Dr. Karen L. Herbst, MD, PhD graduated from the University of Iowa with a PhD in Cell Physiology and went on to complete a Howard Hughes Fellowship with Robert Weiss, PhD and Ray Gesteland, PhD at the University of Utah. She went on to graduate from Rush Medical College and did her residency and chief residency at the University of Washington. Dr. Herbst went on to complete a combined research and clinical fellowship in Endocrinology at the University of Washington and is board-certified in endocrinology. She has held faculty positions at Martin Luther King Drew Medical Center/UCLA, the VA San Diego Health Care System/UCSD, and the University of Arizona.
In 2019 Dr. Herbst headed up a NIH-sponsored conference to establish the standard of care for lipedema and in 2020 she presented new ICD-10 codes for lipedema and Dercum’s Disease to the CDC. She continues her passion for helping people with connective tissue disorders.
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Saturday 2:00pm – 2:40pm, Pacific Ballroom
Lipedema is the disproportionate increase of subcutaneous adipose tissue of the lower abdomen and limbs primarily in women. Women with lipedema have a pear versus an apple shape and do not have the same metabolic disease as women with obesity of the abdomen. There are now many proven differences in lipedema tissue compared to tissue from people living with obesity. Dietary and bariatric surgery studies show that lipedema tissue is resistant to usual measures of weight loss, therefore knowing that you have lipedema is important before undertaking weight loss measures. After this talk, you will be familiar with lipedema and how it is different than non-lipedema obesity. Lipedema is oftentimes confused with other diseases of fat tissue, so this talk will cover some of these diseases as well.
