Kimberly Kurtz, MPA, PA-C

Kimberly Kurtz is a Bay Area native, growing up in Benicia, California. She was inspired to work in medicine from an early age, having grown up with her brother, who is disabled with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Over the years she accompanied him to his doctor's visits and tried her best to educate her peers on her brother's disease. Kimberly knew that as an adult she would want to help people and educate the public about diseases and the human body.

While in college, Kimberly worked as a research intern in Detroit, MI doing Cancer Research, as well as volunteered hundreds of hours in Southern California hospitals. Kimberly went on to graduate from UC San Diego with a Bachelor's in Human Biology, with Provost's Honors. Knowing family to be very important to her, Kimberly decided not to go to medical school, but to pursue a career as a physician assistant. This way she could have a full family life, while at the same time have a challenging, impactful career. Moving back to the Bay Area, she worked as a back-office medical assistant at a surgical practice in Walnut Creek for 1 year, assisting in small surgical procedures and venous ablation.

She then went on to pursue her Master's Degree at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland in the highly regarding Physician Assistant program. As a physician assistant student, she was immersed in an intense curriculum that is similar to medical school, but more condensed. She then had a full year of clinical rotations, where she spent 5 weeks each in 9 specialty rotations including geriatrics, internal medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN, emergency medicine, general surgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and family medicine. Always knowing she wanted to work in surgery, Kimberly took initiative while at Kaiser Oakland for her 3 surgical rotations, performing first assist and second assist in numerous cases. She graduated with her Master's Physician Assistant in 2010, and is excited to be working with Dr. Mehigan in Vascular Surgery at Washington Hospital.

Kimberly Kurtz, MPA, PA-C is a Nationally Board Certified Physician Assistant, with license to practice in California. As a Certified Physician Assistant (or PA-C), Kimberly can see patients individually, write prescriptions, order labs/scans/therapy, see patients in the hospital, act a first assist in surgery, perform wound debridement, all under the supervision of Dr. Mehigan.

Kimberly lives in Concord close to her family. In her spare time she likes to go for long runs, go to the movies, socialize with friends, travel, and go to the beach.