Katie Atkin DNP, WHNP-BC, ANP-BC is an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Nursing on the Educator tract and teaches in the Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP & WHNP Programs. Katie is board certified as both an Adult Nurse Practitioner and a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and has practiced as a Registered Nurse in inpatient obstetrics and as a Nurse Practitioner in outpatient obstetrics and gynecology.
Dr. Atkin has practiced at Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth Ob/GYN and Midwifery in the outpatient setting providing full-scope care to patients across the lifespan since 2010, where she has precepted many WHNP, FNP and midwifery students. Her areas of clinical interest include adolescent reproductive health, complex contraceptive management, abnormal pap smear management, and caring for patients through the menopausal transition. Katie also serves as the co-director of the OB Patient Safety Program at BID Plymouth by utilizing interdisciplinary in situ simulations to improve patient safety at the Birth Place of Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth hospital.
Prior to her appointment at Georgetown, Dr. Atkin was full time faculty at the MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP) in Boston, MA where she was an Assistant Professor and the coordinator of the Women’s Health/Gender-related and Dual Adult-Gerontology/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner specialties. She served on and was chair of the Admissions committee for the School of Nursing and served on the Steering Committee of the MGHIHP Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health. Dr. Atkin is interested in exploring the impact that climate change has on the health and well being of pregnant people and how it is expanding the existing gap in disparate maternal and infant health outcomes across racial groups in the United States. She is passionate about educating future and current clinicians on ways to reduce health inequities in pregnancy by providing education on the adverse outcomes that occur with exposure to extreme heat and air pollution in pregnancy as well as strategies to mitigate risk.