Emily Stevens, PhD, MSN, RN, FNP-BC

Co-chair, Member engagement committee; Advisory council & founding Member

Dr. Stevens is a faculty instructor in the nurse practitioner program at James Madison University with over a decade of clinical practice experience in primary care. Currently her clinical practice is focused on obesity medicine and she works to increasing access to health care for underserved populations as a regular NP volunteer at the Blue Ridge Free Clinic.

She received her PhD at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2025 and previously earned her MSN from the University of Virginia.  Her research interest surrounds women in midlife with treatment resistant obesity.  Emily is a board certified family nurse practitioner and has also earned a certificate of advanced education from the Obesity Medicine Association.