Karen Koffler, M.D.
Medical Director
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
University of Miami, FL
Dr. Karen Koffler works with patients on a consultative and longitudinal basis to provide integrative care. She received her medical degree at the University of Miami and completed her training in internal medicine in Chicago and at the University of Colorado. She began her career as an emergency room physician in a variety of settings and helped to develop the first hospitalist program for Kaiser Permanente in Denver.
Dr. Koffler was accepted into the first class of physicians trained by Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona. After a 2-year fellowship focused on expanding her conventional training to include nutrition, herbs, vitamins, and supplements, mind-body therapies, spirituality, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and other alternative approaches to healing, she was recruited to Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Chicago to design and run an Integrative Medical Clinic. In her 7-year tenure there, she proved to be a resource to the community through her influence on pharmacies in carrying supplements, educational programs, and research. In 2006, she joined Canyon Ranch to spearhead their new Health and Wellness Department at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach. As the director, she saw how effective lifestyle changes were in addressing common diseases and in creating well-being. She oversaw a staff of multiple integrative clinicians who worked together to optimize an individual’s health.
She is one of a small group of physicians in the country certified in functional medicine, boarded in integrative medicine, and on the teaching staff of the Institute for Functional Medicine.