Paul Kivela, MD

Paul Kivela, MD, MBA, FACEP is an emergency medicine residency trained and board certified emergency physician licensed in California, Texas, and Alabama. Dr. Kivela maintains a private practice dedicated to improving health using evidence based solutions. He believes that the key to wellness is decreasing inflammation and also improving fitness, resilience, mental attitude in the quest to achieve a work-life balance.

Dr. Kivela attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Illinois. He did his emergency medicine residency at the LA County-UCLA after which he completed an administrative fellowship . He graduated from University of Tennessee with his MBA. He was elected and served as President of the American College of Emergency Physicians from 2017-18 and was named Napa County Physician of the Year in 2018.

His research and expert opinions have been published in multiple peer reviewed publications and he has been invited to lectured both nationally and internationally on many different medical topics.