Karen Nern, MD, FAAD, MBA is a board-certified dermatologist and Mohs micrographic surgeon based in Colorado. She received her medical degree from UC Davis School of Medicine and completed her dermatology residency at UC San Diego.  She holds an MBA from San Diego State University and is a Visiting Scientist at Lubbock Christian University.

Dr. Nern founded and grew a five-location dermatology practice, now Epiphany Dermatology, before turning her focus toward mission-driven work in skin cancer prevention and education. She is Co-Founder and Medical Director of The Sun Bus, a charitable mobile screening initiative that has provided free skin cancer screenings to more than 10,000 participants across 14 states since 2019.

She is also Founder and CEO of ODD SPOT a newly developed, comprehensive patient-facing skin cancer detection framework covering melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Nern is passionate about making skin cancer education accessible and actionable for patients and clinicians alike.