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Director of School of Nursing

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Kimberly Carter, Ph.D., RN

Dr. Carter is the director of the Radford University School of Nursing in the Waldron College of Health and Human Services. In addition to her administrative responsibilities as director, she is a nurse educator, researcher, and research coordinator for HCA Montgomery Regional Hospital. She has clinical experience in hospital and public settings. She presently serves on numerous boards and has been active in policy issues advocating for the homeless and other underserved populations. She serves on the Editorial Review Board for Advances in Nursing Science, the Journal of Advanced Nursing, and Public Health Nursing.

Educational Information:

  • Ph.D., Nursing, University of Virginia
    • Dissertation title: Correlates of Health Behavior in Community-living Older Adults
  • Cognate in Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
  • MSN, Primary Nursing Care in Society, University of Virginia
  • BSN, Radford University

Specialty Areas:

  • Community Health
  • Health Behavior
  • Health Promotion

To contact Dr. Carter, call or write:

School of Nursing
Box 6964
Radford, VA 24142
Phone: 540-831-7700
Fax: 540-831-7716
Email: kcarter@radford.edu