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- VISION 2.0 Co-director 2016 - 2017
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- 505-272-4979 Office Administrator, Melissa Gallegos
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Armitage, Karen Faculty Member
Positions
- President, New Mexico Pediatric Society (NMPS)
- Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Health Policy, MD/MPH Dual Degree Program and Preventive Medicine MPH Program, College of Population Health 2019 - 2020
- Secondary Appointment, Department of Family and Community Medicine , School of Medicine 2017 - 2020
- Interim Dean, College of Population Health 2017 - 2019
- Course director, Comprehensive Ambulatory Care, UNM School of Medicine 2016 - 2017
- Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine , School of Medicine 2012 - 2017
- 2014-2015 RWJF Health Policy Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) 2014 - 2015
- Director, Vision 2020, UNM HSC Office for Community Health, 2012 - 2015
- Chief Medical Officer, New Mexico Department of Heatlh 2007 - 2010
- Region 2 Health Officer, New Mexico Department of Heatlh 1992 - 2007
Karen Armitage is now volunteer faculty at the UNM College of Population Health. She served as Director of Health Policy and Director and Advisor of the MD/MPH Dual Degree and Preventive Medicine Residency MPH Program at University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Population Health (COPH), with a secondary appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UNM School of Medicine until 12/31/2023. She is a pediatrician and public health physician with two decades of service in the public health sector, finishing up as Chief Medical Officer for the New Mexico Department of Health in 2007-2010. As health policy director for the newest college at UNM, Armitage envisions two core roles for COPH: to train the future population health workforce and to advance population health science. The question that launched the concept of population health over 20 years ago,
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- American Medical Association Member 2018 - 2020
- New Mexico Public Health Association Member 2017 - 2020
- New Mexico Medical Society Santa Fe County Representative 2015 - 2020
- American Academy of Pediatrics New Mexico Chapter, Member at Large, Legislative Advocacy Committee Co-chair 1984 - 2020
clinical activities
- Attending physician, Legislative Action and Public Health rotation, Northern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Founder and Attending Physician 2000 - 2020