Dr. Karen Kan MD

Karen Kan MD is the bestselling author of the book Guide to Healing Chronic Pain. In her practice, she integrates the Body-Mind-Spirit approach to healing.

Dr. Kan graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Ottawa School of Medicine, Canada, and became board certified in Family Medicine in both Canada and the USA. At the University of Ottawa, she experienced month-long intensives in acupuncture and clinical hypnosis during her residency training.

She has worked for several medically under-served communities in New York and California and has also been an Associate Professor at the Santa Monica-UCLA Family Residency Program teaching medical students and residents.  While at UCLA, she was co-chair of the Evidence-based Medicine curriculum.

Her formal acupuncture training was completed with the UCLA Medical Acupuncture for Physicians in 2000.  She has won “Best Acupuncturist” in the Best of the Mountains Readers’ Choice contest multiple years in a row.

She currently resides in Lake Placid, NY, and enjoys figure skating and ice dancing.