Family Nurse Practitioner Joins Canandaigua Medical Group

Community News Release
Headshot of a smiling woman with curly brown hair, wearing a white vest against a gray background.
Katie Schaeffer-McCool, Family Nurse Practitioner, is pictured in a headshot.

Family Nurse Practitioner Katie Schaeffer McCool recently joined the Internal Medicine Department at the Farmington office of UR Medicine Thompson Health’s Canandaigua Medical Group.

Born and raised in Canandaigua, McCool is a resident of Shortsville who first joined Thompson in 2008 as a pharmacy technician. Most recently, she was an urgent care provider for the health system, where she has also worked as a registered nurse in the ICU and as an eRecord-credentialed trainer.

Certified by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, McCool obtained her bachelor’s in nursing from the St. John Fisher University Wegmans School of Nursing in Rochester and her master’s as a nurse practitioner – with a certificate in education – from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

Submitted by Anne Johnston.

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