Kristen Nordenholz, MD, MSc, FACEP

Kristen Nordenholz, MD, MSc, FACEP is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is Core Educational Faculty responsible for educating residents and medical students and has over 30 years of experience in Emergency Medicine, including 5 years working with the Indian Health Service at rural Tuba City Arizona.  Her career has centered around improving patient care, primarily in the realm of venous thromboembolism, anticoagulation, point of care ultrasound and pathway development to standardize and improve care but she is now branching more in a Social EM direction. Kristen is the Colorado State Lead of the Committee to Protect Healthcare (CTP), a non-profit national advocacy organization centering medical professionals’ voices for “an America where everyone has the health care they need to thrive” and active in Healthier Colorado, a nonprofit bipartisan group which supports health (defined broadly) initiatives and has been involved in Colorado’s State legislative process. As the new Medical Director of the Levitt Center, she is excited to expand the work of the Andrew Levitt Center and broaden the reach of Social EM in Colorado as well as nationally. Her undergraduate degree is from Cornell University in Biochemistry and she graduated medical school from the University of Rochester. Her interests include travel, hiking and music, particularly choral singing.