Dr. Holly Kirkland Kyhn

Biography

Holly Kirkland-Kyhn is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, UC Davis. With over 20 years of experience as a nurse practitioner, she leads wound care at UC Davis Medical Center and plays a vital role in mentoring clinical students. Kirkland-Kyhn is the associate director of a new Integrative Nurse-Led Mobile Clinic project, which aims to provide high-quality, evidence-based health care to individuals experiencing homelessness, refugees, and unaccompanied minors in urban and underserved rural communities. This initiative is staffed by faculty from the School of Nursing and provides essential clinical learning experiences. She is actively involved in UC Davis Medical Center's Street Medicine program, contributing to education efforts such as 'Treating Wounds at Dollar Tree.' Early in her career, she worked as a nurse midwife in England and Ireland before focusing on disaster relief efforts in Africa, Haiti, and Belize, promoting safe maternal-child care in rural areas. Kirkland-Kyhn holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from UCSF with a focus on geriatrics and obesity, and has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles. She collaborates with residents in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department at UC Davis Health on various research projects.

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