Katherine Winter

Katherine Winter is a Lecturer in the Department of Nursing at Shenandoah University, with over 15 years of experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Front Royal Family Practice. Her work focuses on geriatric care, diabetes and obesity clinic development, and community primary care research. She also supervises nurse practitioner students and contributes to qualitative and mixed-method studies on dementia care in nursing homes.

Educational Background:

• B.S. in Biology and Education, University of Mary Washington (2002, summa cum laude)
• B.S.N. and M.S.N., The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
• PhD in Nursing candidate at The Catholic University of America

Research Interests center on medication management for dementia symptoms, policy implications of CMS quality measures, and health disparities in nursing home care. Her recent work examines antiepileptic drug trends and quality-measure score disparities post-pandemic.

Scientific Contributions

• Recipient of the NAPCRG Pearls Award (2016) for impactful research on clinical practice
• Co-investigator on NIA R01 grant (2022-2027) and multiple Alzheimer's-related grants (2017-2022)