Does Counting My Steps Matter?

Cathy Funk, MD grew up on a dairy farm in Jefferson County, WV with a love for 4-H and WVU. She is a graduate from WVU School of Medicine and is board certified in Internal Medicine. She has practiced in the eastern panhandle for 22 years.

Governor Earl Ray Tomblin appointed Cathy to the Board of Medicine in May 2011. Dr. Funk resides with her husband and two daughters in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia where she was raised. Dr. Funk graduated from West Virginia University in 1994 as a University Honors Scholar, and received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1998 from West Virginia University School of Medicine. In 1998, she received the WV Rural Health Science Student of the Year award. Her Internal Medicine Residency was at the Charleston Division of West Virginia University School of Medicine, and she was Chief Resident of Internal Medicine from July 2001 through June 2002. She was licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia in 1999, certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 2002, and became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2010. Dr. Funk practices medicine at Internal Medicine of West Virginia, a hospital and outpatient internal medicine practice in Martinsburg, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Eastern Division of WVU School of Medicine. She won the 2010 Clinician of the Year Award from the Eastern Division of WVU School of Medicine.

Dr. Funk won the President’s Young Alumnus Award in 1998 from the WVU School of Medicine Alumni Association and went on to accept the Presidency of the Alumni Association in 2010 and Chair of the WVU School of Medicine Alumni Executive Council in 2011. Dr. Funk is actively involved in the American College of Physicians, West Virginia State Medical Society, and the Eastern Panhandle Medical Society.

Dr. Funk finds time to be involved in community activities, participating in her children’s school and their extracurricular activities, is volunteer chair for the medical stations of the “Freedom’s Run Marathon” of which her husband is a founding organizer, and she established the ongoing WVUH-East Pediatric Foundation “Kaleidoscopes for Kids” in 2009.