Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, I received my undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University. Following graduation, I coordinated years of clinical cardiology research for the nation’s leading Cleveland Clinic cardiology program under the direct supervision of Chairman Dr. Eric Topol, now the Editor-in-Chief of Medscape. I attended Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine. and completed my family medicine training as the elected chief resident at University Hospitals of Cleveland, one of the nation’s leading family medicine programs. I have been in private practice in Florida since 2002. Realizing the critical needs of the uninsured in my community, my colleagues and I created an affordable solution outside the boundaries of the traditional third-party payer system, which has since come to be known as "Direct Primary Care". In operation since 2010, our pioneering program, Epiphany Health, provides access to affordable healthcare for those who have been neglected by the system for decades, and is rapidly becoming the "Uber" of healthcare delivery through its creative disruption. I serve on the board of trustees of an HCA hospital, the president of my county medical society, as a delegate to the Florida Medical Association, and the president of the Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation. I most recently was appointed by the FMA president to the Council on Health Innovation and Reform. I have a special interest in health care policy at the state and federal levels, and am actively involved at both levels.