Karen L. Herbst, MD, PhD

Herbst graduated from the University of Iowa with a PhD in cell physiology and went on to complete a Howard Hughes Fellowship at the University of Utah. She then graduated with a medical degree from Rush Medical College and did her residency and chief residency at the University of Washington. Herbst completed a combined research and clinical fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Washington and is board-certified an endocrinologist. She has held faculty positions at Martin Luther King Drew Medical Center/UCLA, the VA San Diego Health Care System/UCSD, and the University of Arizona. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award from Tucson Business in 2019 and was named one of America’s top physicians. Her recent paper titled Survey Outcomes of Lipedema Reduction Surgery in the United States won the 2022 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery–Global Open Best Paper Award.