06/11/2026
Dr. Megan Dillon-Spruill is a member of our newest class of PhD students. She has been in eastern North Carolina for more than 25 years and graduated from NC State with a degree in sociology, but soon realized nursing was her passion. She returned to school at ECU in the Alternate Entry Program, completing her Master of Science in Nursing in 2008. Since that time, she has been practicing as an Adult Nurse Practitioner with East Carolina Pain Consultants, a division of East Carolina Anesthesia Associates in Greenville.
In 2020, Dillon-Spruill graduated once again from ECU with her Doctor of Nursing Practice, followed by a Post Master’s certificate in Nursing Education in 2024. Currently, she works at ECU’s College of Nursing, serving as the Post Master’s DNP Concentration Director in the Advance Nursing Practice Education Department. Over the years, her research interests have included chronic pain, pain management and harm reduction including naloxone distribution.
After working with DNP students and their projects, the importance of PhD and DNP collaboration is clear and seeks to be able to contribute to the research behind evidence-based practice. Her interests have evolved into DNP and PhD collaborations, implementation science, and evidence-based practice and she has returned to pursue her PhD.
Dillon-Spruill says she is excited to be a part of the PhD program.
