Kelly Moore, MD, FAAP

Kelly Moore, MD, FAAP, is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma and currently an Associate Professor at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH) at the Colorado School of Public Health on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Prior to joining the CAIANH in 2008, Dr. Moore served in the Indian Health Service (IHS) for 20 years, with her last assignment as a Clinical Consultant with the IHS national program office for diabetes, the Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

While with IHS, she spent 15 years serving as a clinician and administrator among the Navajo in Kayenta, Arizona, the Gila River Pima in Sacaton, Arizona, the Ute on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah, the Quinault of the Washington Olympic Peninsula, and Northern Plains tribes of Montana and Wyoming. She is a past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Native American Child Health. She is also a former Chair of the American Indian/Alaska Native Work Group of the National Diabetes Education Program. She is a retired Captain in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her major research interests include urban Indian health, childhood type 2 diabetes and obesity, chronic disease management and health disparities.

She lives in Albuquerque with her husband Jon. They have two grown children, Matthew and Tava, and two grandsons.