We are excited to announce a new editor has agreed to join our amazing team: Elke Zschaebitz, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FNAP (she/her).
Dr. Zschaebit is a certified family nurse practitioner and Associate Professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing. Her roles have included civilian service in U.S. military clinics in the US and overseas in Germany with recognitions from the 94th Engineer Combat Battalion, the American Red Cross, and a Military Child Education Coalition award for organizing one of the best national Student2Student mentorship and orientation programs.
Her previous scholarship also included research, genotyping cervical HPV in Tanzania among the Maasai women, and examining birth control practices. She is a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice and a member of the Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE) consortium: a multi-national interdisciplinary multi-institutional consortium dedicated to IPE within the online spaces. She has been awarded the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioner Education Award (2020), Georgetown University’s Provost Innovation in Teaching Award (2023) as well as the Marilyn Edmunds Writing Award (2023) by the Journal for Nurse Practitioners.
Her educational and research praxis incorporates diversity, equity, using digital storytelling of marginalized people to center the challenges around health systems. framed in Paulo Freire’s inclusion of person-centered narratives.