Dr. Crymes is a faculty physician with Cox Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, Missouri. She is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and served in the US Air Force for eight years. She earned her DO degree at ATSU-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency at Cox. Over the past five years, Dr. Crymes has become extremely interested in the concept of mindfulness. She has attended courses and obtained certification to teach mindfulness. She currently teaches mindfulness classes to patients for treatment of pain and stress-related illness and has worked to incorporate mindfulness in the medicine curriculum for physicians at the Cox Residency Program as of this spring.