Ben Zumwalt, MSN, FNP-BC

He/Him/His

Adjunct Faculty, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, School of Nursing

Biography

After graduating from SMU's FNP program, I completed the nurse practitioner residency at Santa Rosa Community Health for 18 months. From 2021-2025 I worked as a core clinician in full scope family medicine. Since 2025, I have been the clinician lead at our school-based health center (teen clinic) in Santa Rosa. I've been in nursing education since 2020, including psychiatric nursing clinical, mentoring FNP clinical groups, precepting FNP students in clinic, and teaching advanced pathophysiology and pharmacology.

Clinical Specialty

  • community health
  • adolescent medicine
  • primary care psychiatry
  • metabolic health

Education

  • Samuel Merritt University - MSN, FNP program (2019)
  • UC Berkeley Molecular and Cell Biology (2009)

Certifications

  • ANCC FNP

Teaching Responsibilities

  • advanced pharmacology
  • advanced pathophysiology