{"id":2698,"date":"2017-09-21T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/im\/people\/karen-kimel-scott-md\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:26:29","slug":"karen-kimel-scott-md","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/im\/people\/karen-kimel-scott-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Kimel-Scott, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJuGO91h3sU?html5=1\" title=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\nI am so happy to be back home in North Carolina. I went into primary care to have long term relationships with patients, to treat them as a person not just a disease. My goal in each visit is to have a plan that achieves the patients&#8217; goals of health.<\/p>\n<p>I am a Primary Care doctor working at UNC Internal Medicine at Eastowne. I see primary care patients and supervise residents seeing their own primary care patients. I am passionate about excellence in outpatient care and making sure that all doctors trained at UNC Internal Medicine are knowledgable about primary care. I love being able to teach both my patients about their health and all types of learners about general medicine principles. I have a special passion for Women&#8217;s Health and LGBTQ Health. I strive to take care of my patients holistically and emphasize preventative health. I want to make sure all people are welcome at UNC and provide gender affirming care.<\/p>\n<h3>Awards and Honors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2016 &#8211; General Internal Medicine and Women&#8217;s Health Track Graduate<\/li>\n<li>2017 &#8211; Chief Resident Brown University<\/li>\n<li>2022 &#8211; Craver Teaching Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2586,"menu_order":34,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[64,36,63],"class_list":["post-2698","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-all-faculty-profiles","ud_division-clinical-leadership","ud_division-our-faculty-syndication","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karen Kimel-Scott, MD - Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/im\/people\/karen-kimel-scott-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karen Kimel-Scott, MD - Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am so happy to be back home in North Carolina. 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