Meet the faculty:
Pamela Keller, DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC
Dr. Pamela Keller started her nursing career as a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in 1990. She moved to Central Pennsylvania in 1992, where she continued her PICU career at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She then transitioned into community medicine, working in a multidisciplinary medical office with internal medicine and multiple surgical subspecialty physicians. She then became the nursing manager for a community urology group for 5 years before returning to Hershey Medical Center as the care coordinator for the Women’s Health Department. After returning to the academic medical center, she earned her Family Nurse Practitioner degree from Pennsylvania State University. She spent two years working as a nurse practitioner in the Family Medical Group at Penn State Hershey Medical Center from 2012 to 2014.
In 2014, Dr. Keller started working for the Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery group at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She specializes in the care of Endometriosis patients. She has become a subjective expert on this chronic pelvic pain condition and has given several podium presentations on the subject of Endometriosis at the local, state, and national level.
In 2021, she transitioned with most of her group to work at the UPMC Central PA Women's Minimally Invasive GYN surgery group, where she continues to provide care to complex GYN surgical patients. Dr. Keller is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Eta Chapter at the University of Pittsburgh, and is the Vice President of the Lambda Kappa Chapter at Messiah University, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Pennsylvania Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners of Central Pennsylvania, and the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health.
Dr. Keller and her husband, Jerry Ozog (Public Safety Specialist at the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors), live in Mechanicsburg. She has two children, one stepson, and three granddaughters. She enjoys watching football, being physically active outdoors, riding her bike, and reading Freida McFadden novels.
- BSN (University of Pittsburgh)
- MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner (Pennsylvania State University)
- DNP, Nursing Leadership (Messiah University)
- NURS 703 - Clinical Advanced Family Nurse Practice of Adults II
- NURS 709 - Clinical Advanced Family Nurse Practice for Women's Health
- Women’s Health
- Family Practice
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Endometriosis