Kristin Rising MD, MSHP

Dr. Kristin Rising is a clinician scientist who serves as Founding Executive Director of the Jefferson Center for Connected Care and Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, with secondary appointments in the College of Population Health and the College of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University. She completed medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, emergency medicine residency training at Boston Medical Center, and received a Master of Science in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Rising’s mission is to transform the patient voice into evidence-based interventions that are designed to address unmet needs that impact the health outcomes of vulnerable individuals and communities. She has served as PI for multiple grants from foundations, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also a core faculty member for an HRSA-funded T32 program focused on developing researchers focused on telehealth, mental health, and addiction medicine. Her current research portfolio includes addressing patient uncertainty related to seeking care, developing novel approaches to reduce the impact of social determinants of health on patient outcomes, promoting digital health equity, promoting vaccine confidence among vulnerable populations, and supporting harm reduction for people who use drugs in both community and health care settings.