Nurse Practitioner (APRN)

Karen Whittemore was born in Maryland and raised in Salt Lake City.  She moved to Cedar City to go to school at SUU on a theatre scholarship.  She later discovered the nursing program offered through Weber State University’s outreach program and earned her RN associates and bachelors degree and worked as a nurse on the medical/surgical floor at Valley View Medical Center in Cedar City.  In 1998 she earned her master’s degree in the Science of Nursing and became a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner.  She spent 6 years in pediatrics practicing at Valley View Pediatrics and then moved on to family practice in 2006 and has been practicing at the Cedar City Clinic.

She is a singer/songwriter on the side and has recorded 2 CDs and enjoys performing with her band Love Creature.  She also enjoys gardening, cooking, going for walks in the evening with her husband, and yoga.