Dr. Barton W. Butterbaugh, MD

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Get to know Family Physician Dr. Barton W. Butterbaugh, who serves patients in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dr. Butterbaugh is a very versatile physician with over four decades of practice experience spanning surgery, trauma & emergency medicine, family medicine, and medical pain management. 

He is in private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, serves as the General Manager at Sonoran Emergency Associates, P.L.C., and is on staff at La Paz Regional Hospital.

A 1981 graduate of the Creighton University School of Medicine, Dr. Butterbaugh received his post-graduate training at the Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency with subsequent additional training in ear, nose, and throat surgery while on active duty at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. During his last two years of active military duty, he was called upon by the U.S. Army Medical Department to help form a Section of Emergency Medicine within the Department of Primary Care & Community Medicine at a Level I Army Trauma Center.

Upon leaving active military service in 1986, he continued his career as an emergency medicine specialist, actively practicing throughout Arizona, Texas, Southern Nevada, and New Mexico. Throughout his active EM years, he additionally served as an emergency medicine director and emergency department services contractor. 

In 1998, Dr. Butterbaugh retired from active EM practice, to pursue private practice in family medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. He also gives back to his beloved State of Arizona by providing quality medical care to underserved and rural areas of Central Arizona.  

Staying current with the latest advancements in medicine, Dr. Butterbaugh is a Life Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, a Life Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners, and a Certified Forensic Examiner. He is also a Diplomate of both the American Board of Forensic Medicine and the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Family medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is named a family physician.

Dr. Butterbaugh’s family dates back to the time when Arizona was a territory (before 1912). He has a great love and inner connection to the beautiful state of Arizona, and feels it is a blessing to have had the privilege to practice medicine in many different areas of Arizona over his four decades of medical career serving the people of Arizona.  

Aside from his passion for medicine, his avocational interests include spending time with his family, traveling, doing physical fitness and wellness, hiking, training, as well as showing his 4 collies.

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