Smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a white blouse with yellow and black floral patterns, standing in a bright modern indoor setting.
By: Kathy Whitney

Kris Rehm, MD Vice chair of Outreach Medicine and medical director of Hospital Operations for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Marathon runner; mother to two sets of twins; cancer survivor

Attended Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and did her residency at Boston Children’s Hospital

“I have the best job in the world! Working at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and living in Nashville is a spectacular combination of world-class health care delivery in an amazingly livable city. In just a few minutes I can travel between work and home, allowing me to feel a balance between my responsibilities at each. Having been a patient at Vanderbilt in 2014 when I had cancer gives me an even deeper appreciation of the impact the Medical Center provides to our patients and families.”

Photography by John Russell

A woman in a pink dress and black cardigan walks beside a boy wearing a white soccer jersey with the number 5 on a blue running track; other players and a field are visible behind them.

Her sons’ No. 1 fan, Rehm stays busy watching them play soccer, lacrosse, baseball, cross country and tennis.

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