Serena Robbins
MSN, RN, CNM, WHCNP-BC, 3rd year PhD student
Serena Robbins, MSN, RN, CNM, WHCNP-BC, 3rd year PhD student, is the deputy Women Veterans Program manager for the VA Northern California Health Care System, bringing more than 25 years of nursing experience in women’s healthcare and in sexual assault recovery, prevention, and response. She is a fourth-year doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she studies the effect of sexual assault during disasters on adult women. Robbins earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Southern California in 1999 and a Master of Science in Nursing from Frontier Nursing University in 2015, with a focus on nurse midwifery and women’s health care nurse practitioner. Her most recent publication is “Sexual Violence Against Adult Women Immediately Before, During, and After Natural Disasters: A Scoping Review,” in the Journal of Forensic Nursing. She is married and has two children. In her free time, Robbins likes to sing in her church choir and rescue animals. She currently has two rescue dogs, two rescue cats, and a rescue Russian tortoise.