Brief Bio

Dr. Trotter teaches and is the course coordinator for the Sexual and Reproductive Health course for all NP students. She also supports students in the Directed Research course in the MSN program. 50% of her time is clinical practice as a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Family Nurse Practitioner in the Duke University Medical Center. She is the lead clinician and developer of the innovative breast cancer survivor clinic at Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center.

She received a BSN from George Mason University in 1982, and earned the MSN with a specialty in midwifery at the University of Kentucky in 1988. In 1998, she completed a Post-Master’s Certificate in the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty at the Duke University School of Nursing. She earned her DNP from Duke University School of Nursing in 2012. Before joining the faculty of the Duke University School of Nursing, she held faculty positions with physician resident education in the Department of Family Medicine within the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Medical School and was a full-time primary care provider. She initiated the CenteringPregnancy program at UNC Family Medicine and later assisted in development of the CenteringParenting model at the Centering Healthcare Institute.

Kathy Trotter is a strong clinician with interests in women’s health and families. Her current research focuses on application of group health care models to prenatal care, parenting, and chronic illnesses (particularly breast cancer survivors).

Academic Program Affiliations

Education

Professional Certifications

Research Interests

Clinical Interests

Kathy Trotter has been a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) in active practice for over 20 years, and has practiced as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) during the past 12 years. She stopped attending births in 2006, but her current practice as a CNM and FNP is in the Department of General Surgery and the Department of Oncology (Breast) at the Duke University Medical Center.

She has extensive experience with the Centering Healthcare group visit model, including CenteringPregnancy, CenteringParenting, and Centering Lifecycle, and serves as Consultant Faculty, national trainer and Site Approval Visitor for the Centering Healthcare Institute. She has implemented an innovative model of breast cancer survivorship care based on the Centering Healthcare model within a freestanding clinic in the Cancer Center of the Duke University Medical Center.

Awards and Honors

• 2012 Susan Baird Excellence in Clinical Writing Award, Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)

• 2011 Interviewed in CJONPlus Podcast Series, Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing

• 1995 Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina Award

• 1986 Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing Honor Society

Areas of Expertise

• Family Health
• Oncology
• Reproductive Health
• Women's Health

Representative Publications

• 2013 -- Pubmed # 23598561 Trotter, K. J. The promise of group medical visits. Nurse Pract. May, 2013; 38(5); 48-53

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 21444277 Trotter, K., Frazier, A., Hendricks, C. K., Scarsella, H. Innovation in survivor care: Group visits. (CJONPlus featured Journal Club article). Clin J Oncol Nurs. April, 2011; 15(2); E24-33

• 2011 -- Trotter, K. (interviewed by Hooker. M.) CJONPlus Podcast Series: “Innovation in Survivor Care: Group Visits”. URL: http://www.ons.org/Publications/CJON/Features/CJONPlus. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing CJONPlus Podcast Series. April, 2011;

• 2008 -- Pubmed # 18825863 Nusbaum, M. R., Frasier, P. Y., Rojas, F., Trotter, K., Tudor, G. Sexual orientation and sexual health care needs: a comparison of women beneficiaries in outpatient military health care settings. J Homosex. December 1, 2008; 54(3); 259-76

• 2007 -- Trotter, K. J. Group Prenatal Care: CenteringPregnancy. In Family Medicine Obstetrics (3rd ed.), edited by Ratcliffe, S. D., Baxley, E. G., Cline, M. K., and Adam. P. 2007; St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Elsevier.

• 2004 -- Trotter, K. J., Sterling, L., Strickland, C., Chetwynd, E. Big ideas to help your practice thrive: Put eight pregnant women in the same room. Family Practice Management. September, 2004; 8 27-34

Grant Funding (selected)

• Evaluation of CenteringPregnancy program at UNC Family Practice Center  
  UNC Department of Family Medicine
  05/2005-08/2005
  Role: Co-PI
  Project Goal: analyze the written evaluations of participants in the CenteringPregnancy program from 4/2003-06/30/2005 at the UNC Family Practice Center

• Better Beginnings  
  UNC Department of Family Medicine
  #03-FAM/MED 717
  02/2004-07/2006
  Role: PI
  Project Goal: To learn more about features of the care women receive during pregnancies that are most helpful to them during their pregnancy and following the delivery of their baby.

• CenteringPregnancy: A Pilot Program at the UNC Family Practice Center  
  March of Dimes
  02/2003-01/2005
  Role: PI
  Project Goal: To initiate the model of group prenatal care called CenteringPregnancy at an academic family practice clinic