01/09/2025
Update from Kurow Medical and Mackenzie Health Centre.
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Pnina Strasbourger will be joining our medical team next week on Monday 8 Sept 2025. She will be working in Twizel at our Mackenzie Health Centre for three days per week and at our Kurow Medical Centre for one day per week.
Here is a brief introduction from Dr Pnina:
I was born and raised in a small kibbutz in Israel. This is where I picked up my love of nature, as well as my ideals of strong communities and fair social policies.
After high school, I spent a year volunteering in a town in the south of Israel. Later, I moved to Seattle to pursue my bachelors in Bioengineering at the University of Washington, where I also worked for several years in microbiology and genetics research.
Enjoying the science, but missing the human touch, I decided to change careers into medicine. I attended the University of Washington School of Medicine and then did my family medicine residency at Valley Medical Center in Washington state.
Since graduating from residency, I have worked in various primary care clinics around the Seattle area. I am passionate about nutrition, wellness and people's stories.
I am excited to start a new chapter and to be practising medicine in New Zealand. This is my second time here. I first visited New Zealand on vacation back in 2003 and I fell in love with this country and its people. I am happy to be joining MacKenzie Health Centre and to experience beautiful Twizel with my husband and four children.
Outside of medicine, I enjoy spending time with friends and family, laughing, traveling and learning about different customs and cultures, hiking, snowshoeing, skiing, camping, and playing board games.
Dr Pnina Strasbourger
If you would like to make an appointment with Dr Pnina please call reception on 03 436 0760 for Kurow or 03 687 3530 for Twizel.
Yours in health
Juliet and Tim Gardner
