Laura Conahan

Laura Conahan has served as nursing faculty at CSULB since 2014. She started teaching in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program as a clinical instructor, working her way up to Assistant Professor and Family Nurse Practitioner Program Coordinator. Throughout her career, Dr. Conahan has worked in a variety of practice settings including primary care, urgent care, and aesthetic medicine. When she is not teaching at CSULB, Dr. Conahan continues to practice clinically as the lead Family Nurse Practitioner and Director of Nursing for a busy family practice and aesthetic medicine facility.

Dr. Conahan has a dual-focused research agenda. Her interest in the clinical setting is centered around health promotion and disease prevention strategies in primary care, management of dermatology conditions that impact a patient’s quality of life such as acne, scarring, and pigmentation disorders, and the development of patient education materials. Her research in the academic setting is focused on recruiting and retaining quality preceptorships for advanced practice nurses and evaluating utilization of student health services in college student populations. Dr. Conahan is an active member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, California Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties.