Karen Funk

Karen has been a family physician at Clinica’s Lafayette Clinic since 2004 and took on the role of Assistant Medical Director in 2012. Dr. Funk graduated with distinction from Swarthmore College where she spent a year at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She went on to the University of Chicago where she graduated with honors with a Masters degree in Public Policy. Following graduate school, Dr. Funk served as the Quality Improvement Coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Greater Chicago. Somewhere along the way, someone convinced Karen that she would be a great physician and in 2001 she received her M.D. from the University of Illinois. Like Dr. Wheeler, Dr. Funk was a Albert Schweitzer Fellow. This involved working with a Community Health Center in Chicago providing group based education to teens on obesity prevention, healthy sexuality and pregnancy prevention. With family ties in Colorado and a growing family, Karen completed her residency in Family Medicine at Rose Medical Center.