Kristin Rising, MD, MSHP
Executive Director
Dr. Rising is the Chief Medical Officer of the Jefferson IMPACT Institute and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University. The IMproving Patient And Community ouTcomes (IMPACT) Institute is a health system-based, cross-pillar collaboration designed to catalyze efforts that advance care excellence. Her work over the past few years has focused on improving screening and closed loop referral processes to address health related social needs, creating pathways to address population health needs with the emergency department setting (e.g., cancer screenings, HIV/hepatitis screening), addressing patient uncertainty during acute care visits, and developing more patient-centered outcome measures. She has led grants from numerous foundations, PCORI, AHRQ, and the NIH. Her current research portfolio focuses primarily on addressing patient uncertainty related to seeking care and developing novel approaches to reduce the impact of social determinants of health including food and digital literacy on individuals’ health. She has been on multiple national expert panels, including being an ongoing member of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s expert panel for Quality Measurement, and is on the editorial board for Annals of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine.
Kristin.Rising@jefferson.edu
215-503-5507
