalist, medical hospitalist, ER provider and primary care practitioner. She opened The Practice of Health and Wellness in November 2016 and is its founder and chief executive officer.

She was the first nurse practitioner in Connecticut to open a solo medical practice after a 2014 law let nurse practitioners work on their own. Her care is personalized and focused on root causes. She specializes in mold-related illness.

She is very active and encourages patients to be as active as possible.