Dr. Carol Havens is board-certified in family medicine and addiction medicine.  She is currently the director of clinical education, northern California region, Kaiser Permanente, and a staff physician in the Chemical Dependency and Recovery Program at Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento.  She has served as an associate clinical professor in the department of family medicine at the University of California, Davis. 

Dr. Havens earned her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and her medical degree from the University of Arizona.  She completed her family medicine residency at the University of California, Davis Sacramento Medical Center. 

A Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Family Practice, with Added Qualifications in Geriatrics and certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine, Dr. Havens is a member of several professional societies, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She is currently member of the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) Board of Directors, the chair of the California Medical Association’s Committee on CME, and a member of the CME committee for Audio-Digest. She has given numerous presentations on topics including successful smoking interventions, diagnosis and treatment of neuropathic pain, and partnerships to improve CME outcomes. She has been listed in the Best Doctors in America every year since 2005. In 2009 Dr. Havens was selected as the CAFP Foundation’s winner of the Barbara Harris Award for Excellence in Education.