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About
January 2023 is the month Kurt Peterson, DO joined the Advanced Fertility Care team — the practice that became Pinnacle Fertility’s Arizona network — and the site is specific about where he works: the Glendale and Scottsdale locations. Among this team’s profiles, his is the only one with an exact start date attached.
His credential line needs reading carefully, because it is a different system, not a lesser one. He earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine (Midwestern University), after undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University; his residency ran at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and his reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. He is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AOBOG) and is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists — the FACOOG after his name. That fellowship is a college membership honor; the site does not present it as a second specialty board, and neither does this page, nor is he in the M.D./ABOG certification sequence.
He describes why he picked the specialty in plain terms: reproductive endocrinology and infertility deals in hope, and the journeys are emotionally complex — so he pairs direct, honest information with empathy, keeping patients in charge of the option set. Research-wise he has worked on PCOS, genetics and the natural history of endometriosis, winning the University of Cincinnati’s Chairperson’s Research Award and a Ferring Pharmaceuticals research grant to develop an endometriosis mouse model. The site states he is fluent in English and Spanish; the profile also lists hobbies a patient is unlikely to need — cycling, hiking, dirt biking, skiing, guitar — but the language line is the one that changes what an appointment is like.
Clinical Expertise
His profile lists a wide clinical range in its own words:
- PCOS — both a clinical focus and a research subject
- Endometriosis — again clinical plus research: the mouse-model grant sits behind the clinic interest
- Uterine fibroids and minimally invasive surgery — listed together, pointing at organ-preserving surgical routes
- Social egg freezing and oncofertility preservation — named separately: postponement by choice, and banking before chemo, radiation or surgery
- Third-party fertility treatments — donor eggs, donor sperm and gestational-carrier paths
- Male infertility — listed on his own profile
- LGBTQIA+ family building — named clinical area
- IVF sits under all of this as the core ART tool; his profile publishes no personal cycle volume, success rate, or ICSI/PGT procedure list, and this page will not infer one from clinic-level SART data
Why Choose Dr. Peterson
Spanish consultations, documented. The site says “Fluent in English and Spanish” on his profile — the only second-language statement on any of this team’s five pages. Consent conversations, medication schedules and protocol changes in your own language is not a courtesy; it is safety.
His research topics are his clinic’s daily bread. PCOS and endometriosis are among the most common drivers of fertility treatment, and he has formally studied both — award and grant cited — rather than only treating them.
Newest hire, precisely dated. Patients who want to know how long a physician has been at a clinic get an actual month here: January 2023, at Glendale and Scottsdale.
One page, three paths. Preservation (egg freezing, oncofertility), surgery (fibroids, endometriosis, minimally invasive) and third-party reproduction (donor gametes, carriers, LGBTQIA+ building) all sit in his listed scope — useful when you have not yet decided which road your case takes.
Professional Affiliations
- AOBOG certification (American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology), osteopathic pathway; the site does not itemize which specialties the certification covers, and this page records it as stated — not as a dual M.D.-line certification
- FACOOG — fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Member: ASRM (active since 2016), ACOG, ACOOG, American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
- Awards on the site: Chairperson’s Research Award (University of Cincinnati); Ferring Pharmaceuticals research grant
- Locations: Scottsdale and Glendale named in the practice bio; his page also lists Chandler and Tucson
- The site publishes no license numbers or certification dates for him
Suitable For
- PCOS patients heading into stimulated cycles, where ovulation disorders and metabolic context need one physician holding both
- Endometriosis and fibroid cases weighing minimally invasive surgery before or alongside ART
- Egg freezing by choice, or banking before cancer therapy — both named on his profile
- Families built with donor eggs, donor sperm or a gestational carrier, where third-party experience and a documented interest in the non-clinical puzzle matter
- LGBTQIA+ patients and couples planning gamete sources and pregnancy paths with a physician who lists family building for them as a specialty
- Spanish-speaking patients and partners who want informed consent discussed without an interpreter in the room