Medical Services Coordinator, Child Maltreatment Medical Consultant
Child Advocacy Centers of North Carolina & Southmountain Children and Family Services & UNC Department of Pediatrics
Deb Flowers has been a nurse for 37.5 years, with the last 12 years working as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She worked in the UNC Emergency Department for 19 years, where she worked as a staff nurse, assistant manager, and co-coordinator of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program. Deb transferred to the UNC Department of Pediatrics – NC Child Medical Evaluation Program in December 2006 and performed program coordination and nurse consultant responsibilities for the Program for 12.5 years. She also was a medical consultant for the UNC Beacon Child Abuse Team. Deb retired from UNC after 31.5 years in June 2019. She continues to work in child maltreatment by performing medical evaluations for DSS and law enforcement at the Moore County and Harnett County Child Advocacy Centers. Deb also works part-time with the Child Advocacy Centers of North Carolina as the Medical Services Coordinator. She returned part-time to UNC last year and takes inpatient calls providing child abuse consultations. Deb continues to develop and deliver training for sexual assault nurse examiners and in child maltreatment