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Karen A. Williams, DNP, FNP-BC, AQH, FAANP

President and Owner of KDW Health Management LLC
N/a
Pensacola, Florida

Dr. Karen Williams has 40 years’ experience in the health care field and has extensive experience in utilizing an integrative approach to headache management. She currently works with several national organizations to promote headache education and continues to promote auricular therapy as an adjunctive treatment for pain management.
Dr. Williams retired from federal service in April 2023, where she was the Deputy Director for the Headache Center of Excellence (HCoE) at the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Healthcare System facility, Richmond VA, for three years. Prior to this Dr. Williams directed the Headache Clinic at the Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System, Temple TX for six years, after serving five years treating service members and Veterans at the Traumatic Brain Injury Program, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany.
While working at the VA, Dr. Williams was a member of the Office of Nursing Service Pain Committee, serving as a subject matter expert for alternative medicine and the use of acupuncture for pain reduction in the Veteran population. Dr. Williams also served as the co-chair of the National HCoE education committee, coordinating and disseminating educational activities on headache management to Veterans and providers. Dr. Williams was on the work group which updated the VA/DoD clinical practice guidelines: “The Primary Care Management of Headache”, which were released in September 2023.
Dr. Williams completed a 300-hour medical acupuncture program in 2013 and has national certification in auricular acupuncture and certification as a Battlefield Acupuncture Instructor. In addition, Dr. Williams holds the National Headache Foundation Certificate in Added Qualification in Headache Medicine.
Dr. Williams has over 20 years of experience in public speaking in local, national and international venues, on health education and disease prevention programs. She has published multiple articles on concussion care and headache management and continues to encourage and mentor fellow colleagues, in integrative health care for those with headache and chronic pain.

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