Dr. Karen Fritchie is currently the Director of the Soft Tissue Service at Cleveland Clinic. She is a graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where she received her MD degree. Dr. Fritchie was an AP/CP resident at the University of North Carolina, and she served as Chief Resident during her fourth year. Subsequently, she completed a Surgical Pathology fellowship at the University of North Carolina followed by a Bone and Soft Tissue Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. In 2011 she joined the faculty at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota where she practiced bone and soft tissue pathology and was the Program Director of the Surgical Pathology Fellowship. She was the recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award in Anatomic Pathology in 2018. Recently, in 2020, she returned to the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Fritchie has an avid interest in teaching and is currently the Program Director of the Bone and Soft tissue pathology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. She has presented numerous lectures and interactive tutorials in bone/soft tissue pathology at institutions and conferences on a national and international level. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology and the International Journal of Surgical Pathology. As a practicing pathologist, she has a special and long-standing interest in lipomatous soft tissue neoplasms.