Karen Lutfey Spencer

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Over the past 25+ years I have worked in university and research-based organizations, studying healthcare and health disparities across a ranges of conditions such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, schizophrenia, and end-of-life care. I am the author of Your Good Death: Why End-of-Life Healthcare is so Difficult and How to Make it Work for You, available for pre-order and publishing on September 1, 2026.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver

Education

  • 2000 
    Indiana University Bloomington, Sociology

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