Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIMPH

Nicholas Comninellis is President and Professor at INMED, the Institute for International Medicine (https://www.inmed.us/). He is also faculty at Research Medical Center Family Medicine Residency (https://hcahealthcaregme.com/locations/research-medical-center/family-medicine-residency/). Over a two-year period Dr. Comninellis served inner-city citizens at Shanghai Charity Hospital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renji_Hospital). Over another two years, he led a healthcare ministry in the war-besieged nation of Angola in southern Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War). Dr. Comninellis next served for six years in the Kansas City public hospital before launching INMED in 2003.  He graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine (https://med.umkc.edu/) and Saint Louis University School of Public Health (https://www.slu.edu/public-health-social-justice) and was a family medicine resident at John Peter Smith Hospital (https://jpshealthnet.org/). Dr. Comninellis also earned a professional diploma in tropical medicine from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (https://wrair.health.mil/) and became board certified in both public health and family medicine. Among his authored books are Shanghai Doctor, Where Do I Go From Here, and INMED International Medicine & Public Health (https://inmedblogs.us/nicholascomninellis/books-2/). Dr. Comninellis is a classical guitarist and faculty co-advisor for UMKC Cru (https://www.cru.org/). He was recognized as the 2009 United Nations Association of the United States World Citizen and the 2015 University of Missouri-Kansas City Alumni of the Year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPUm4IaO_o).