Bio
Adjunct Faculty, UMB Physician Assistant Program
Professor Niles received her Master’s of Science and completed the ethics pathway from Baylor College of Medicine’s PA program in 2016. She has practiced in critical care since graduation, and continues to engage in medical ethics by serving on the UMMC Ethical Advisory Committee. Currently, she works in the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. She is active in new-graduate APP critical care education, and educating PA students has always been one of her professional goals. She completed the PA Leadership and Learning Academy Fellowship through UMB in May 2024 while serving as a guest lecturer and instructor for the UMB PA program’s Emergency Medicine course and skills labs. Her educational interests include simulation in PA education, teaching skills labs, medical ethics, and clinical medicine.