Dr. Emily G. Kurtz, MD

About Dr. Kurtz

Dr. Emily Kurtz has served as Medical Director for Vanderbilt Executive Wellness and Concierge Medicine since the program's inception in 2018. She attended undergraduate school at Wake Forest University and earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 2000. She trained in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine at Vanderbilt, earning a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation along the way, and completed postdoctoral research in preventive cardiology and cardiovascular imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital as part of Harvard Medical School's Scholars in Clinical Science Program. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both internal medicine (2003) and cardiovascular medicine (2007).

She previously directed Preventive Cardiology for the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute from 2007 to 2016 and held the faculty rank of Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt. Her clinical interests include cardiovascular disease prevention, preventive wellness and noninvasive imaging.