Karen is a medical graduate of the University of Queensland and completed her advanced Cardiology training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. She pursued subspecialty Cardiac Electrophysiology training with a Fellowship at the Austin Hospital, in Melbourne in 2005. Karen returned to Heart Care Partners in 2008 after gathering further expertise in the field of Cardiac Electrophysiology at The Cleveland Clinic, USA. She performs a broad range of electrophysiology procedures and cardiac device implantation, with a particular expertise in Catheter Ablation Therapy for atrial fibrillation.

Karen consults and performs procedures at Greenslopes Private Hospital and visits Cleveland fortnightly and Emerald monthly.