Katie Atkin is a women’s health and adult nurse practitioner as well as an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Nursing teaching in the Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP & WHNP programs. With over two decades of experience in clinical practice and education, Katie has dedicated her career to improving health outcomes by providing evidence-based prenatal, sexual and reproductive health care to people across the lifespan.
Katie has practiced at Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) Plymouth Ob/GYN and Midwifery in the outpatient setting 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 hospital by utilizing interdisciplinary in situ simulations to improve patient safety.
Prior to her appointment at Georgetown University School of Nursing, Katie 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. Katie is interested in exploring the intersection of environmental health and its disproportionate impact on pregnancy and women’s health 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 reproductive, and prenatal care by providing education on the adverse outcomes that occur with exposure to climate related health hazards.
Katie is a graduate of Georgetown University (BSN), New York University (MS) and MGH Institute of Health Professions (DNP).