About Me
Dr. Christian Sinclair is an Associate Professor in the Division of Palliative Medicine at the University of Kansas Health System, and the Section Lead of Outpatient Palliative Care.
After graduating from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in 2000, he completed an Internal Medicine residency at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC in 2003. Directly after his residency, he became the first fellow in the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
Moving to Kansas City in 2004, he served for 8 years as an Associate Hospice Medical Director at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care. His experience with inpatient hospice care during his fellowship in Winston-Salem was fundamental to the creation of the first inpatient hospice facility in the Kansas City Metro in 2006.
In 2005, alongside Dr. Ann Allegre and Dr. Karin Porter-Williamson, he was a co-founder of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Medicine, eventually becoming the Fellowship Program Director.
In 2009, he was elected to the AAHPM Board of Directors as the first fellowship trained physician and youngest board member in the history of the organization. He served on the board for nine years and served as President of AAHPM from 2016-2017. Dr. Sinclair was nominated and selected by his peers as an AAHPM Visionary in 2018 for exemplary contributions to the field. In 2019, he received the AAHPM Gerald H. Holman
Distinguished Service Award, presented to those who have advanced the mission of the AAHPM in a significant and lasting way through outstanding and dedicated service.
In 2013, he was selected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine’s “Committee on Transforming End-Of-Life Care” through the National Academy of Sciences. That committee worked for two years to produce the report "Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life" in 2014.
In 2014, Dr. Sinclair joined the Division of Palliative Medicine at the University of Kansas with a focus on developing the newly emerging field of outpatient palliative care. He became the Section Lead for Outpatient Palliative Care in 2018 and grown the clinics to now serve thousands of patients every year.