Dr. Heidi Fantasia

Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia is currently an assistant professor of nursing for the University of Massachusetts/Lowell.  She has served as adjunct clinical faculty at Boston College and is currently a visiting scholar at the school of nursing. She is also employed as a nurse practitioner for Health Quarters, a Title X family planning and STD clinic in northeastern Massachusetts. Her clinical work is directed toward a primarily adolescent and young adult population and focuses on sexual and reproductive health and safety, contraception management, and routine gynecologic care. Dr. Fantasia’s current research interests include adolescent sexual decision-making, adolescent sexual safety, sexual consent, and the experience of unwanted sex. Dr. Fantasia received her BSN at Salem State College, her MS at Boston College, and her PhD at Boston College.