Dr. Kimberly Mohs is an internist at Northern Navajo Medical Center (NNMC), part of the Indian Health Service (IHS), in Shiprock, New Mexico.  She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke. She earned her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, and completed her internal medicine residency at Duke University.  While in residency, on the advice of her program director, Dr. Ralph Corey, she participated in the HYC’s global health elective rotation, working for 3 months at Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya.

In collaboration with the HYC, Dr. Mohs has served as an on-site supervisor for Duke trainees at NNMC. She has also been a partner in capacity development between IHS and Duke.  Her main areas of work at this time include underserved medicine, palliative care and diabetes care program management. Her favorite part of hosting Duke trainees is taking them on palliative care home visits out to remote areas of the Navajo Nation reserve.