Associate Professor
USUHS
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Candy Wilson, PhD, APRN, WHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Colonel, US Air Force, Nurse Corps
Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing
Colonel Candy Wilson is an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing. Dr. Wilson is a Colonel in the United States Air Force and has served in the active duty forces for 29 years and assigned as a nurse scientist for 15 years. Throughout her nursing and military career, she has provided patient care to military beneficiaries as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. While in Afghanistan, she provided humanitarian care to women and children in remote villages, who previously received no health care.
Dr. Wilson’s interest in symptom science research through an occupational health focus addressed military women’s health needs in three prominent areas that led to changing health care practice through both policy and education. Being responsive to the changing military mission demands, these areas were: illness behaviors of deployed military women managing genitourinary symptoms; maintaining healthy iron status for female trainees; and integrative medicine low back pain treatments. Her work directly provided health evidence that optimally supported women while they continued to forge a path in traditionally male-dominated positions. She co-authored a systematic review of the published data to inform the United States Congress on the research gaps that can impact military women in austere settings. She is one of the founding members, and now leader, of the Military Women’s Health Research Interest Group (MWHRIG) sponsored by the TriService Nursing Research Program. She has over 40 publications and presented her research nationally and internationally.
Dr. Wilson received her BSN from Western Kentucky University, her MSN from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, her MHS from Duke University, and her PhD from the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center.
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