Dr. Karen (Kate) T. Isselbacher received her AB degree with honors from Harvard College in 1981 and her MD from Boston University School of Medicine in 1985. She completed her medical internship and residency in 1989 at Mount Auburn Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital in Cambridge, MA. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
She practiced primary care medicine and was on the active medical staff at Mount Auburn from 1991 until 2001, when she joined the department of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. At the Brigham, she provided primary care through 2006 in a busy affiliated group practice located in Newton Corner. She took sabbatical leave in 2007.
Dr. Isselbacher has been a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty since 1991, where she has enjoyed mentoring students and resident doctors. She has a special interest in woman’s health, but enthusiastically cares for both men and women.
Medicine runs in her family. Dr. Isselbacher is the daughter, sibling and wife of physicians and now the mother of a Cornell medical student. She develops a strong connection with patients, many of whom speak of the comfort, security and trust that they derive from her care.
Dr. Isselbacher is pleased that her passion for and satisfaction from providing excellent medical care continue to grow after 20 years of practice. In 2008 she enthusiastically joined Dr. Kanner as his associate in Orchard Health Care, a membership practice dedicated to personalized primary care medicine and which offers each individual excellent preventive care and education as well as illness interventions.
Orchard Health Care physicians hold staff affiliations with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Needham, and Newton-Wellesley Hospital, but regularly refer patients as needed or requested to the excellent physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and other superb Boston health-care institutions.
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