Carole Myers

Carole R. Myers is a Professor Emerita from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing. Myers graduated from the College of Nursing in 1981 with a master’s degree as a family nurse practitioner. In 1982, she and a fellow Nurse Practitioner opened Tennessee’s only nurse-owned clinic at a time when nurse practitioners were not common. Myers was quickly sensitized to rural health and health care needs, and the importance of robust primary care services, and policy as both a facilitator and a barrier to addressing access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services that improve population health outcomes. Myers’s doctoral dissertation on the unrealized promise of TennCare in its first 10 years of operation laid the foundation for a successful academic career at UT and other professional accomplishments. As a College of Nursing faculty member, and nurse researcher and advocate, Myers focused on access to primary care services, particularly among rural populations, featuring nurse