Kristi L VanDerKolk, MD

Residency Program Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Biography

Kristi VanDerKolk, MD, is a family medicine physician. A graduate of Hope College, she earned her medical degree from Wayne State University and completed her residency at the University of Michigan. After graduation, she started work at the Family Health Center, a federally-qualified health center in Kalamazoo and later transitioned to working for Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. She is currently the program director for the Family Medicine Residency Program - Kalamazoo. Dr. VanDerKolk has an interest in transgender health, and has started a transgender clinic. Some of her other interests include undergraduate and graduate medical education as well as physician burn-out and wellbeing.

Education

Residency 2012, Family Medicine Residency, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
MD 2009, School of Medicine, Wayne State University
MD 2009, School of Medicine, Wayne State University
BA, BS 2004, BS in Biology and BA in Spanish, Hope College
BA, BS 2004, BS in Biology and BA in Spanish, Hope College

Board/Specialty

American Board of Family Medicine (Family Medicine)