Dr. Will Kurtz

Dr. William (Will) Kurtz specializes in direct anteroior hip replacement and custom and robotic knee replacement surgeries at Tennessee Orthopedic Alliance (TOA).

Dr. Kurtz decided to become a joint replacement surgeon at age 16, which led him to obtain a mechanical engineering degree from Rice University. He did his medical school training at Univ. of Texas Southwestern and his orthopedic training at Vanderbilt. In 2005, he and his wife (Emily) moved to Boston for the AuFranc joint replacement fellowship at New England Baptist Hospital. Upon their return to Nashville in 2006, Dr. Kurtz joined TOA, where he has always specialized in hip and knee replacements.

Dr. Kurtz does about ~450 joint replacements a year, equally split between hip and knee replacements. He does about 85% primary joint replacements and 15% revision joint replacements. He specializes in custom and robotic knee replacements and anterior hip replacements. More than half of his surgical patients go home on the day of surgery.

Dr. Kurtz serves on the TOA Board and the Orthoforum Board and is the president of the Orthoforum Value Network, which represents ~5000 orthopedic surgeons nationwide and strives to deliver quality orthopedic care at an affordable price by removing some of the unnecessary middlemen.

He sees patients at TOA's

• One City office

• Hendersonville office

• Brentwood office

• Lebanon office

• Mount Juliet office

Dr. Kurtz performs surgeries at:

• St. Thomas Midtown Hospital

• Hospital for Specialty Surgery

• Baptist Ambulatory Surgery Center

• Centennial Hospital

• Northridge Surgery Center

Dr. Kurtz and TOA take almost every insurance plan except United’s Medicare Advantage plan.

Dr. Kurtz is very active in orthopedic implant development and research. He has helped design 3 custom knee replacement systems and two custom hip replacement systems. Dr. Kurtz is on the Surgical Advisor Board for Restor3D (formerly Conformis). He has published many articles in orthopedic journals.

He started the Nashville chapter of Operation Walk in 2017 with the help of the Faith Family Medical Clinic and St. Thomas Midtown Hospital. He performs approximately 6-7 free hip and knee replacement surgeries every January (except 2020 because of Covid) for uninsured Nashvillians in need.