Medicine first. Everything else second.
I became a physician because I wanted to understand the body -- really understand it, not just manage it. Anesthesia was the right choice for that. It demands precision, presence, and a deep fluency in how bodies behave under stress. You don't get to guess. You have to know.
After more than two decades, I founded AgeWell Clinics because I kept seeing a gap. My patients were high-functioning, ambitious people -- executives, athletes, driven professionals -- who were being told everything was fine when nothing felt fine. Their labs were technically normal. Their lives were quietly deteriorating. Conventional medicine had no answer for that. I built one.
AgeWell is physician-led, cash-pay, and built entirely around optimizing midlife -- not managing it. Hormones, metabolism, sleep, recovery, sexual health, mindset. The five pillars that actually determine how someone feels and performs in their 40s, 50s, and beyond.
The game I left. And why I came back.
I played Division I golf in college and loved it -- the competition, the mental game, the way a round could humble you and exhilarate you inside the same hour. Then medical school started and golf became a memory. For more than 25 years, I didn't play.
Coming back to it wasn't casual. I came back with intention -- to compete again, to see what my body could do in its 50s with everything I now know that I didn't know at 20. And what I found surprised me. The game is a perfect mirror. Every round reflects exactly what's happening in your body -- your hormones, your recovery, your sleep, your stress response. I had spent 25 years building clinical tools to read exactly those signals. Suddenly I had a new place to use them.
This podcast is that journey. I'm not going to tell you what to do from behind a desk. I'm going to show you what it looks like to do it -- on the course, in the clinic, and in the body I'm optimizing right alongside you.
Single mom. Four kids. Still showing up.
I raised four kids on my own while building a medical career. They're all in their 20s now, launched and thriving. I don't tell you that as a badge -- I tell you because it's part of who I am as a physician. I know what it means to be running on empty and still needing to perform. I know what it means to put everyone else first for years and then realize your own body is trying to tell you something.
My patients aren't just data points. They're people with full lives and real demands who need to function at a high level for a long time. I understand that from the inside. That's the kind of physician I've been built to be.