Kristen is a consultant geriatrician practicing in the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) in Adelaide, South Australia, working across acute, subacute, residential aged care, and community settings.

She is committed to improving health outcomes for older adults through evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the advancement of quality patient-centred care. Her main areas of interest include dementia, delirium, frailty and falls, multimorbidity, and medication rationalisation. She is also an associate lecturer at Flinders University and is actively involved in clinical research.