Lisa Kitko

Kitko earned a B.S.N. in 1990 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.^[1] She earned a M.S.N. in clinical nurse specialist and adult health (2001) and a Ph.D. in nursing with a minor in gerontology (2010) from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) College of Nursing.^[1]

From 1990 to 2002, Kitko worked as a nurse and later nurse administrator in Pennsylvania.^[1] She joined faculty at the PSU College of Nursing as an instructor in May 2002.^[1] She was promoted to assistant professor in July 2011 and associate professor with tenure in July 2017.^[1] Kitko was inducted as a fellow of the American Heart Association in 2015 and the American Academy of Nursing in 2017.^[2] She served as the associate dean of graduate education and director of the Ph.D. program from 2020 to 2022.^[1]

Kitko joined the University of Rochester September 2022 as a professor of nursing and dean of the school of nursing.^[1] She also became vice president of the University of Rochester Medical Center.^[1] In 2023, she was jointly appointed as the Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing Education.^[3]

Kitko's research experience centers on palliative care of chronic illnesses, with a focus on advanced cardiac failure. In 2015 Kitko was awarded the Josiah S. Macy Jr. Faculty Scholarship, which she used to develop a postgraduate certificate on palliative care.^[4]