Expertise and excitement. Kristi has aided hundreds of doctors across America for more than twenty years. Placing world-class medical talent in some of the most diverse regions of the nation. Helping doctors achieve their personal and professional goals. She’s hands-on because, for her, it’s a passion.

Kristi recently served as head legal counsel for an international nursing recruitment startup. But for most of her career, she represented healthcare orgs in securing international medical talent. Believing that the individual physician is not being adequately represented in most visa matters, she now seeks to fill that gap.

With the recent establishment of the Great Lakes Authority, she leads advocacy efforts to develop a J-1 waiver program that could bring medical talent to eight states in the great lakes region.

Kristi resides in Michigan with her husband, an electrophysiologist. She is an outdoor enthusiast.

EDUCATION

Loyola University (LLM Health Law. Expected 2024)

University of Memphis (J.D. 1999)

NOTATIONS

• Long and Winding Road: National Interest Waivers for Physicians (Aronson, R. Ed, 2011) The Physician Immigration Book 2011-12 Edition

• Filed Amicus Curiae Brief in Matter of H-V-P-, Adopted Decision 2016-01 (AAO Feb. 9, 2016) which clarifies that, in addition to primary care physicians, medical specialists who agree to practice in any area designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services as having a shortage of health care professionals may be eligible for the physician national interest waiver under section 203(b)(2)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Special thanks to esteemed colleague Charles Winterstein who litigated this matter and won an important victory for IMGs.

• 2008 interview with Today’s Hospitalist.

• Challenges for the Foreign Physician, Physicians News Digest (June 2005)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Chair, Great Lakes Authority-IMG Taskforce Working Group

Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association

Member, International Medical Graduate Taskforce

Board Member, World Medical Relief

BAR ADMISSIONS*

State Bar of Tennessee 

*Practice is limited to federal immigration matters.