OUR PEOPLE
Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
490 Illinois Street, #73J
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
UCSF,San Francisco, Fellowship - Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health
Columbia University,New York City, NY, B.A. - 05/2002 Environmental Biology
Boston College,Chestnut Hall, MA, RN/MSN - 05/2007 Family Nurse Practitioner
UCSF,San Francisco, CA, PhD - 04/2018 Gerontological and Palliative Care Nursing
San Francisco VA Health Care Center,San Francisco, Fellowship - 06/2019 Quality Improvement
Awards and Honors
Tuition Remission Award, Boston College, 2005
John A. Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence/Jeanie Kaiser Jones Scholarship, UCSF, 2013-2014
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Recipient, National Institute for Nursing Research, 2014-2017
UCSF School of Nursing Distinguished Dissertation Award, UCSF, 2018
Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, UCSF Global Brain Health Institute, 2019-2020
Research Education Component Scholar, UCSF Claude D. Pepper Center, 2019-2020
Kornfield Scholar, National Palliative Care Research Center, 2019-2021
Overview
I am PhD-trained nurse practitioner and health services researcher with a research focus on understanding the geriatric palliative care needs and experiences of older adults with dementia across care settings. My research questions are driven by my professional experiences as a clinician working with seriously-ill older adults in acute care, hospice, and outpatient clinics, where I have witnessed firsthand how gaps in current care models negatively impact patients and families.
My vision is to help older adults, particularly those with dementia, to live and die as comfortably and peacefully as possible. To that end, my research has focused on three main areas: 1) End-of-life health service use and quality of care in older adults with dementia; 2) Geriatric palliative care needs in vulnerable older adults across settings; 3) Potentially burdensome interventions and transitions in vulnerable older adults. I also have a methodological interest in using existing datasets to answers questions in these domains.
My vision is to help older adults, particularly those with dementia, to live and die as comfortably and peacefully as possible. To that end, my research has focused on three main areas: 1) End-of-life health service use and quality of care in older adults with dementia; 2) Geriatric palliative care needs in vulnerable older adults across settings; 3) Potentially burdensome interventions and transitions in vulnerable older adults. I also have a methodological interest in using existing datasets to answers questions in these domains.