About

Crister is a family physician who is passionate about community health and teaching in rural and historically underserved settings.  He is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina. He completed his medical school at UC Davis in the Community Health Scholars Track as a Rural PRIME student and his Master’s in Public Health at UC Berkeley focused on health collaborations and shared leadership with communities experiencing homelessness based on relationships built through ethnographic life history interviews.  His residency training at UCSF was formative in building experience in organizing and learning from community advisory councils. He enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors in nature.