Alyssa Hancock Named Chief Advanced Practice Clinician for Primary Care

Alyssa Hancock MSN, APRN, FNP-C, has been appointed as chief advanced practice clinician for primary care.

In this role, Hancock is responsible for providing leadership and support to advanced practice clinicians in Core Primary Care, Advanced Primary Care and Complex Primary Care and Community Medicine.

She began her career at ChristianaCare in 2009 as a student nurse extern on the Wilmington campus. Hancock became a highly skilled step-down nurse at Wilmington Hospital before transitioning to full-time primary care at the Family Medicine Center at Foulk Road in 2016.

She took an interest in leadership and has progressively taken on more complex roles throughout the health system. She served a two-year term as chair of the APRN Council from 2018 to 2020 and continues to be involved in the APC Council and a member of the staff credentialing committee. She was promoted to lead APC for Primary Care at Wilmington Health Center in 2020 and became lead APC for Primary Care in 2021.

Hancock graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She was awarded her master’s degree from the University of Delaware as a family nurse practitioner in 2016.

She reports to Erin Kavanaugh, M.D., FAAFP, chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine and physician executive of Complex and Community Care, and Priya Dixit-Patel, M.D., physician executive for Core and Advanced Primary Care.