Carrie Nelson, M.D.

Dr. Carrie Nelson is Senior Medical Director with Advocate Physician Partners (APP), an organization of approximately 5000 clinically integrated physicians. Dr. Nelson’s primary focus is population health strategies, government programs and consulting with other healthcare systems on Advocate’s clinical integration program and accountable care organization success strategies. Board-certified in family medicine, Dr. Nelson has practiced family medicine for more than 20 years and has been working on issues of health care quality and patient safety since 1999. She has held several professional roles for health care improvement in both hospital and the ambulatory environments. Dr. Nelson completed medical school at Rush Medical College in Chicago. She also completed a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in administrative medicine and population health. Additionally, Dr. Nelson has held the role of president of the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, and Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Health of the Public and Science.