Charlotte Smalley is currently working as a nurse practitioner in a private OB/GYN practice in Chattanooga, Tenn. She has been with the WISH* group for over 20 years.

Charlotte has had a varied nursing career prior to her current private practice setting. She has worked as a public health nurse with the Chattanooga Hamilton County Health Department, as a family nurse practitioner and local health director with the Southeast Regional Health Office, and as a family nurse practitioner with the Homeless Health Care Center in Chattanooga.

Charlotte has also been actively involved in the education of nurse practitioner students. She has served as an adjunct professor with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing intermittently over the past 20 years. Charlotte taught the women’s health course for the first FNP class at the UTC School of Nursing in 1996 and continued to teach this course for many future years. She has served as a preceptor for many nurse practitioner students during her career.

Charlotte received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UTHSC in Memphis in 1975. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing in 1979. She is certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is a member of the American Nurses Association, the Tennessee Nurses Association, and Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nursing.

Charlotte received the first annual Champions in Health Care award in the non- physician category for 2016. This award was sponsored in partnership with the Chattanooga Times Free Press and Edge magazine and the Chattanooga Hamilton County Medical Society to honor outstanding health care professionals in the Chattanooga area.

Charlotte has one daughter, Katherine, and resides in Hixson, Tennessee.

*Women’s Institute for Specialized Health currently under direction of ERLANGER HEALTH SYSTEM in Chattanooga.