Associate Professor
Ellmer School of Nursing

Kelli Garber

757-354-4379

HEALTH SCIENCES BLDG
VIRGINIA BEACH, 23453

Dr. Garber is an Associate Professor and Director of the DNP Advanced Practice Program at the Ellmer School of Nursing at ¹ÏÉñÍø. She is a Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years of experience including private practice, school-based health, and virtual care. Internationally recognized, Dr. Garber is a published author and an accomplished presenter on telehealth best practices, APRN telehealth practice, telehealth policy, telehealth education, and school-based telehealth. Previously, she was a seminal member of the Medical University of South Carolina School-based telehealth program where she contributed to the development and expansion of the statewide program in SC bringing healthcare to rural and underserved children.
Dr. Garber serves on several state and national boards and is a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP), a designation less than one percent of nurse practitioners hold. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), considered to be the highest honor in nursing globally. She received her BSN at Johns Hopkins University, her MSN at the University of Maryland, and her DNP from ¹ÏÉñÍø.

Expertise

Telehealth
Program development, best practices for clinical care, telehealth policy
Health/Health Care
Pediatrics, Nurse Practitioners, APRN Practice
Health Policy

Articles

Hudgins, A., Garber, K. M. and Gustin, T. (2024). Synchronous Telehealth Fatigue Among Healthcare Providers. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners.
Altares Sarik, D., Matsuda, Y., Garber, K. M., Hernandez, M. and Abrahante Turrell, E. (2023). Perspectives on telehealth use with the neonatal population: Policy, practice, and implementation considerations. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America.
Garber, K. M., Chike-Harris, K., Vetter, M., Heidesch, T., Arends, R., Teall, A. and Rutledge, C. M. (2023). Telehealth policy and the advanced practice nurse. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 19 (7).
Flowers, E., Garber, K. M. and Temples, H. (2023). Identifying congenital heart block in primary care. Journal of Pediatric Healthcare.
Garber, K. M., Gustin, T. and Rutledge, C. M. (2023). Put PEP into telehealth: An etiquette framework for successful encounters.. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 28 (2).
Garber, K. M. and Gustin, T. (2022). Telehealth education: Impact on provider experience and adoption. Nurse Educator 47 (2) , pp. 75-80.
Chike-Harris, K., Garber, K. M., Brooks, P. and Williams, A. (2021). The integration of telehealth policy education into an existing APRN policy course. Journal of Nursing Education 60 (1) , pp. 57.
Chike-Harris, K., Garber, K. M. and Derouin, A. (2021). Telehealth educational resources for graduate nurse faculty. Nurse Educator 46 (5) , pp. 295-299.
Garber, K. M., Wells, E., Hale, K. and King, K. (2021). Connecting kids to care: Establishing a school-based telehealth program. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 17 (3) , pp. 273-278.
Garber, K. M., DuBose-Morris, R. and Cristaldi, K. (2020). Interprofessional collaboration: Saving smiles through school-based telehealth. Southeast Case Research Journal 17 (1) , pp. 95-100.
Sisk, B., Alexander, J., Bodnar, C., Curfma, A., Garber, K. M., McSwain, S. and Perrin, J. (2020). Pediatrician attitudes toward and experiences with telehealth use: Results from a national survey. Academic Pediatrics 20 (5) , pp. 628-635.
Kistler, J., Cristaldi, K., Queenan, C., Garber, K. M., Wells, E. and McElligott, J. (2019). Caregiver Perceptions of Telehealth School-based Health Centers. Health Behavior and Policy Review 6 (4) , pp. 344-352.
Garber, K. M. and Chike-Harris, K. (2019). Nurse practitioners and virtual care: A 50 state review of APRN telehealth law & policy. Telehealth and Medicine Today 4.
Cormack, C., Garber, K. M., Cristaldi, K., Edlund, B., Dodds, C. and McElligott, L. (2016). Implementing school-based telehealth for children with medical complexity. Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 9 (3) , pp. 237-240.
Garber, K. M. (1996). Enuresis: An update on diagnosis and management. The Journal of Pediatric Healthcare 10 (5) , pp. 202-208.

Book Chapters

Garber, K. M. and Dubose-Morris, R. (2024). Chapter 6: Managing chronic conditions via telehealth. Primary Care of Children with Chronic Conditions Elsevier.
Chike-Harris, K., Garber, K. M., Dwivedi, M. and Nichols, M. (2023). Chapter 7: The use of technology in health promotion Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for Advanced Practice: Integrating Evidence-Based Lifestyle Concepts (pp. 175-192) Jones and Bartlett Learning.
DuBose-Morris, R., Chike-Harris, K., Garber, K. M., Shimek, A. and Stroud, K. (2022). Telehealth: Reaching Out to Patients and Providers Nursing Informatics: A Health Informatics, Interprofessional and Global Perspective (pp. 321-337) Springer.
  • 2024: Fellow , American Academy of Nursing
  • 2024: Fellow, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
  • 2023: Cindy Rish Poole Distinguished Service Award, SC Association of School Nurses
  • 2022: Scientific Poster Award, Palmetto Care Connections 10th Annual Telehealth Summit of South Carolina
  • 2021: Patient-Centered Mental Health in Pediatric Primary Care Program Scholarship Award, REACH Institute
  • 2019: DNP Student Scholarship Award, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
  • 2019: Tylenol Future Care Scholarship Award, Johnson and Johnson
  • 2018: Award for Program Development, Medical University of South Carolina Center for Telehealth
  • 2017: Advocacy Scholar , National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
  • 1996: Graduate Program Award for Excellence in Nursing Care of Infants and Children, University of Maryland at Baltimore
  • 1993: Maryland State Nursing Scholarship Award,
  • 1988: Johns Hopkins Hospital Distinguished Scholar Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

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