I spent the first decade of my medical career treating people at their sickest.
I trained in Emergency Medicine at busy, high-acuity hospitals, caring for patients through their most critical and vulnerable moments.
It was extraordinary training and a real privilege. It also gave me a front-row seat to something that would change the direction of my career: many of the devastating complications we treated were consequences of chronic disease and modifiable risk factors that had been developing for years.
Over time, I found myself asking the question that eventually led me to create Elevrae Health:
What if we could do more before people reached that point?
Training shaped how I practice medicine.
Experience changed how I think about health.
I earned my medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in 2015 and completed my Emergency Medicine residency at Cooper University Hospital, where I served as Chief Resident, graduating in 2018.
Training at Level I trauma centers in Philadelphia and Camden meant caring for critically ill and injured patients in complex, high-acuity environments. It taught me to think broadly, make thoughtful decisions with limited time, and care for the person in front of me—regardless of their circumstances.
After residency, I practiced Emergency Medicine in Massachusetts—first at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, then at Falmouth Hospital on Cape Cod. Across these communities, I saw the same pattern again and again: high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and substance use—conditions and risk factors that can build quietly over years and contribute to serious complications such as heart attacks and strokes.
Emergency Medicine taught me how to care for people when something had already gone wrong. It also made me increasingly interested in how I could help sooner—by identifying risk earlier, supporting meaningful lifestyle change, and preventing or improving chronic disease before it led to emergency care.
The shift toward prevention and lifestyle medicine
In 2021, while continuing to practice Emergency Medicine, I began working at EHE Health, a national preventive healthcare organization focused on comprehensive health assessments, early identification of risk, and lifestyle-based care. For the first time in my career as an attending physician, I had the time to meet with patients before they were acutely ill—to understand their health history, identify risks, discuss their goals, and help them make changes that could influence their health for years to come.
That experience led me to pursue additional training in lifestyle medicine. In 2023, I became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine, expanding my clinical approach to incorporate the evidence-based role of nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoidance of risky substances in preventing and treating chronic disease.
In 2026, I became a Blue Zones Certified Physician, further exploring how our environments, communities, and daily patterns can shape health and longevity.
The more I learned, the more convinced I became that healthcare could—and should—do more than respond to disease after it develops.
I built the kind of healthcare
I believe should exist.
Elevrae Health grew from a simple idea: better health requires more than treating problems as they arise.
It requires time to understand the whole picture. Objective information to assess where you are today. Thoughtful prevention to identify risks before they become disease. And a plan that considers not only your medical history, but the way you live, move, eat, sleep, manage stress, and connect with others.
I created Elevrae to bring those pieces together—to combine the rigor of medicine with the principles of prevention and lifestyle medicine in a model that gives patients and physicians the time to turn information into meaningful, individualized care.
The goal isn’t perfection, and it isn’t to prevent every future health problem. It is to understand what we can influence, make thoughtful decisions, and build health intentionally over time.