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Amanda Floetke Elliott earned a B.S. in Nursing, with honors, from the University of Florida in 2001. After graduation, Amanda worked as a staff nurse in the operating room at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. Amanda was awarded a University of Florida Alumni Fellowship to begin her graduate studies in the BSN-PhD program at the University of Florida in the College of Nursing. In 2002, Amanda received her M.S.N and is an Adult Health Nurse Practitioner. In 2003, Amanda received a John A. Hartford Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Pre-doctoral Scholarship (2003-05) and a T32 Pre-doctoral Traineeship (2005-06) to complete her doctoral studies and received her Ph.D. in Nursing, with a minor in Gerontology in 2006.
Amanda’s dissertation study, “Assessing and Treating Chronic Pain in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia: A Single-Subject Approach,” evaluated the effect of an acetaminophen trial in reducing observable chronic pain behaviors and excess disabilities in older adults with dementia. During her graduate program, Amanda was named the Rising Star of Scholarship and Research (2005) and won the First Place Graduate Student Poster Award (2005) from the University of Florida College of Nursing. At graduation, Amanda received the Academic Excellence in Doctoral Coursework Award and the Lois Knowles Award for Excellence in Gerontological Nursing. In 2007, Amanda received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the College of Nursing.
In September 2007, Amanda joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology’s Clinical Research Unit as a Post-doctoral Fellow after completing a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama in the Center for Mental Health and Aging. She is married to Dr. Joshua Elliott, an Ophthalmology Resident at UAB, and they are expecting their first child.
