New faculty spotlight: Kara Markin, M.D.

Kara Markin, M.D., is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Kara Markin, M.D.
• Hometown: Omaha
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine

Research/Professional Interests:

• Women’s health

How I fell in love with medicine:
While working for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in Patagonia, Chile, I decided to teach search and rescue. I returned to Omaha to get the obligatory EMT training, but after that decided to become a paramedic. While training as a paramedic, I always wanted to know what happened to the patients I took to the emergency department. Nearly 10 years later, I’m taking care of them!

Degrees:

• M.D., UNMC
• Residency, internal medicine, UNMC

Three things people may not know about me:

• I directed an environmental nonprofit.
• I was an English major.
• I love NPR’s “Radiolab.”