Dr. Kate Herwig was born and raised in a suburb of Minneapolis, MN with her two younger sisters and her parents. She attended Macalester College in St. Paul where she studied biology, Spanish, and played NCAA basketball. She then spent a year doing research at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center before moving to Philadelphia, PA to attend medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine.

She completed her residency in Pediatrics at MUSC here in Charleston. Dr. Herwig has two children, Dylan and Zoey. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, SCUBA diving, running and cooking.