Dr. Linnea Axman is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (NP) and Psychiatric Mental Health NP. She has been a NP for more than 32 years in a variety of environments to include post-war refugee and displaced persons settlements in the Middle East, sub Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. She is an Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and full-time faculty for a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program in a College of Nursing. Dr. Axman is a volunteer provider for a non-profit that delivers care to medically underserved people.
Linnea earned her Doctorate in Public Health from the George Washington University. She received her Master of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Kentucky, a Post-masters Certificate as a PMHNP and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Cincinnati, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Michigan. Dr. Axman is a graduate of the US Naval War College and is an alum of the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives. She is working on a post-graduate credential in Existential Psychotherapy at the Existential Humanistic Institute in northern California.
Linnea retired as a Captain (06) from the United States (US) Navy after 25 years of active naval service. While on active duty, Dr. Axman deployed to Kuwait and Cuba; and she was a Department of Defense Core Team Representative on the US Government Team for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Axman has been a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) since 2005; and, she has received many military and civilian awards.