Tresa Wiggins, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC

Tresa Wiggins, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC

Tresa M. Wiggins, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC Tresa is the nurse practitioner at The Rales Health Center at the KIPP School of Baltimore, where she has been working since it opened in 2016. In addition to her clinical work caring for the students at KIPP, she is the vision program manager of the GOSEE program, through which she coordinates expanded vision screening, optometric services, and vision case management. She has presented this work at the national school-based health care convention and locally. She has also worked with the attendance team at the school, and the youth advisory council.In 2007, Tresa joined Johns Hopkins as a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive care unit. She has worked at a pediatric walk-in clinic in Howard County, MD, where she provided both acute and primary care for patients up to the age of 21 and travels annually to a community in Haiti to provide direct patient care as a nurse practitioner.Tresa graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and became a pediatric nurse practitioner in 2011, after she received a Master of Science in Nursing from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. During nursing school, she worked in Cleveland public schools and provided care on the Gila River Indian community in Phoenix, AZ. Tresa's interests and focus in her profession are in increasing access to high quality health care in underserved communities, and advocate to decrease health inequities facing children and their families.