Karen O'Brien, MSN
Karen O'Brien, MSN
Karen O'Brien is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Gastroenterology and Nutrition department at MUSC. She earned her master's degree in nursing in pediatric acute and chronic care from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1993. She is board certified as a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Karen has many years of experience working as a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner and now specializes in pediatric gastroenterology. She is a member of the Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Nurses. Karen takes care of patients with general gastrointestinal disorders including; celiac disease, failure to thrive, functional gastrointestinal disorders, constipation, encopresis, gastroesophageal reflux, eosinophilic esophagitis, and childhood obesity. She has a particular interest in pediatric nutrition.
Insurances Accepted
- Absolute Total Care (NEIC)
- Absolute Total Care Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
- Aetna (PPO)
- AllWell by Absolute Total Care
- Ambetter from Absolute Total Care (Marketplace)
- BCBS Blue Essentials (Marketplace)
- Blue Choice Blue Option (Exchange Plan)
- Blue Choice Medicaid
- Blue Choice MyChoice (Available as individual commercial product)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice HealthCare (Group Health Plan)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal (FEP)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Planned Administrators
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Blue (PPC)