ANN L. COLBERT

Dr. Ann Colbert has been a family and palliative care physician in Eastern Kentucky for four decades. She worked in Belize as the volunteer medical director of Hillside Clinic and has also worked at clinics and hospitals in Africa and Mexico. Since her retirement from clinical medicine in 2023, she devotes time to music, writing and social activism. She has published multiple commentaries about her experiences with end of life care and international health. These pieces can be found at anncolbez.wordpress.com as well as in the Kentucky Academy of Family Practice Journal. Her first work of fiction was a novel published in 2024 titled Ava Finds Time: A Tale of Medicine and Music in Appalachia. She lives on the edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Morehead with her partner and her faithful companion. One is human, the other a canine.