Katherine Wentzell, Ph.D., CPNP, BC-ADM, is an assistant professor at the Connell School of Nursing. She is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and is Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Management. Her research focuses on understanding the emotional burden of living with diabetes during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Her current work aims to understand objective financial burden and subjective financial distress, as well as associations with social determinants of health, cost-coping behaviors, health insurance access, and glycemic outcomes in emerging adults living with type 1 diabetes.
Dr. Wentzell completed a NIH T32 funded post-doctoral fellowship and then was named the Mary K. Iacocca Senior Fellow at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wentzell maintains a clinical practice in the Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Section at the Joslin Diabetes Center.
