Christine Kempton, MD

Christine Kempton is a physician, certified coach, and former academic hematologist who spent more than two decades caring for patients, mentoring physicians, and leading in academic medicine at Emory University, where she holds emeritus status.

Today, through Christine Kempton Coaching, she works with high-achieving women in medicine who look successful on the outside but often find that work and life feel heavier than they expected. Many learned to handle pressure by pushing harder, carrying more, being the responsible one, and looking outside themselves for certainty. Over time, those strategies can erode self-trust and leave them disconnected from themselves.

She helps women reconnect with themselves, rebuild self-trust, and create a more sustainable way to lead, practice, and live without giving up ambition. Her work draws on her experience as a physician and leader, along with evidence-based coaching and emotional regulation, helping women create success that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

Her research spans patient-reported outcomes and quality of life in people with hemophilia, racial and ethnic disparities in hemophilia care, differences between men and women with hemophilia, immune tolerance induction, and representation in clinical trials. Her work has appeared in Blood Advances, Haemophilia, and the American Journal of Medicine, where she has also written about burnout in health care. She shares updates on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.