Dr. Janet Hurley

Janet Hurley, MD, MBA, FAAFP, is a family physician whose work spans clinical care and healthcare operations. She serves as Director of Physician Practice Operations for CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic and CHRISTUS Health and practices as a family physician with CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic in Tyler, Texas. Her clinical focus includes comprehensive primary and preventive care across the lifespan, chronic disease and medication management, and collaborative behavioral health integration within outpatient primary care. Dr. Hurley’s professional interests center on advancing high-quality, team-based primary care. Her research and scholarly focus includes practice innovation and quality improvement, population health and the social factors that shape health outcomes, and behavioral health integration and whole-person care. A recognized physician leader, Dr. Hurley is a past president and former board chair of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, an alternate delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates, and an appointee to multiple national AAFP commissions. She has also held leadership roles with the Texas Primary Care Consortium, the Texas Medical Home Initiative, and regional public health and health policy efforts. Dr. Hurley earned her medical degree from Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, completed her family medicine residency at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, and later received an Executive MBA in Healthcare Management from The University of Texas at Tyler.