Originally from Fayetteville, AR, Dr. Shelby Tripod is a board-certified family medicine physician who is passionate about giving back to a community that helped educate her. She graduated from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State in Jonesboro, AR, in 2020 and completed her family medicine residency in McAlester, OK, in 2024. Her medical interests include chronic weight management, women’s health, preventative care, clinic-based procedures, osteopathic manipulative medicine and helping her patients manage stress, anxiety, and depression. Outside of medicine, her hobbies include reading, cooking, traveling and singing. She enjoys spending time with her husband and dogs as well as her family and friends.