She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing where she has been on faculty since 2003. She has worked in the area of contractures in long-term care, home-based primary care of older adults and Alzheimer's disease. Her current clinical research focuses on elderly persons with dementia who access acute care at the point of the emergency department. Clevenger is President of the Georgia chapter of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA), Team Lead for Student Training in the Atlanta Regional Geriatric Education Center and a member of the Education Core of the Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.