Dr. Kurtbay is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley Optometry school. He is a board-certified therapeutic optometrist in the treatment of infectious eye diseases and an expert in optical lenses and frames. 
 

Dr. Kurtbay also has Bachelor Degrees in Microbiology, Immunology, and Vision Sciences from U.C Berkeley where he did research projects in corneal eye conditions, cell biology, and developmental neurobiology.
 
He was an active board member of the San Francisco Optometric Society and is a current member of the San Francisco Optometric Society (SFOS), the California Optometric Association (COA), and the American Optometric Association (AOA). Dr. Kurtbay is fluent in Turkish.

Dr. Timur Kurtbay, OD is an optometrist born and raised in San Francisco. Having grown up in his family’s practice, Dr. Kurtbay OD has many years of training in opticianry before becoming an optometrist.

He graduated from San Francisco State with the highest honor of Summa Cum Laude in Biology with a subspecialty of Physiology in 2019. He then worked with Dr. Yunus Kurtbay in the family practice for one year until attending Arizona College of Optometry (AZCOPT) in fall 2020. 

At AZCOPT he received Clinician of the Quarter in his third year of training and has experience at the Community Health Center in Arroyo Grande, Indian Health Services in Arizona, private practice, and many subspecialty clinics at AZCOPT: Corneal, Vision Therapy, Retina, and Dry Eye specialties. He is a current member of the San Francisco Optometric Society (SFOS), the California Optometric Association (COA), and the American Optometric Association (AOA).