Karen Konarski-Hart is a Chiropractic Physician in private practice in Little Rock, AR, for over 40 years. She is an EMT and holds a Master’s degree in Disaster Preparedness/Emergency Management.
She has served on the AR state board of health (the only DC to serve as its president), has served as Councilor and site team member on the Council on Chiropractic Education, president of the Arkansas Chiropractic Association, and as delegate and eventually Vice President of the American Chiropractic Association. She is retired from AR1-DMAT (federal disaster medical assistance team) and as the leader of the Pulaski County Medical Reserve Corps.
She now serves on the ACA’s Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion as an advocate for the aging and disabled populations and sits on the Advisory Council for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and its longevity advisory committee. Dr Konarski-Hart has been a member of the NCMIC Speakers Bureau since 2003, speaking on topics such as emergency response, disaster preparedness, stress/loneliness, professional boundaries, and geriatrics with emphasis on the perspective and involvement of chiropractic physicians individually and as a profession. She has also adapted a number of her professional presentations for layperson community organizations, and she has written for and has been featured in many national, state, and local publications.
She is in the process of developing a Fellowship in Chiropractic Geriatrics.
Dr Konarski-Hart has received several awards, including:
- Chiropractor of the Year, Humanitarian of the Year, Delegate of the Year, and the President’s Award from the American Chiropractic Association
- Chiropractor of the Year, the Gayle Carpenter Memorial Award, President’s Citation and Service Award from the Arkansas Chiropractic Association
- Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Program Intern Award and Program Scholar Award from Arkansas State University’s DPEM Master’s program.