Nina Erlanger, DNP, FNP-C, APRN

nina.erlanger@yale.edu

About

Dr. Erlanger is a Family Nurse Practitioner with a special interests in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender, and Primary Care. She grew up in Manhattan and had a first career as a musician and song-writer after studying music Berklee College of Music in Boston. She has a bachelor’s in music composition from Brandeis University, where she had an additional concentration in Human Sexuality and Gender Studies. After college, an existential crisis of sorts led Nina to a different path where she could honor a calling to support people in the sexual health and primary care they needed. Inspired by her own midwife and an aunt that is an OB/GYN, she entered nursing school while continuing to play music. After completing her BSN at NYU, she was hired at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. There, Nina founded the Centralized Follow-Up Department and served in a variety of nursing roles until she returned to school at Quinnipiac University to complete her DNP as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Since graduating, Nina worked first as a primary care provider at ProHealth Physicians before returning to Planned Parenthood as clinician in 2020. Dr. Erlanger provides sexual and reproductive health care to patients of all genders. She also continues to provide primary care to patients, and is one of the clinicians at Planned Parenthood providing gender affirming hormone therapy.  She is adjunct faculty at Quinnipiac University where she teaches Reproductive Health Problems in Primary Care to FNP and AGNP students. Dr. Erlanger received YSN’s WHNP preceptor award in 2023, nominated by two of her former students in clinic. She lives in Madison, CT with her husband and their 2 cats. She enjoys playing music, gardening, cooking, and walking through nature and is thrilled to be a part of the YSN community.

Clinical Interests

• The integration of sexual health into the primary care setting and vice versa. 
• Mental health management within the reproductive health and primary care setting.
• Trauma informed care