Doctor duo reaches three decades in Dana Point

Even before Dana Point was a city, Richard Kempert and Larry Snyder were tending to patients at a small office on Golden Lantern near Pacific Coast Highway.

Kempert, an Ohio native, and Snyder, a Texan, met in 1980 at UC Irvine, where Snyder was starting his three-year post-doctoral training in family medicine. Kempert, having just completed the same program, was a first-year faculty member in the university’s family-medicine department.

Three years later, the doctors again found themselves in the same place – this time in Dana Point.