Cornelia Wakeman, NP is a Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Professor of Pulmonology, Allergy, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine at Boston Medical Center & Avedisian School of Medicine.

She is a member of the Pulmonary Sleep Medicine team and provides care to patients with sleep disordered breathing, insomnia and other sleep disorders. She is a trained Tobacco Treatment specialist for the Tobacco Treatment Center at BMC, counseling patients towards their goal of stopping tobacco use.

In 2000 she completed a CBT Certificate Program and continues to practice evidence-based Cognitive and Behavioral Interventions to help her patients change patterns of thinking and behavior.

Her interests include working with patient populations who experience substance use and tobacco use disorders. Her work has focused on developing tailored interventions to reach socioeconomic disadvantage populations and reduce health care disparities.

She received an undergraduate degree in Biology at William Smith College and a Bachelor's and Master's Nursing degrees from Regis College. She has worked in various clinical settings in the Greater Boston Area.