Deborah Trautman, Ph.D., R.N.

Deborah E. Trautman, Ph.D., R.N., is the Interim Vice President of Patient Care Services for Howard County General Hospital, part of the Johns Hopkins Health System; Director of Nursing for Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital; and Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

Since 1980, Dr. Trautman has held clinical and administrative leadership positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins medical institutions. She received a B.S.N. from West Virginia Wesleyan College, an M.S.N. with emphasis on education and administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in health policy from the University of Maryland’s Department of Public Policy in 2004. Her dissertation research examined emergency department screening for intimate partner violence, and her research interests include women’s health, health care disparities, violence, and clinical service excellence.

She has authored and coauthored publications on intimate partner violence, pain management, clinical competency, change management, cardiopulmonary bypass, the use of music in the emergency department, and consolidating emergency services. As a member of the senior leadership at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, she represents the hospital on the Baltimore City Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team.

Dr. Trautman is a Magnet Appraiser Fellow for the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. She previously served on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Public Health Interest Group, the Baltimore City Mayor’s Task Force on Domestic Violence, and the Johns Hopkins University President’s Council on Urban Health Violence Prevention Workgroup. Her health policy interests include emergency patient care, emergency nursing practice, women’s health, health care disparities, access to health care, and improving health care delivery.