Christina Kelly, MD, FAAFP
Associate Professor
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Dr. Christina Kelly is a family physician and Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She received her medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her residency and family medicine-obstetrics fellowship training at Tacoma Family Medicine in Washington. She has more than two decades of experience in clinical medicine, including deep experience in leadership and medical education. She is particularly passionate about advocacy, mentorship, physician workforce diversity, creating health equity, and student and resident burnout prevention.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Structural inequities and power imbalance add significant complexity for patients and team members in interprofessional care teams. We need effective strategies to address this complexity, and one approach is relational leadership (RL). RL is a human-centered approach to working with others that cultivates connection and awareness to increase belonging, collaboration, equity, and impact across health systems. RL is vital for care teams to lead change, advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and navigate the complexities of modern healthcare delivery. People are multi-…