Meet Our Providers

From 2013 to 2023, she worked at The Christ Hospital as a nurse practitioner specializing in Hematology/Oncology. She then left to pursue more time with family and work on her functional medicine and integrative cancer care certification. She still works as an NP in the allopathic field, caring for cancer patients in the rural community setting.

Part of what drives Erin is her own personal struggle with traditional allopathic medicine and the lack of ability to get to the “root cause.”  With the help of functional medicine and an integrative approach, the cause of her thyroid issues that went undiagnosed for nearly a decade-- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis worsened by a gluten sensitivity—was only discovered when working with a Naturopathic Doctor.  Getting to the root cause has helped her continue on the path to restoring health and wellness. This journey has highly motivated her to continuously research and seek root causes and address these roots with holistic therapies whenever possible- to combat disease not only for herself but also for her patients as well.

Erin was born and raised on the east side of Cincinnati and graduated from Purcell Marian High School. She made the “relocation” to the west side after marrying her soulmate, an Elder graduate and fellow west-sider, and has now resided there for 16 years along with their three children, a golden retriever, and 2 cats. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, jogging, reading, cooking, trying new healthy recipes, and spending quality time with friends and family.

Erin Cunningham, Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), or Erin as her patients call her, has had a lifelong passion for helping others, more specifically in the field of oncology. Her professional career began in 2002 after graduating from Xavier University with her bachelor’s degree in nursing. She worked in Aspen, Colorado, for a short time as a new registered nurse (RN), working with pediatrics and adults with orthopedic injuries and other high-altitude-related illnesses in both the medical and surgical and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings. She then moved back to Cincinnati and began working at The Christ Hospital in 2003. There, she gained experience in several fields, including the care of medical and surgical patients, critically ill patients in the medical ICU and post-anesthesia recovery unit.

She decided to pursue an advanced practice degree in 2010, all while working as an RN and having her third child in 2011! She graduated with honors from Northern Kentucky University in 2013 with an acute care nurse practitioner degree. She fell in love with the field of oncology, the patients, and the relationships that were formed with her patients as they walked through some of the most difficult valleys of their lives. Erin felt a calling to help guide them to health and healing in both the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual sense.