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AAHPM Abstract Award Winner
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AAHPM Abstract Award Winner
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HPNA Abstract Award Winner

Krista L. Harrison, PhD

Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco

Krista Harrison, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research aims to mitigate suffering associated with aging, dying, and grieving by improving policies and models of hospice and home-based care for people with dementia and care partners. For example, she uses quantitative data to examine population-level needs and generates qualitative and mixed-methods data to inform the development of policy recommendations or gerineuropalliative interventions for community-dwelling people with dementia and care partners. Dr. Harrison completed her PhD in health policy and bioethics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; postdoctoral training in aging research and implementation science at UCSF, and an Atlantic Fellowship for Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute. Before joining UCSF, Dr. Harrison was Director of Research and Education at a large nonprofit community-based hospice and palliative care organization. Dr. Harrison currently serves as co-lead of the Vulnerable Aging Research Core of the Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Center at UCSF, on the Public Policy Committee of the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care, and on the Guideline Expert Panel for the 5th Edition of the National Consensus Project (NCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. She is currently recruiting bereaved caregivers of people with dementia and hospice professionals for her R01 study on improving end-of-life care for people with dementia and their caregivers - learn more at https://heard.ucsf.edu/. More information about Dr. Harrison can be found at her lab website https://geriatrics.ucsf.edu/harrison-network and in her UCSF profile: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/krista.harrison.

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