About Kirk Brownell

Job title: Physician
Degrees: MD ’95 (Seattle WWAMI)
Career stage: Late-career
State of practice: Burlington, WA
Current practice settings: Academic medicine / teaching hospital, Community hospital / clinic
Lived career experiences/transitions:
- Changing specialty
- Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
- Work/Life balance
Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 1995
Residency: UW-Valley Medical Center, Renton
Specialty/subspecialty: Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Urgent Care
Teaching roles: Preceptor, PNWU-med students, Skagit Regional health IM and FM residents
Research or other professional interests: Addiction Medicine
Kirk’s Bio:
My wife and I are the parents of eight children. We serve in the community and at church. We have lived in the same community for the past 28 years. I am a runner and rock climber.
