Kelsey Kolbe (she/her) grew up moving around overseas in the family of foreign service officer parents. She took a winding path to medicine, studying gender studies and classics at the University of Oklahoma. She also worked in LGBTQ+ community advocacy and gender-based violence prevention before completing a post-baccalaureate premedical program at Johns Hopkins. At Brown medical school, she led health equity research and developed a love for narrative medicine. As a pediatrician, she is especially excited to support gender diverse and queer patients access comprehensive, inclusive healthcare.

Kelsey loves lindy hop, feminist sci fi/fantasy books, and cats (her cat most of all)! She and her partner couples-matched and are beyond excited to join the Vanderbilt Pediatrics and Orthopedics families.