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Kristi Reynolds, PhD, MPH

Director

Division of Epidemiologic Research

626-564-5103

Kristi.Reynolds@kp.org

Biography

Dr. Kristi Reynolds is a chronic disease epidemiologist and the director of Epidemiologic Research for the Department of Research & Evaluation. Her research focuses on the prevention and treatment of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. She also studies medication adherence, drug safety, and cardiovascular quality of care and outcomes. She has more than 2 decades of experience leading and collaborating on multisite epidemiological and intervention studies. She is also a professor in the Department of Health Systems Science of the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.

Dr. Reynolds is currently a multiple PI of 2 studies funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to evaluate ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and home blood pressure monitoring and risk for falls among older adults with treated hypertension and a third study that is comparing 3 approaches for measuring blood pressure for diagnosing and managing hypertension. She is an editorial board member of several prominent journals.

Areas of Focus

  • Cardiovascular risk factors, treatment, and outcomes
  • Chronic disease epidemiology
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Quality of care

Education

PhD, Epidemiology
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana
MPH, Epidemiology
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow, American Heart Association
  • Fellow, American College of Epidemiology
  • Section Co-Editor, Current Hypertension Reports