Heather Wheatley, NP was born in Augusta, Georgia and grew up in Wilkes County. She graduated from Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School in 2000 and completed her undergraduate program at the University of Georgia. She then transferred to the Medical College of Georgia and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in May 2004. Her nursing career began the summer of 2004 in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Piedmont Athens Regional. She started the Master of Science Program at Kennesaw State University the fall of 2007 and obtained her degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner in December 2008. Heather was hired to work for Dr. Cody Gunn in January 2009 and has been working with him since that time as his Nurse Practitioner.