About Christina Glavin, PA-C

All my life I have heard, she has such a beautiful face followed by a smile and a disappointed face. Being overweight always felt like a character flaw. Ever since third grade, I went to school with a bland salad in my lunch feeling deprived and hungry. In the mornings, my mom would wake me up and in the living room we would do one of Jane Fonda‘s fabulous aerobic workouts prior to me heading off to grade school. Despite my best ability and my mothers, I continued to gain weight through childhood. I was bullied throughout grade school, middle school, and high school for being the “fat” girl. I felt so alone. 

I ate well, or so I thought, and worked out daily to maintain a weight of 220 pounds. I yo-yoed throughout my life, trying what seemed like endless diets; Jenny Craig, weight watchers, the rotation, diet, Fen/Phen, Adkins, slim fast, medifast, the cabbage, soup diet, severe caloric restriction (800 calories daily), keto, thermogenic pills, and food delivery diets only to lose weight and gain it back plus some. I felt like a failure and an outcast. I kept my head down and stayed quiet to avoid ridicule from others. I have been where you’re at. 

At 31 years old and 370 pounds, I had to make some changes. My education and my constant drive to achieve a healthy and fit body were the sole purposes in my young life. 

Through my medical experience, I knew that my life experiences and medical aptitude could be used to help others. I met Dr. Persondek  and realized that we had many of the same aspirations and goals in life. I joined her team with the sole intention of helping others find solutions that were not available to me. 

I have almost 20 years experience as a certified physician assistant, including experience in cardiology, pulmonology, critical care, emergency medicine, internal medicine, and most recently orthopedic trauma, including joint replacement.

I have a special passion for helping those individuals that need to lose weight prior to an orthopedic procedure. I personally know what it’s like to need a knee replacement, or a hip replacement but be denied due to a BMI that is too high.