Professional Overview

Dr. Brad Harrell is a Clinical Professor and Assistant Dean of Nursing at the Lambuth campus. He teaches nursing care for adult populations and in the graduate nurse educator concentration. Dr. Harrell's primary scholarship, in addition to professional practice, focuses on health disparities among sexual and gender minorities – especially LGBT+ individuals. He continues his work on abdominal compartment syndrome, for which he is one of three editors for the first international nursing textbook on the topic.

Dr. Harrell regularly presents to groups on topics in critical care nursing, adult health nursing, advanced nursing practice, LGBT health, and health policy. He served as District 1 and District 12 President in the Tennessee Nurses Association. He served three terms on the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Content Expert Panel for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Adult Gerontology-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialties. He serves internationally as a nurse researcher with the WSACS-the Abdominal Compartment Society. He serves as a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Group and was a member of the steering committee for developing this as an AACN Leadership Network. He currently serves as a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Program Evaluator and a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Peer Evaluator.

Dr. Harrell is an experienced acute care nurse practitioner who practices as part of the medical consult team at Western Mental Health Institute in Bolivar, TN.