UNLV School of Nursing announces Dr. Lissi Hansen, the May E. Rawlinson Distinguished Professor at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), as the speaker for the 2025 Yucha Lecture for her talk, “Collaborative Approaches in Nursing Science and Palliative Care: Navigating the Human Side.”

Dr. Hansen is the May E. Rawlinson Distinguished Professor at the School of Nursing at Oregon Health & Science University. She received her first nursing degree in Denmark from Sankt Lukas Stiftelsen’s School of Nursing, a BSN from Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, and an MS and PhD from Oregon Health & Science University. She was awarded a John A. Hartford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition, she is a Faculty Scholar from the Palliative Care Education & Practice Program at the Harvard Medical School. She is a Fellow in Inter-professional Health Care Ethics from the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health & Science University. Her roles include clinical research and teaching in palliative/end-of-life care, ethics, and mixed methods. Her research is multidisciplinary, with a focus on liver disease, including cancer, symptoms and symptom management, caregiver burden, quality of life, treatment decision-making at the end of life, and quality indicators for palliative care. Dr. Hansen has received several internal innovation grants and external funding from the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the John A Hartford Foundation.