Dr. Capri Fillmore grew up in rural Michigan surrounded by horses and later attended Barnard College, Columbia University. She earned a master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons before working with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where she contributed to global malnutrition estimates. A fellowship from the UN Food & Agriculture Organization took her to Bangladesh and Thailand to study the nutritional impact of agricultural programs. She then returned to the U.S. for medical school at Vanderbilt University, followed by residencies in Family Medicine at UCLA and Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. During a four-year Epidemiology Fellowship at UCLA, she also worked as a clinician in Appalachia, West Virginia.
Dr. Fillmore served as Medical Director of the City of Milwaukee Health Department and was an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. To pay off student loans, she spent a decade as a family physician with the Indian Health Service, working on reservations in New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, and Montana, followed by two years with the Mayo Clinic System in Wisconsin. Now mostly retired in rural Wisconsin, she continues to provide telemedicine consultations while developing an equine-guided meditation program with her horses.
