{"id":4735,"date":"2023-05-30T16:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/geriatrics\/?page_id=4735"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:48:58","slug":"dr-laura-hanson-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/geriatrics\/research\/dr-laura-hanson-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Laura Hanson Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH<\/div>
Professor of Medicine
\nMedical Director, UNC Palliative Care Program
\nAssociate Director, Geriatric Fellowship Program<\/div><\/div>
\nLaura C. Hanson, CV<\/a>
\nPubMed Bibliography<\/a><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n
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Areas of Interest<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
\nGeriatric medicine; Palliative medicine; Long-term care<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Projects Pages<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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About Dr. Hanson<\/span><\/h2>\n

Dr. Laura Hanson is a tenured Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1986, Dr. Hanson trained in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston. She then completed fellowships in Geriatric Medicine and in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UNC. In 1991 she was awarded an MPH degree in Epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

She is a founding co-Director of the UNC Palliative Care Program<\/a>, an interdisciplinary program of palliative care services and related research and teaching and currently serves as its director. Additionally, Dr. Hanson is a board-certified physician in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. As a result, she provides clinical services for frail and medically complex older patients, and for adult patients of all ages with serious and potentially life-limiting illness.<\/p>\n

As the lead clinical investigator on the PEACE Project<\/a> she helped to develop and test clinical quality measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum and applied nationwide in hospice care. She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator for numerous studies to improve nursing home dementia care, including two NIH-NIA funded randomized clinical trials of decision aids for palliative care in advanced dementia. Dr. Hanson also serves on the Steering Committee and as a site-Principal Investigator for the Measurement Core of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative group<\/a>, a nationwide palliative care clinical trials network.<\/p>\n

Read: Hanson Receives Ronald J. Falk Vanguard Award<\/a>
\nRead: INPCS Recognizes Dr. Hanson<\/a>
\nRead: Trial To Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Nursing Home Residents<\/a>
\nRead: NIA Awards $4.1million in Funding to Multicenter Trial led by Dr. Laura Hanson<\/a>
\nRead: McCann, Hanson Worked Proactively to Support Congregate Living Communities Early in the Pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n

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Education and Training<\/span><\/h2>\n