Dr. Alicia Gill Rossiter, DNP

Dr. Alicia Gill Rossiter comes from a multigenerational military family and is a retired combat Veteran who served in the United States Army Nurse Corps on active duty for four years which included two deployments—a combat deployment to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and a humanitarian mission to Honduras, Central America. She transferred into the United States Air Force (USAF) Reserve in 1995 and served as an Individual Mobilization Augmentee until she retired in June 2015. In her last assignment she served as adjunct faculty and the Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) to the USAF Chief Nurse at the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland—the Nation’s only federal/military health science university. Her awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medals with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and Unit Citation Military Ribbon with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters.

Her military experience has the been the impetus behind her research and scholarly work which includes women Veterans with PTSD secondary to MST, transitioning needs of medics and corpsmen into the professional role of nursing, educating providers to care for Servicemembers, Veterans, and military families, and the impact of parental military service on military-connected children. She was instrumental in the development of a first of its kind online “Introduction to Military and Veteran Health” course and was integral in the creation of the University of South Florida V-CARE Veteran to BSN Pathway where she served as Project Manager and later, Primary Investigator on the HRSA VBSN grant. Dr. Rossiter completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice in May 2015. Her groundbreaking work with Accelerated Resolution Therapy for Military Sexual Trauma related PTSD provided support to the body of evidence that led to integration of this innovative, highly effective treatment into Department of Defense PTSD treatment protocols and inclusion as trauma-based therapy for PTSD in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence Based Programs and Practices.

Dr. Rossiter was an Army ROTC scholarship recipient and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama. She received her Master of Science in Nursing and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of South Florida. During her doctoral program, she was selected as a Bob Woodruff Jonas Veteran Healthcare Scholar. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholars with the Military and Veteran Health Expert Panel. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2014 and in the American Academy of Nursing in 2018 and served as the Co-Chair and Chair of the AAN Military/Veteran Health Expert Panel from 2018-2022. She has served as Primary Investigator, Co-Investigator, and/or Project Manager on multiple grants totally $3,400,000.

She has authored over 30 peer reviewed veteran and policy related publications and book chapters and has presented at numerous state, regional, national, and international conferences on Military and Veteran health related topics. She recently co-authored her first book, Caring for Veterans and their Families: A Guide for Nurses and other Healthcare Professionals. Dr. Rossiter serves on numerous state, national, and international boards and committees focused on Veteran healthcare policy, research, and education and was appointed by the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to serve on the National Research Advisory Committee for VA Medical and Prosthetics Research Program, which directly impacts the care Veterans receive in the VA and in the community setting.