Catherine Evans is a senior clinical academic in palliative care and nursing. She is a Professor of Palliative Care at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy, and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, and Honorary Nurse Consultant, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. Catherine leads a research programme on integration of community palliative care with dementia and geriatric care, and transitions between hospital and home.

Her interventions incorporate new models of palliative care in primary and community care, use of person-centred outcomes for holistic assessment linked with clinical decision aids, and digital healthcare for remote assessment and management of care. She co-leads the programme EMBED-Care Empowering Better End of Life Dementia Care and the EMPOWER Dementia Network+ – Empowering a meaningful life for all.