In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Kalember is passionate about education and is a clinical instructor at the Feinberg School of Medicine. In this role, Dr. Kalember has served as a preceptor for the Education-Centered Medical Home, a longitudinal primary care clinical experience for medical students. She has also been a faculty preceptor for the Problem-Based Learning medical student curriculum and currently works on the medical school’s admissions committee, where she interviews applicants applying to the Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Kalember graduated from Northwestern University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in biology. She subsequently attended Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her residency training in 2012 in Internal Medicine at Northwestern. During her residency, Dr. Kalember was the recipient of numerous residency teaching awards, including the Gerald Grumet Award for best resident teacher. She also conducted research investigating strategies to improve quality reporting in primary care settings.

Upon completing her residency, Dr. Kalember joined Northwestern Internal Medicine, where she practiced primary care on the downtown campus from 2012 until 2017, when she joined Northwestern’s concierge medicine Personal Physician Care practice which provides comprehensive, evidence-based, individualized care to patients. She is thrilled to now bring her experience and expertise in practicing individualized concierge medicine to Thrive Internal Medicine.

Kalember’s passion for education extends into her clinical practice, where she believes medicine should be a partnership between a patient and a physician. By arming patients with evidence-based knowledge about their health, healthcare decisions can be made as a team and can be individualized to meet each patient’s unique health goals.

When she is not caring for patients, Dr. Kalember loves to travel, try new restaurants, cheer on her favorite Chicago sports teams, and spend time with friends and family.