Karen W. Krigger, MD, MeD, FAAFP, AAHIVM(S)

Dr. Krigger, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, is a specialist in HIV care as certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine in which she currently serves as Co-Chair of nine states in the Southeast Region.

In 1995, she started a medical clinic for HIV positive women and children with acquisition of grant funding, later adding services for men. She served as Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Kentucky from 2005-2012.

She serves as a primary care provider for the Louisville SANE program (Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiners) and facilitated its implementation in residency training at the Newburg site for Family and Geriatric Medicine which is home to her clinical practice.

She has presented numerous professional and community presentations concerning social and medical issues including HIV/AIDS, Internationally, Nationally, and Regionally, to the lay public, residents, medical students and medical colleagues.
She received the 2013 award of Distinguished Professor of Service at the University of Louisville.

Most recently, she facilitated an HIV Garden during HIV Testing Day at Jefferson Square in Downtown Louisville creating 1,000 HIV ribbons for the event through Project Compassion which completed 4,000 ribbons for the Louisville AIDS walk in October, 2013, representing the 4,000 HIV positives to date in Jefferson County from the beginning of the accounting in the mid-1980s.