Pamela Kushner

Clinical Professor University of California at Irvine
Irvine, California

Dr. Kushner is a board certified family physician with a private practice in Long Beach, California for over twenty years. Her practice specializes in preventive medical care for the entire patient. Dr. Kushner is the past Alternate Delegate to the AAFP from the State of California. She was the first woman president of the Long Beach Medical Association. Dr. Kushner has received awards from Soroptimist International as woman of the year and the Clean Spokesperson award from the American Lung Association. Dr. Kushner is a past member of the California Tobacco Free Scientific Advisory Committee. She has served as the chairperson for the AAFP Drugs and Devices Committee.

Dr. Kushner is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine for the University of California at Irvine. She is also past faculty for the University of Southern California Physician Assistant Program. As a past California medical board reviewer, Dr. Kushner has helped educate family physicians on the newest medical therapies. Dr. Kushner devotes a significant portion of her time to teaching other doctors and has been a keynote speaker at the American Academy of Family Physicians. She has helped design the curriculums for the Hospice Foundation of America and the Samueli Center in Irvine. Dr. Kushner received both a bachelors and master’s degree from UCLA in Biology. She then went on to receive her MD degree from the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Kushner is a certified lifestyle educator through the FLT program with Metagenics. This unique program teaches patients healthy nutritional habits that they can maintain for life. In addition, Dr. Kushner is trained in complementary medicine that includes supplements and homeopathy when appropriate.

Dr. Kushner is also the immediate past director of the Osteoporosis Diagnostic Center in Los Alamitos, California, a position she had held for twenty years. She is widely published in medical and lay journals including STROKE and Woman’s Medicine.

Dr. Kushner treats every patient as she would a family member. As a board certified family physician she sees her role as helping her patients both physically and emotionally as she guides them through the United States’ complex medical system.

Dr. Kushner is on the staff of Long Beach Memorial.