Tillman Scholar Spotlight! 🏆 2023 Tillman Scholar Kristin MacDonald was named a 2025-2026 Virginia Commonwealth University Shift Labs Faculty Fellow Awardee for her work advancing care for older adults and supporting the healthcare professionals who serve them. Through the Virginia Long-Term Care Clinician Network, Kristin helps connect medical directors and clinicians across the Commonwealth, creating opportunities for peer learning, collaboration, and access to the latest evidence-based care. Her research focuses on a simple but powerful idea: when caregivers experience compassion in the workplace, they thrive: and so do the communities they serve. “My own research seeks to understand how compassion in the workplace benefits direct caregivers, specifically nursing home certified nursing assistants, and I aim to develop testable interventions to decrease turnover among these workers." From serving as a dietitian and healthcare administrator to mentoring the next generation of heal...