Kristi Wilson

Kristi Wilson is the Associate Dean over the graduate program at the School of Nursing at University of Michigan, Flint, a role she has held in formal leadership since 2022. She entered nursing after graduating from Hurley School of Nursing in Flint, Michigan in 1986 and spent years at the bedside until retiring from the hospital in 2005, while continuing to practice as a nurse practitioner. Her clinical experience spans primary care, bariatric surgery, GI surgery, endocrinology, and neuroanatomical acupuncture, for which she holds certification. Wilson also teaches and leads in higher education, having transitioned to full-time teaching in 2005. She serves as president of the Pi Delta Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society and maintains memberships in the Academy of Detox Acupuncture and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty. Wilson values questioning established practices and seeing individuals for who they are, which she applies both at the bedside and in her leadership role to empower faculty and students.