Antonette Kanu has exceptional training experience at Kent State in Ohio for her graduate degrees as well as having the opportunity to work at Cleveland Clinics, Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore and Holy Cross Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with Georgetown University.
Antonette was born in Sierra Leone, in West Africa. She moved the US at the age of 13 and attended Orange Park High School in Orange Park Florida. While in high school, she became an active member of Amnesty International, advocating for people throughout the world who were struggling against injustice.
After graduating high school, she enrolled at Cambridge Medical Institute, earning her first degree as an Associate of Science in Nursing, in May 2012. While at Cambridge Medical, she worked as a dietary aid at a long-term care facility, where she came to love the daily interactions with her patients.
Antonette moved to Maryland and worked as a registered nurse (RN) at a long-term care facility. She became an expert in wound care nursing and eventually worked fulltime as a wound care nurse. In addition, Antonette had an opportunity to work with inmates at the Baltimore Central Booking Jail in Baltimore Maryland, providing medical care to inmates, where she further her compassion for helping those in need.
In 2016, Antonette began working as an Oncology Nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, providing nursing care to cancer patients. A few years after working at Mercy, she became increasingly inspired to provide more advanced care.
Antonette moved to Ohio to attend Kent State University and graduated with her BSN two years later and two years after her BSN, she complete Kent State’s rigorous Master of Science in Nursing specializing as Family Nurse Practitioner.
While earning her advanced nursing degrees, she worked at Cleveland Clinic in the step-down cardiac telemetry unit.
In 2020, she moved back to Maryland, working at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, a teaching hospital affiliated with George Washington University, working with medical, surgical and oncology patients and then Washington Vascular Specialists.
Antonette focuses on family medicine, urgent care, and managing chronic diseases. She has 12 years of nursing experience in long-term care, wound care, oncology, and telemetry and 2 years of Nurse Practitioner in Internal Medicine.
Antonette Kanu holds her national board certification with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Family Nurse Practitioner as well as the following certifications: Certified Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Basic Life Support certification, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification, CPR certification, AED certification, AHA certification, DEA certification.
