Dr. Kristi Linsenmayer tells the story of her journey from practice general dentistry at the Seattle Indian Health Board for 10 years, after deciding to become a pediatric dentist. She also simultaneously trained to receive an MPH degree, sewing together academic training with the years of experience in her passionate area of interest. Kristi tells us how she built a practice first in the hospital, then in an outpatient setting, all organically for many years.  Be inspired by listening to Dr. Linsenmayer and her amazing journey. Bio: Dr. Linsenmayer is a board-certified pediatric dentist. She has practiced dentistry for almost 30 years. Raised in the Pacific Northwest she earned both a BS degree in Molecular Biology and a DDS degree from the University of Washington. After practicing dentistry as a general dentist for a decade at the Seattle Indian Health Board, an Urban American Indian/ Alaska Native (AI/AN) clinic, she returned to the University of Washington and completed training in Pediatric Dentistry. In conjunction with the pediatric dental residency program, she also received a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH). The program was part of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s leadership training in pediatric dentistry. She has established two busy pediatric dental offices that she owns in Seattle and Southeast Alaska. Her practice now is in Ketchikan, a small Southeast Alaska community in the heart of the Tonguss National Rainforest. Geographically, it is north of Vancouver Island with similar weather to the Pacific Southeast, and very different from the snowy tundra of what we might picture Alaska to be. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.