Joy Albright is a Family Nurse Practitioner and brings over 19 years of vast nursing experience to our practice here at BackFit Health and Spine. Her primary experience as a nurse practitioner is in venous insufficiency, treating deep vein thrombosis (blood clots), and performing procedural and cosmetic sclerotherapy for spider veins. Joy also comes to our practice with experience in personal injuries that result from motor vehicle accidents, or on the job injuries. Most recently, Joy has obtained specialty training in cosmetic and dermal filers.

She began her career as an LPN in 2003 working on a Cardiac Unit. She next obtained an Associate Degree in nursing in 2011. A Bachelor of Science in Nursing from South university (Novi, Michigan) in 2016. She was then inspired to advance her degree and become a Family Nurse Practitioner while working as an RN fulfilling staffing shortages in many specialty clinics in the Detroit Metropolitan area. Joy noticed a delay, or lack of primary care access to patients. Therefore, inspiring her to pursue a Master of Science in Nursing from South University in 2019 graduating with Magna Cum Laude honors.

Joy’s focus is helping her patients get back to their optimal health, physically, and emotionally after injury or illness, and prompt access to the many services offered here at BackFit Health and Spine!

Joy relocated to the East Valley in 2018 from the Detroit metropolitan region. She enjoys the year-round warmth being in the “valley of the sun!” She enjoys weekend camping trips with her family, hiking, biking, acrylic painting, and household projects.