About

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Dr. Karen Young, MD, Family Medicine Specialist

Background

Dr. Young is a family physician currently with Hackensack Meridian Health Medical Group – Primary Care, in Perth Amboy, NJ. A New Jersey native, she is an honors graduate of Brown University and is a board-certified physician who completed her family medicine residency at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, upon graduating from the University of Virginia School of Medicine.


Her professional interests include health maintenance, preventive medicine, children's, women's and senior health. She is actively involved in community health and has participated in community -based screenings and educational programs. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Medical Association. Currently, she sits on the Executive Committee for the Union County Medical Society and the Judicial Committee for the Medical Society of New Jersey.


She has been named a NJ Top Doc in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. She was also named one of New Jersey’s Favorite Kids’ Doctors in 2019 and 2020.

Education

University of Virginia School of Medicine, MD - Medicine

Brown University, B.A. - Biomedical Ethics

Skills

Board Certified - Family Medicine Specialist