Kristi Crymes, DO, is Associate Program Director and faculty at CoxHealth Family Medicine Residency in Springfield, MO where she also leads the Lifestyle Medicine Program. She is a Zen Leader/HEAL certified instructor, a member of the IZL Board of Directors and a Chosei Zen student.

She is passionate about practicing and teaching the kind of medicine that allows for the free expression of compassion. She found the path to this way of medicine at her first IZL/HEAL program in 2017. Since then, she has devoted herself to the challenge of integrating what she is learning through Zen into the practice of medicine. She believes Zen Leadership training can transform medicine into something better for all of us. Beyond this, she sees that anyone from any walk of life who is practicing Zen is indeed practicing medicine, in its truest form.