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Professor Catherine Evans is the Interim Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute and a Professor of Palliative Care at King's College London, with a joint appointment at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. She leads research on integrating palliative care into community settings for older adults with multimorbidity, including dementia and frailty, and co-leads the EMBED-Care initiative and CovPall_CareHome studies. Her work focuses on optimizing end-of-life care through policy development and clinical-academic collaboration.
- Affiliations:
- Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
- Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (Honorary Nurse Consultant)
Education:
- Doctor of Nursing Science, King's College London (2008)
- MSc Gerontology, King's College London (2001)
- Bachelor of Nursing, King's College London (1994)
Research: Catherine's research emphasizes palliative care integration in primary/community healthcare, digital advance care planning, and dementia care policy. Her recent work includes multinational studies on palliative care delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa and systematic reviews on sarcopenia interventions in long-term care.
Grants & Leadership: She manages NIHR-funded programs and chairs strategic groups like the Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Advisory Board. Current projects include the NIHR INSIGHT initiative supporting nursing research careers and the EMPOWER Dementia Network Plus.
