Assistant Professor
Berry College
M’Lyn Spinks is an experienced nurse in the areas of adult primary care, pediatric and neonatal ICU, and care of technology-dependent children and their families. Throughout her 32 years of clinical nursing, Dr. Spinks traveled both locally in the southern US and globally in the countries of Peru, Ecuador, Mali, and South Africa, to provide basic healthcare services to people in need of primary care. Dr. Spinks currently works as an assistant professor at Kennesaw State University specializing in promoting accessible education through application of the concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). Her service to simulation education has been as a charter member of the INACSL IncluDE committee, INACSL Research committee member, and as an INACSL poster and abstract reviewer. Dr. Spinks has served on both community and nursing professional boards and has completed research projects as both the PI and as a member of collaborative multi-disciplinary teams. Her research publications emphasize the higher education student experience and DEIA in healthcare simulation education.