Kina L. Jackson, MA, MSN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, CCM of Salisbury has been selected as a fellow for the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program. The Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program, a one year professional development experience, is a partnership between Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University School of Nursing and Johnson & Johnson. The program was created in 2013 to provide leadership development for advanced practice nurses.  Selected fellows start the program in April 2019 and will participate in three leadership retreats throughout the program year as well as monthly distance-based learning activities and a transformative health leadership project. The program will provide each fellow with the leadership and management skills required to effectively address the needs of their communities – especially those of vulnerable populations – and to become change agents within their practice settings and the evolving healthcare environment.

Kina is a Salisbury native and is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Wanda Jackson. She currently practices as an adult gerontology nurse practitioner at the Salisbury VA Medical Center in the Department of Geriatrics & Extended Care.