Following his fellowship, he remained on the faculty at Johns Hopkins where he served as Director of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics.

In 2000, Dr. Andrews moved to Auckland, New Zealand. There he worked as a consultant general paediatrician at Starship Children’s Hospital. He was also a member of Te Puaruruhau, the Auckland District Health Board service for children and young people who have experienced abuse or neglect. In 2004, he returned to the United States to direct graduate medical education at Children’s Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota. From 2006-2012, he served as Pediatric Residency Program Director at the University of Minnesota, and from 2012-2018, he was Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education there.

In July 2018, Dr. Andrews joined the American Medical Association as its Vice President for Graduate Medical Education Innovations.

Dr. Andrews is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

While at ABEM, she has helped lead multi-organizational outreach activities, including the award-winning Dr. Leon L. Haley, Jr., Bridge to the Future of Emergency Medicine, and the Coalition of Board-Certified Emergency Physicians. She has also led the review process for the EM Model and served as the ABEM liaison for the ACGME Residency Committee-Emergency Medicine. Dr. Barton’s effective and diverse experiences in medical education and health continue to enhance and lead the development of certification opportunities and partnerships for ABEM

Dr. Barton has been a practicing emergency medicine specialist for more than 20 years in Michigan. Early in her career, she practiced at Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Sinai-Grace Hospital, a trauma hospital in northwest Detroit

Dr. Barton earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Doctor of Medicine from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha. She is currently completing a Master of Public Health at the Milken Institute of Public Health at George Washington University. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Sinai-Grace Hospital/Wayne State University, where she served as Chief Resident during her final year of training. A member of the Michigan College of Emergency Physicians (MCEP) since 2004, Dr. Barton served as the MCEP President in 2010 and has remained engaged with the chapter.

Immediately following residency, she assumed the role of Associate Program Director and later Program Director for the DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She also held a faculty appointment as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Dr. Barton is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

As the national director of strategy and partnerships for the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine (KNN), Kimara partners with medical schools and healthcare organizations across the country to identify opportunities to shape organizational cultures of human flourishing and inspire action at multiple institutional levels. She also provides leadership for the KNN program office, developing strategic plans that have enabled the KNN to grow from a network of seven founding medical schools to a vibrant movement of healthcare organizations engaged in various ways.

Her research interests include leadership development for flourishing grounded in Feminist Relational Theory (FRT), praxis and community. Her work aims to explore whether a new paradigm for leadership and followership could support Ecosystem-Wide Flourishing (EWF) in medicine.