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Karen Bauer, DNP

Nurse Practitioner
Emory Heart & Vascular
Vascular Surgery

Karen Bauer, DNP, CNP-FNP, CWS is a Wound Certified and Vascular Surgery Nurse Practitioner. She graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Toledo, an M.S. from The Ohio State University and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from The University of Toledo.



Karen recently joined Emory Healthcare as the Limb Preservation Program Coordinator, where she aims to help design and implement wound-focused amputation reduction initiatives. She joined Emory from the University of Toledo, where she served as the Director of Wound Services and Lead Vascular Surgery Advanced Practice Provider (APP) in the Division of Vascular, Endovascular, and Wound Surgery. She was pivotal in the design and development of the Fulton County Wound & Hyperbaric Center, where she served as Program Director for over 10 years. Karen also lead the coordination of a wound-focused and multi-locational limb salvage service during this time, developing and linking ambulatory wound centers, post-acute care centers, and smaller hospitals to a tertiary academic center.



Karen is the Immediate Past-President of the Society for Vascular Nursing and a long-time Board Member and Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC). Karen participates on the American Heart Association’s Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) National Action Plan Steering Committee, is the Co-Chair of the AAWC Education Steering Committee, sits on the American Venous Forum’s APP Conference Planning Committee, and works closely with many other national organizations aimed at the care of patients with hard to heal wounds and PAD. She is a Co-Chair of the Point of Care Imaging Task Force with the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders. She is also a published writer and reviewer for many academic journals, lectures regionally, nationally, and internationally, and is a published writer.



In her free time, she loves to hang out with her daughter, travel, play with her dog, exercise, and eat!

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