Kristi Gafford

Kristi Gafford currently serves as the Senior Vice President of the Cancer Institute at Hartford HealthCare, a position held since 2018. Prior to this role, Kristi Gafford was the Executive Director at UF Health from 2015 to 2018 and the Chief of Staff at the University of Connecticut Health Center from 2012 to 2015. Additional experience includes serving as the Administrative Director at Wake Forest Baptist Health for a year in 2012 and as the Executive Director at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri Health Care from 2006 to 2011. Kristi Gafford holds a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and an MBA from The University of Kansas, along with education from Duke University.