Alicia Gill Rossiter

Dr. Alicia Gill Rossiter is an associate professor and the chief officer of Military and Veteran Affairs at the University of South Florida College of Nursing. Prior to transitioning into her current role, she served as the director of the Veteran to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program. The VBSN program is a program for military medics and corpsmen that builds upon their military healthcare education, training, and experience, and provides a more efficient pathway and education ladder...See more

Dr. Alicia Gill Rossiter is an associate professor and the chief officer of Military and Veteran Affairs at the University of South Florida College of Nursing. Prior to transitioning into her current role, she served as the director of the Veteran to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program. The VBSN program is a program for military medics and corpsmen that builds upon their military healthcare education, training, and experience, and provides a more efficient pathway and education ladder from veteran, to student, to baccalaureate prepared nursing professional. She graduated with her bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Alabama and her master of science and doctor of nursing practice from the University of South Florida. She is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner. Dr. Rossiter served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps on active duty for four years, which included two deployments: a humanitarian mission to Honduras, Central America and a combat deployment to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. She branch-transferred into the U.S. Air Force Reserve Nurse Corps in 1995 and served as an Individual Mobilization Augmentee until she retired in June 2015. In her last assignment, she served as adjunct faculty at the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at the University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, the nation's only federal/military health science university. Her military experience has been the impetus behind her research and scholarly work, which includes women veterans and military sexual trauma, the effects of parental military service on military-connected children, and transitioning needs of medics and corpsmen into the professional role of nursing. She was instrumental in the development of a first-of-its-kind College of Nursing online "Introduction to Military and Veteran Health" course. Dr. Rossiter completed her doctor of nursing practice in May 2015. Her groundbreaking work with Accelerated Resolution Therapy for Military Sexual Trauma related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 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. During her doctoral program at USF, she was selected as a Bob Woodruff Jonas Veteran Healthcare Scholar and an American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholar 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 where she currently serves as the chair for the Military/Veteran Health Expert Panel. See less