Rate My Professor Latarsha Chisholm

Latarsha Chisholm, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an associate professor in Health Science at the University of Central Florida, holding her position in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics within the College of Community Innovation and Education. She joined UCF in 2012 after serving as a NIH/NIA post-doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chisholm obtained her Ph.D. in health services research, management, and policy from the University of Florida in 2010. She also earned a Master of Social Work on the clinical track and a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of South Florida. Her early experience included an internship at the Tampa U.S. Veterans Affairs Hospital during her graduate social work program, which ignited her focus on health services and quality of care. She maintains a secondary joint appointment in the Disability, Aging, and Technology cluster.

Chisholm's research examines long-term services and supports, quality of care, health disparities, dementia care, aging, and the implementation and dissemination of healthcare innovations, especially in nursing homes serving minority populations. She employs primary and secondary data collection and has undertaken clinical trial trainings to support intervention studies on quality improvement for long-term care residents. Her scholarship includes over 20 peer-reviewed publications, such as 'Nursing Home Quality and Financial Performance: Does the Racial Composition of Residents Matter?' (2013), 'Culture Change in Nursing Homes: What Is the Role of Nursing Home Leadership?' (2018), 'State Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Nursing Homes' (2021), 'Implementation of Goals of Care Communication Innovation Among Nursing Homes: A Multiple Case Study Design' (2021), 'Agency Nursing Staff Utilization and Turnover in Nursing Homes: A Longitudinal Analysis' (2025), and 'Culture Change and Quality of Care Among High Medicaid Nursing Homes: Does Earlier Implementation Matter?' (2025). She has presented at national meetings and Moffitt Cancer Center, accumulating 376 citations. Notable awards encompass the NIH Loan Repayment Program (2014-2016), Butler Williams Scholar Program (NIH/NIA, 2018), UCF Research Incentive Award (2018), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Research Program (2013), UCF College of Public Affairs Research Fellow (2013), and AcademyHealth Disparities Interest Group Emerging Scholar (2009). Chisholm contributes to the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and AcademyHealth committees while advancing projects on end-of-life care transitions for dementia patients in nursing homes.