Kyrsten Hill, Ph.D.

Dr. Kyrsten Hill (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCCS, where she joined the faculty in 2024. She is cross-affiliated with the Geropsychology track and the Stress, Trauma, Adversity, and Resilience (STAR) track within the UCCS Clinical Psychology program, given her interests at the intersection of stress/trauma, and aging. Dr. Hill earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Alabama, with a concentration in Clinical Geropsychology, and completed her predoctoral internship at the VA St. Louis Healthcare System. Before joining UCCS, she completed a postdoctoral research position at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Colorado.

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Dr. Hill’s research broadly focuses on stress, health, and well-being across adulthood into late life. The goal of her research is to better understand when and how older adults maintain positive health and well-being in the face of stress. Her research has examined major stressful life events, traumatic stress, and daily stressors. Dr. Hill is interested in how stress, health, and well-being change in the short-term (i.e., from moment-to-moment and day-to-day) as well as in the long-term (i.e., across years and decades as people age). Her research connects stress and well-being to important healthy aging outcomes, such as physical health, mental health, and cognitive functioning/dementia risk.