Captain Kathleen Stilling Burkhart has been a Nurse Practitioner in the VA for over 25 years, currently working in Home Based Primary Care delivering patient centered primary care to homebound Veterans. In her tenure as president of the Uniformed Nurse Practitioner Association, she was instrumental in the merger to what is now AANPs Military Special Interest Group. She has served as AANP State Representative as well as held numerous leadership positions with the New Jersey State Nurses Association, and the VA. Captain Burkhart is the recipient of numerous clinical awards, as well as four individual military service medals.