Dr. Robertson holds an appointment as a Clinical Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University and is also the Clinical Executive at Wolters Kluwer, Health, Learning, Research and Practice.

She has held numerous roles as a nurse, advance practice nurse, nurse executive and vice president and chief learning officer for a large integrated health system leading workforce development for 20,000 employees.  She has served as the founding Senior Nurse Quality Scholar for the Veteran Administration’s Quality Scholar Fellowship at the Atlanta VA, one of the first sites to admit nurses into a fellowship. Dr. Robertson is known for her work in interprofessional education (IPE), and quality and safety.  She holds two editorial positions within the International Clinician Educators (ICE) blog, hosted by the Center of Innovation in Medical Education (cIMED) at the University of Ottawa, and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s inaugural journal called Intersections; both focusing on interprofessional education.

She holds appointments in key organizations: the National Board of Medical Examiners, American Interprofessional Health Collaborative, the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and the National Alliance for Quality Care (NAQC).  She is a Distinguished Scholar Fellow in the National Academy of Practice (NAP) and received the Interprofessional Group Recognition Award from the NAP in 2021 for pioneering IPE work at Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center. 

Her funded projects have focused on interprofessional education in the virtual and clinical environment and most recently, on primary care workforce development through a HRSA funded initiative designed to build and sustain a Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program with Federally Qualified Health Centers.  In her role at Wolters Kluwer, she serves as a subject matter expert and consultant both internal to the organization and external to current and prospective clients. 

As a teacher, I see my role as a facilitator of learning. I believe everyone has an innate inquiry and desire to learn given the right environment, direction, support and resources. As a faculty, I see my role as a partnership with the learner to co-produce the optimal learning experience.

As a translational researcher, I am keenly interested in how quality and safety competencies impact patient outcomes.