Suzanne August-Schwartz has been practicing as an FNP since 1986. She has been teaching in the FNP program at Samuel Merritt University (SMU) in Oakland, Calif., since 2001, and has been director of the FNP program at SMU since 2006. Suzanne received her BSN straight after high school in 1982 from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received her MSN and family nurse practitioner certificate in 1986 from UCSF, and her DNP from Rush University in Chicago in 2008.