Deborah Elkins

Deborah Elkins is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at James Madison University. Her educational background includes a BA and BSN from Radford University, an MSN from Florida Atlantic University, an MBA from Virginia Tech, and a DNP from Chatham University.

With extensive clinical experience across diverse healthcare settings including medical-surgical adult home health, correctional health, neuro ICU, trauma ICU, migrant farmworker clinics, family practice, retail health clinics, and wound care, her research focuses on gerontology, healthy aging, and public policy interventions.