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About
Kate Odenwald’s first years in nursing were spent in hospital operating rooms working with general surgeons, and she joined CCRM in 2026 as an adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner, a specialty built around patients with medical complexity rather than routine wellness care. That is an unusual pairing on a fertility floor, where most clinicians come up through obstetrics and gynecology. Behind both sits 13 years of reproductive health experience before the Colorado move.
She is board certified (ACNP-BC), trained at Baylor University for her nursing degree and at Texas Tech University for her master’s in acute care nursing. As an advanced practice provider she works with the practice’s reproductive endocrinologists: the physician sets the diagnosis and the protocol, and she carries the visits in between — monitoring appointments, IUI procedures, endometrial biopsies, the risk-factor assessment and physical examination that precede an IVF cycle, and fertility preservation consultations.
Her role also reaches past the Denver suburbs. CCRM lists her coverage as extending to northern Colorado and Wyoming, where the nearest reproductive endocrinologist can be hours away. The clinic offers telehealth appointments in Colorado, which is how an out-of-area patient completes an initial consultation without driving to RidgeGate first.
Clinical Expertise
- IVF cycle visits: monitoring coordination, medication review and the exam work that surrounds a stimulation cycle
- Intrauterine insemination: performs IUI as part of the practice’s treatment schedule
- Endometrial biopsy: lining sampling ordered during a fertility evaluation
- Fertility preservation consultation: teaching visits for patients banking eggs or embryos before gonadotoxic treatment
- Risk-factor assessment and IVF physicals: the medical history screen that flags conditions an anesthesiologist or physician needs to see first
- Acute care background: adult-gerontology acute care training and OR years with surgeons, applied to patients whose fertility care intersects with other medical problems
Why Choose Kate Odenwald
An acute-care credential, not a gynecology one. ACNP training covers physiologically complex patients — relevant when a fertility chart also carries a medical diagnosis.
Thirteen years in reproductive health before CCRM. Long floor experience in the same service line, arriving at Lone Tree in 2026.
Access for out-of-metro patients. Explicit coverage for northern Colorado and Wyoming, where fertility care means long drives without a nurse practitioner in the middle.
Surgical-adjacent experience. Early OR work with general surgeons translates into comfort around sterile procedure, sedation recovery and post-operative questions.
Professional Affiliations
Board-certified Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP-BC), licensed in Colorado. Education: Baylor University (BSN); Texas Tech University (MSN, adult-gerontology acute care). Practices within CCRM Fertility of Lone Tree, a SART-member Colorado practice with a CLIA-certified laboratory.
Suitable For
- Patients in monitored IUI or IVF cycles who want their routine visits consolidated with one clinician
- Rural Colorado and Wyoming patients managing travel and appointment density
- Fertility preservation consults before cancer treatment or surgery
- Intake examinations and biopsy as part of a completed workup
- Patients with other active medical problems alongside infertility, where acute-care training helps