Staff Members



Carrie Batchelder, FNP-C

Carrie is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Carrie received her B.S. in Nursing from Old Dominion University and earned her Masters of Nursing from Old Dominion University. She practiced for four years as a Registered Nurse in a cardiac intensive care & intermediate care unit before transitioning to a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2020. She joined the Allergy & Asthma Center in 2021.

Carrie is a member of Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her daughter, husband and local family.

Christina Barnett, FNP-C

Christina earned her Associates of Nursing at Owens Community College in Ohio in 2005. She continued to earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated in 2014. While raising 3 children with her husband who is in the military, and working she went back to school through the University of Colorado Colorado Springs to reach her ultimate goal of becoming a Nurse Practitioner. Christina is board certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

It has been a life's passion to help those in her community by improving health, wellness and the quality of life by providing patient centered care. Her focus is on prevention as well as management of illness through a holistic approach that is tailored to each individual. She has been a Registered nurse since 2005 and has worked at the bedside until 2020 when she started at the Allergy and Asthma Center as a Nurse Practitioner.

She started her career on a medical surgical floor and progressed to the Vascular ICU at Norfolk General where she worked for over 5 years. In 2014, she moved to Germany with her family where she was a school Nurse at the High School on base. She moved back to Virginia Beach in 2017 and worked at the Cardiac Care Unit at Virginia Beach General until she started her work here at the Allergy and Asthma Center.

As much as Christina enjoys her work, she loves spending time with her family. She loves to spend time outdoors and camping, especially in her families RV. her families favorite place to camp is Lake Gaston. There is nothing like waking up to the view of the sun over the water with trees above your head and the earth beneath your feet.