Family Medicine
Christina Council, MD, MPH
One Medical
Dr. Christina Council is a board-certified family medicine physician at One Medical in North Bethesda, MD. Her training spans pediatric, adult, and geriatric care, so she can look after patients of every age — and she also practices in the urgent-care setting, where she performs a range of in-office minimally invasive procedures. She sees patients in both English and Spanish.
Why patients choose Dr. Council
A core principle of her practice is health education: she works to empower patients with the knowledge to make informed decisions about their physical and mental well-being, building trust through open communication. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the National Medical Association.
Background & focus
Dr. Council earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Health Sciences and completed her family medicine residency at St. Francis Healthcare. She also holds a master’s degree in public health and is passionate about addressing health disparities in underserved communities, including work with a refugee health clinic. Her practice emphasizes preventive and primary care for the whole family.
Profile last fact-checked June 27, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Council compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering urgent care
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name urgent care.
Trained in Saint Kitts and Nevis
1 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record trained in Saint Kitts and Nevis. 24 trained outside the United States altogether.
We list 2 family medicine providers serving North Bethesda.
1 of 19 Spanish-speaking doctors
19 of the 139 providers in our registry (14%) practise in Spanish, across 6 specialties.
3rd most recently qualified of our 13 family medicine providers
Qualified in 2013. The median for the 13 family medicine providers whose year we record is 2009.
Medical school: University of Medicine and Health Sciences — Basseterre, Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Council sits by experience
Dr. Council finished medical school in 2013, 13 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 125 finished earlier, 8 finished later, and 1 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–19941995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–2009Dr. Council2013
2010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 105 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 — Dr. Council | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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