Brandi Brinkerhoff is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner in Women’s Health Care. She obtained her Associates of Science in Nursing in 2010, her Bachelors of Science in Nursing in 2011, and her Masters of Science in Nursing in 2015, all from the University of Indianapolis. Brinkerhoff started her nursing career as a bedside nurse on a Pulmonary Medical-Surgical unit, before spending four years as a Labor and Delivery Nurse on the Obstetric Intensive Care Unit at Indiana University Health, University Hospital. Upon obtaining her master's degree, she transitioned into the advanced provider role with Maternal Fetal Medicine in 2015. Brinkerhoff has a DEA waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for up to 30 patients. She works both in the inpatient setting to help pregnant women with opioid use disorder initiate onto buprenorphine and the outpatient setting to monitor those women during their pregnancies.