K. Kelly, MD
Karina Kelly was born and raised in Aruba. After finishing high school, Colegio Arubano VWO, in Aruba, she went to the USA. There she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree at Gannon University in Pennsylvania. She went to medical school at St Louis University Medical School in Missouri and finished her Internal Medicine residency in New Mexico. She is an experienced internist practicing her craft for almost 20 years on Aruba. She chose to move from private practice to work for the Dr Horacio Oduber Hospital in 2010. This was in an effort to improve our quality of patient care by working more as an internal medicine team. In addition to having an office at Shocohin, she also goes once a week to her office at IMSAN in San Nicolas where she also sees patients.
Clinical activity:
Professional activities:
Languages
Advanced: Dutch, Papiamento, Spanish, English
Clinical activity:
- General internal medicine patients are seen at both offices
- Treatment of HIV patients
- Rheumatoid Arthritis and other autoimmune diseases
- Diabetes Mellitus plus all the complications
- Thyroid disease
- Recently took over transgender care
Professional activities:
- Chairperson for Internal Medicine Vakgroep 2012-2014
- Chairperson Infectious disease committee 2012-2016
- Member of the HIV team
- Member of the Board of Medical Specialists 2015-2016
- Member of the American College of Physicians
Languages
Advanced: Dutch, Papiamento, Spanish, English