Kimberly Dawn Nordstrom MD, JD, DFAPA

Dr. Kimberly Nordstrom received her medical and legal degrees at Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine and School of Law, respectively. She trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine where she also served as chief resident. Dr. Nordstrom has worked in the fields of general adult, emergency, and forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Nordstrom joined Colorado Access in 2018 as medical director for behavioral health. Before Colorado Access, she was medical director of the office of behavioral health and the division director for the Colorado Mental Health Institutes for the State of Colorado. For years, she worked as the medical director for psychiatric emergency services at Denver Health Medical Center which was an administrative, clinical and teaching position. She is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry with the University of Colorado, Denver and board certified in general adult psychiatry.

Dr. Nordstrom has researched and written extensively in the field of behavioral emergencies. Her work can be found in both psychiatry and emergency medicine journals and texts. Dr. Nordstrom has spoken on various behavioral emergency topics nationally and internationally. She has served as the chair of the Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies and President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. She is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.