Christian Mackey, MD

 I attended the University of Michigan for my B.S. in Psychology, my MPH in Public Health Nutrition, and for medical school. There, I cultivated interests in providing care for homeless individuals and for climate change advocacy. I feel at home with my colleagues in Family Medicine because I share with them a passion for building relationships with patients and an enthusiasm for an extensive breadth of clinical topics. I look forward to improving my clinical skills through residency, while also exploring career opportunities in research, advocacy, and medical education. The parts of the UNM Family Medicine Residency that attracted me are the opportunities in training from being a large academic training program, having a multilingual patient population, as well as being the state’s safety net health system. To me, moving to Albuquerque from the Midwest meant being closer to family, joining friends who moved to the area before me, and taking advantage of the mountainous outdoors.