Kristen Dimas

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Physician, Medical Director, Graduate Medical Residency Program

Lee Health

Born at Lee Memorial Hospital and raised in Immokalee, Kristen Dimas grew up with dreams of helping her community. After graduating from Florida State University College of Medicine in 2016, she returned to Southwest Florida to complete her residency training, and today serves as medical director of the Family Medicine residency at Lee Health.

“One of my goals is to address health disparities for underserved populations and to care for all patients, regardless of socio-economic status. And I want to recruit and train more outstanding physicians dedicated to this community mission,” she says. “As co-chair for a health disparities sub-committee devoted to positively impacting and evaluating those disparities and developing working solutions to address those disparities, we were able to identify the specific disparity, the key operational issue and resources needed to address the gaps. This collaborative work resulted in a recent $3.2 million grant to support community outreach efforts and partners to impact obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and more.”

The efforts of Dimas and her health disparities committee supported the Barbershop Wellness Program, the Mobile Medicine Program, the Community Partnership School and more.