Katie L George, AGACNP
Family Medicine
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Bio & Overview
Katie George, DNP, AG-ACNP, is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner within the UVA Department of Family Medicine.
She specializes in treating patients living with obesity. She has a high level of compassion for patients struggling with obesity and finds the work very rewarding.
She is a member of the Obesity Medicine Association where she completed the Fundamentals of Obesity Treatment training. She is currently working towards advanced certification in Obesity Medicine.
Prior to her current role, Katie was an NP in Acute Care Surgery at UVA Health for six years. She saw many patients who needed elective surgery but were considered high risk for complications due to their obesity. She became an expert at managing patients with percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tubes.
She also developed a protocol to reduce peri-operative opioid prescribing and advanced the use of telemedicine for peri-operative care. In 2018, she was nominated for Advanced Practice Provider of the Year.
Katie was born and raised outside of Buffalo, New York, and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. While a student, she completed an internship in the Emergency Department at UVA Health. This is where she began her nursing career.
She then worked for seven years in the Surgical-Trauma-Burn ICU at UVA Health, where she developed a passion for critical care, and obtained her CCRN certification. She has served as President of the Monticello Chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). She was also featured in the American Journal of Nursing for her strong patient advocacy.
Katie then completed the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) program at UVA, obtaining a Master of Nursing degree, followed by a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2016. Her doctoral work evaluated teamwork and knowledge retention among ICU nurses and resident physicians after implementation of a simulation training program. The findings were published in Dimensions of Critical Care.
Outside of work, Katie enjoys being outdoors with her twin boys, husband, and dog. She is also a life-long lover of horses and the Buffalo Bills.
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Infants (0-2)
Children (2-12)
Adolescents (12-21)
Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Additional Specialties
- Obesity Medicine
Highlights
Meet Katie George, DNP, AG-ACNP
I'm Katie George. I'm a doctorally-prepared nurse Practitioner, and I work for Obesity Medicine at UVA Health. My day-to-day work varies. I see patients in clinic. Those patients may be patients before bariatric surgery if we're trying to get weight down so they have a safer surgery. It might be after weight loss surgery, whether they are not losing weight on the standard trajectory and need extra help, or maybe a patient who's never had weight loss surgery and is looking for medical assistance in improving their health and reducing their weight. I love what I do now. It's incredibly rewarding and the most rewarding part about it is helping patients who have struggled with weight, many patients their whole lives. And most of those patients have been told over and over and over that this is their fault. And I really love being able to share with them the most evidence-based research that explains why weight loss is so hard and why it is recurrent. And that's not a flaw on their part as a human being, which is what our society tells them. So I really love getting to do that role, having the patient feel comfortable, having the patient trust me, and then using the best evidence-based decisions we have to formulate a treatment plan specific to that patient. Patients should choose UVA for their care because I choose it for my own family. And that's because we believe in what the team does here. We believe in the providers, and the nurses and the staff that support the amazing work that we do and it shows and patients know it. And I trust UVA for the care of myself and my family.
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