Katie Fitzgerald Hones
Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner / Faculty at Harvard Medical School
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Harvard Medical School
Katie Fitzgerald Jones, PhD, APN, CARN-AP is a Palliative Nurse Practitioner at VA Boston Healthcare System and PhD student at Boston College Connell School of Nursing. Her clinical and research interests include cancer pain management, equitable access to substance use disorder treatment, combatting pain and addiction stigma, and enhancing opioid safety in individuals with cancer and substance use disorder. Past clinical experience includes developing a sustainable Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, serving as the Palliative Nurse Director, and creating an innovative Palliative Care Program for older adults at Hebrew Senior Life. Ms. Jones has been an active member of the Palliative Care Academic Community. Over the past years has been an invited speaker at the Harvard Center for Palliative Care, the Harvard Inter-Professional Palliative Care, and the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship. Ms. Jones is a co-leader of the national Palliative Care buprenorphine clinical mentorship support group and research group. In her early research work- she has examined biopsychosocial factors associated with long-term opioid use and chronic pain in cancer survivors, the overlapping philosophies of Palliative Care and Addiction Treatment, and Buprenorphine prescribing practices in Palliative Care clinicians. Her research is supported by funding from the Foundation of Addiction Nursing and the National Institute of Nursing Research Predoctoral Fellowship Award (F31). She has spoken nationally and authored several manuscripts and book chapters on the intersection between palliative care and substance use disorders.
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