Assistant Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Kirsten Dickins leads the Community Health and Trauma (CHaT) Lab. Dickins focuses her research on model of care innovation that centers trauma treatment with and for women experiencing homelessness and justice-impacted women. She utilizes varied analytic approaches to her work in interventional work, prioritizing the voices and perspectives of community members. Currently, she is implementing an adapted trauma treatment model to reduce traumatic stress and co-occurring symptoms, centering women with lived expertise in intervention delivery processes. Dr. Dickins has received funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Emergent Innovation award, the Charles and Margaret Roberts fund, the Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) Chicago KL2 award, and a Chicago Chronic Condition Equity Network (C3EN) pilot grant. She is a member of the City of Chicago Department of Housing 5-Year Housing Plan Steering Committee. Dickins was also named a STAT Wunderkind, recognizing early career researchers “blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine”. She has published her research in peer-reviewed outlets including JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Network Open, Academic Medicine, Journal of Women’s Health, and Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. She is the co-author of a textbook, Literature Review and Synthesis: A Guide for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals, published by Springer in 2022.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
Saturday, September 21, 2024
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT