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Physician Innovator

“My physician superpower is that I genuinely care deeply about my patients and integrate that fact into every aspect of my mission. I approach their care as I would want someone to care for my family members. My patient care experiences inspire my lifelong learning commitment for medical practice as well as my research and entrepreneurial efforts to improve not only health, but also quality of life. I truly honor the privilege of having my patients trust me as their doctor.”

- Dr. Kilgore-Nolan

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Clinical Focus

After taking a sabbatical from clinical care in the aftermath of her own cancer journey and becoming a mother, Dr. Kilgore-Nolan reconfigured her career goals to better align with her values and integrate all of her professional interests. In doing so, she decided to switch her clinical specialty from Obstetrics and Gynecology to Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine. Her clinical practice will focus on whole-person personalized and preventive health strategies. 

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Research Interests

Dr. Kilgore-Nolan takes her passion for helping her patients beyond the bedside to not only contribute to excellent clinical care, but also research issues and develop solutions that impact health outcomes. She has engaged in research funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) at some of the most world-renowned and cutting-edge research centers at Emory, Duke, and Yale universities. She completed a Physician Researcher Initiative (PRI) Fellowship and has been awarded prizes for dissemination of research at national conferences. Her primary research focuses on the health and life strategies of high-impact leaders and the role community leaders play in advancing population health.

If you’re interested in exploring a potential research collaboration, submit the paid services request form, including key highlights related to your project goals.

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Healthcare Consulting

Dr. Kilgore-Nolan specializes in healthcare innovation at the intersection of patient care, public health, business, and policy. As a Yale-trained physician, she has mastered world-class clinical skills, ranging from holistic and preventive health care to complex and specialized care, across a diverse array of settings, ranging from resource-constrained to state-of-the-art health systems. She has also participated in the full spectrum of biomedical research, ranging from basic science and clinical trials to health services outcomes and public health policy. As a Harvard MBA/Social Enterprise Fellow turned AI healthcare startup founder, she wields skills in design thinking, managerial thinking, and systems change to collaboratively develop real-world solutions to address frustratingly complex healthcare problems.

If you’re interested in hiring Dr. Kilgore-Nolan in a consulting or advisory capacity, submit the paid services request form, including key highlights related to your project goals.

Health Education

Dr. Kilgore-Nolan is passionate about using her platform to provide factual, digestible, and relevant health education, especially as it relates to empowering self-advocacy to navigate broken healthcare systems. On social media, her Defensive Wellness™ series highlights common patient experiences and provides evidence-based strategies to advocate for your own health and the health of others. Additionally, Dr. Kilgore-Nolan volunteers at health fairs and similar community events to support mental health equity and teach self-advocacy strategies. If you’re interested in learning from Dr. Kilgore-Nolan, follow her on social media @drkilgorenolan and book her to speak at your next event.

Career Insights

Through speaking engagements, social media content, and published writing, Dr. Kilgore-Nolan openly shares her challenges, insights, and joys throughout her career and leadership journey. Throughout her medical journey, she has remained committed to educating and mentoring medical trainees and aspiring physicians, especially establishing a strong pipeline of underrepresented physicians to provide care for underserved communities. As she exists in privileged spaces and considers the intersectionalities of disadvantage that she has personally traversed, she is particularly interested in bridging healthcare and entrepreneurial leadership gaps, especially for those who may lack necessary resources to become leaders in their respective areas of impact.

Subscribe to the Dr. Kilgore-Nolan channel on YouTube for a front row ticket to witness her: 

  • Scaling impact through serial entrepreneurship,
  • Navigating her multifaceted career,
  • Educating from her uniquely synergistic professional viewpoints,
  • Sharing real-life ups, downs, and extraordinary experiences, 
  • And exploring high-impact life strategies to balance self-care, home, work, and play!
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Testimonials

While her CV and academic achievements are impressive, the most outstanding aspects of Dr. Kilgore-Nolan are difficult to discern from a CV. I can personally attest that she has a uniquely deep level of personal commitment, empathy, and compassion that she brings to every single encounter with a patient and every single clinical decision.

Department Vice Chair & NIH-Funded Investigator

I have worked closely with Dr. Kilgore-Nolan in multiple capacities: research mentor, career advisor, and clinical preceptor. I have not only witnessed her impeccable work ethic and brilliant mind in action, but also appreciated her genuine character, relentless resilience, and leadership...

Tenured Associate Professor & NIH-Funded Investigator

Dr. Kilgore-Nolan’s extensive training and complementary research experiences have given her an impressive breadth of skills and interdisciplinary perspectives that position her for a uniquely innovative physician-scientist career. I am particularly invigorated by Dr. Kilgore-Nolan’s path of relentlessly overcoming adversity and her promise as an innovative and interdisciplinary investigator.

Department Vice Chair & NIH-Funded Research Program Director

Dr. Kilgore-Nolan is a promising caregiver, community advocate, social entrepreneur, and healthcare leader with an exceptional capacity for lifelong learning and ethical integrity.

Associate Dean & Founding Director of NIH-Funded Research Institute

Through my mentorship commitment to Dr. Kilgore-Nolan, I have come to realize her potential as a catalyst for meaningful innovation and progress in both local and global healthcare domains.

Endowed Professor & NIH-Funded Investigator

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