Kelly Soares, PA-C

About

Every new physician assistant Pinnacle Fertility hires in the network is trained by a program Kelly Soares, PA-C built. The site credits her with developing and implementing Pinnacle’s PA training program and names her the lead clinician for training and supervising newly hired PAs nationwide — and calls her the most experienced physician assistant in Pinnacle’s Arizona group.

Say the job title plainly: Soares is a Physician Assistant, not a physician. Her profile carries the PA-C suffix and the title “Physician Assistant”; she is not a reproductive endocrinologist and this page does not present her as one. The site publishes no board certification, license number or certifying body for her — the PA-C designation itself is all the credential detail her page gives — and no awards field appears on it.

Her background is dual-trained in a way that directly touches fertility care. Nearly a decade as a physician assistant sits alongside close to 20 years as a diagnostic medical sonographer; she holds a Master of Physician Assistant Studies from UC Davis School of Medicine, a business administration bachelor’s from the College of St. Scholastica, and an associate degree in diagnostic medical sonography from St. Cloud Technical College (no years published). Fertility treatment runs on ultrasound — follicle counts, lining checks — and a clinician who spent two decades reading images before becoming a PA is an unusual overlap on a fertility team. The site also states she personally navigated fertility obstacles, which it ties to her focus on the emotional side of treatment.

Outside the clinic, per her profile: a lieutenant’s commission in the U.S. Air Force Reserve at Luke Air Force Base, a husband and two daughters, and a recent appearance on the game show Wheel of Fortune that won her family a trip to Barbados. She sees patients in Glendale, Scottsdale and Chandler.

Clinical Expertise

• Ultrasound imaging and monitoring — the one capability on her page with explicit years attached: close to two decades as a diagnostic medical sonographer plus a sonography degree, paired with the site’s statement that she combines advanced clinical knowledge with extensive imaging expertise
• Cycle follow-up and patient education — the site describes her approach as collaborative, thorough and deeply patient-centered, pairing clinical expertise with clear communication and education
• PA training and process standardization — an institutional role, not a patient-facing procedure: she wrote the program and supervises new PAs network-wide, which is why the way care gets explained in Arizona offices follows one template

What is not documented: her page lists no personal procedure menu. Whether and which of egg retrieval, IUI or embryo-transfer support tasks she performs under physician supervision is not published, and this page adds nothing.

Why Choose Kelly Soares

The standard-setter, not just a standard-bearer. Most senior PA in Arizona for this network and the person who designed the training every new PA in it goes through — if you want continuity between how you’re counseled here and how your follow-up is handled, that consistency traces back to her.

Twenty years behind the ultrasound. Monitoring cycles live or die on image interpretation. Few advanced-practice providers in fertility can point to nearly two decades as the sonographer before adding the PA role.

Patient as the unit. The site’s own words: collaborative, thorough, deeply patient-centered — reinforced by her personal history with fertility treatment. Patients who feel processed rather than heard have a reason to book with her specifically.

Professional Affiliations

• Physician Assistant (PA-C) per the network site; no board certification, license number or certifying organization is disclosed on her profile, and none is assumed here
• No society memberships are listed on her page (this page leaves the field empty rather than filling it)
• Roles recorded by the site: Pinnacle’s most experienced PA in Arizona; developer and lead of the network-wide PA training and supervision program
• Practice locations: Glendale, Scottsdale and Chandler, Arizona
• Non-clinical: Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force Reserve, Luke Air Force Base — service, not a professional credential

Suitable For

• Monitoring-dense cycles — repeated follicle-tracking scans and lining checks, where her imaging decade is the difference worth naming
• Patients starting their first stimulated cycle who want the plan, the injections and the timeline explained before anything begins
• Anyone carrying the emotional weight of treatment — the site ties her patient-centered approach partly to her own experience navigating fertility obstacles
• Patients who prefer a female clinician for monitoring visits and follow-up calls
• Scottsdale, Glendale or Chandler scheduling — she rotates across all three Arizona offices