{"id":15648,"date":"2021-01-13T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/medex\/?page_id=15648"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:57:22","slug":"natalie-kong-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/about-medex-nw\/faculty-staff\/kona-faculty\/natalie-kong-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Kehau Kong, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Associate Teaching Professor,<br \/>Didactic Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dr. Natalie Kehau Kong was born in Waimanalo, O \u2018ahu. She went to the John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine Residency in Phoenix, AZ. She went on to receive fellowship training in Obstetrics and Rural Medicine in Tacoma, WA. Upon her return home to Hawai\u2019i she became a faculty member at the Hawai\u2019i Island Family Medicine Residency Program in Hilo, HI. She then practiced full spectrum Family Medicine including obstetrics in Waimea, Hawai\u2019i Island. She currently practices Family Medicine in her home town of Waimanalo.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dr. Kong loves caring for the entire family and believes that health starts at home in the family unit. She is active with Hawaiian culture, dancing hula, trying to learn\u202f<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u2018oli<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, or Hawaiian chanting, and including Hawaiian cultural models of health into her clinical practice.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dr. Kong joined the MEDEX Kona faculty team in 2020 as an Assistant Teaching Professor.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Associate Teaching Professor,<br \/>Didactic Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16456,"parent":15148,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15648","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15648"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27606,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15648\/revisions\/27606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/medex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}