Kate Connor MD, MSPH is a primary care pediatrician, medical director of the Rales Center for the Integration of Health and Education and assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Connor’s work focuses on preventive care redesign, particularly school health, as a means to engage traditionally marginalized families and to improve health and educational equity. At the Rales Center, she works with a multi-disciplinary team of professionals to create, implement, and evaluate clinical programs that utilize an innovative population health approach. She is core faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for School Health, Chair of the Maryland Council on the Advancement of School Based Health Centers, and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on School Health Executive Committee. Dr. Connor received her bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her medical doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency training and chief residency at Children’s Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. At Johns Hopkins, she completed a fellowship in general academic pediatrics and earned a master’s degree in public health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has been providing primary and school-based healthcare for Baltimore kids and families since 2010 and will celebrate her 10th year with the Rales Center in this spring.