Audrey Darville, PhD, APRN, NCTTP, FAANP
Associate Professor, Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist
Audrey Darville has been a family nurse practitioner since 1998 and has worked in free clinics in addition to traditional care service settings. Serving on the faculty of the College of Nursing since 1999, she is currently an Associate Professor, Clinical Title Series. As a certified tobacco treatment specialist with the University of Kentucky health care system, she has worked with in-patients, outpatients, and currently works with employees to provide group and intensive individual tobacco dependence treatment. She is the co-director of the Tobacco Prevention & Treatment Division with the BREATHE (Bridging Research Efforts and Advocacy Toward Healthy Environments) research team in the College of Nursing. Dr. Darville is the course director for the accredited BREATHE online Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program, which launched in 2017. She is past-president of the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD), a fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, a member of the Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives (KCNPNM), Sigma Theta Tau and on the treatment advisory panel for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). Her research interests are developing behavioral strategies to reach and treat tobacco users with medical illness and exploring novel ways to provide tobacco treatment education to healthcare providers.
Education
- PhD, University of Kentucky, 2012
- MSN, University of Kentucky, 1998
- BSN, Valparaiso University, 1978
Interests
- Tobacco use in persons with medical illness
- Tobacco use and health literacy in rural populations
- Tobacco cessation in hardened or hard core smokers
