Kristen Abbott-anderson PhD, RN, CNE

Kristen Abbott-Anderson, Ph.D., RN, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Minnesota State University, Mankato (USA), and the newly appointed Director of the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute. She is also currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Family Nursing Association.

Dr. Abbott-Anderson’s passion is for building relationships, professionally, and with clients experiencing chronic health conditions and at the end of life. Dr. Abbott-Anderson has an extensive clinical practice and research experience in Alzheimer’s disease and associated dementias and women’s health across the lifespan. Her current research focuses on enhancing the quality of life for people living with dementia (PWD) through facilitating meaning-making programs designed to enhance connectedness between the PWD and their care partner (CP). Dr. Abbott-Anderson holds a certification as a nurse educator and is an End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) educator in core and geriatric curricula.