Dr. Chris Linares, MD
Primary Care Physician, Personalized Care
Chris Linares, MD, is a board-certified family physician with over 26 years of experience providing comprehensive, patient-centered care in the Denver area. She earned her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and completed her residency training in a program affiliated with Mount Sinai Medical School in Queens, New York.
In 2003, Dr. Linares founded Lone Tree Family Practice in Lone Tree, Colorado, with a vision of delivering personalized, relationship-based primary care. Under her leadership, the practice has grown from two providers to a thriving team of twelve, while maintaining a strong commitment to accessibility, continuity, and high-quality care.
Recognizing the need for deeper patient engagement and enhanced access, Dr. Linares launched a personalized care program within Lone Tree Family Practice in 2013. This program focuses on providing patients with more time, attention, and direct access to their physician, supporting a more individualized and proactive approach to health.
Dr. Linares has a longstanding interest in integrative wellness and preventive care. Her personal interests include tai chi and qigong, which reflect her holistic approach to health and balance. Outside of medicine, she enjoys hiking with her husband and their dogs, gardening, horseback riding, and traveling.
Dr. Linares remains dedicated to fostering long-term relationships with her patients and supporting the health and well-being of the community she has served for more than two decades.
FAQ’s
Dr. Linares: I had a biology teacher who really believed in me. I shared with him that I wanted to be a doctor and he’s like, of course, absolutely. So, when you have an adult like that who absolutely believes 100 percent that you can do this thing that nobody in your family has done, well, it was life-changing for me.
Another adult who affected me a lot was my stepmom. My stepmom was a very strong woman. She worked her whole life. She worked very hard, but she was always composed and pulled together. And, she just kind of showed me what a working woman could look like taking care of her kids and being very professional at the same time.
Dr. Linares: It was an old Times Square hotel that was being renovated to house low-income people. There were very ill people living there, squatting there and there was a lot of mental illness, some addiction and they were living in very poor circumstances. It was a perspective that I had never seen growing up in a small town in Ohio.
To see the depth of need in that place consolidated my desire to help people and my drive to become a doctor.
Dr. Linares: Sure, I’m family physician and co-owner of Lone Tree Family Practice. At Sky Ridge Medical Center I am chair of family medicine and I’ve been there for 17 ½ years. I’m also involved with the Colorado Medical Society and president of my county chapter, as well. I think it’s important to be involved in other parts of medicine, other than patient care, because it gives me a good perspective as to what’s going on in the hospital and a political perspective as to what’s going on in our state around healthcare.
I just think it’s very important to keep apprised of what’s going on in the bigger world of medicine.
What is the age of the oldest patient you treat?
92
What is the age of the youngest patient you treat?
A few months old
First thing you want to do post COVID:
Listen to music outside at a concert
What’s your favorite type of music?
Rock and roll, blues, jazz. Mostly rock and roll.
Last book read:
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
What are your favorite movies of all time?
Forest Gump, Ballroom Dancing
Bucket list travel destinations?
Glacier National Park, Greece, Italy, Viet Nam, Cambodia
If you could do anything else for a living, what would it be?
I honestly don’t know because I’m doing what I always wanted to do and have never thought about doing anything else. I guess I’m lucky that way.
Who/what is your spirit animal?
Wild mustang
If you could have lunch with any person living or dead, who would it be?
Michelle Obama
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