Care that remembers you

Meet your provider

You'll be working with me

Medicine has been part of my life for as long as I can remember.

I was the kid who needed to know how things worked — the human body and technology were both fascinating to me. I learned the body from the patient side early, between illness, injuries, and more than a few trips through the emergency room. Getting sutures was a memorable one. The technology side I figured out by taking apart the family TV remote (sorry, Mom).

One of my strongest memories is my mother going back to nursing school. Her textbooks were spread across the kitchen table, and I'd sit with her while she studied — looking through anatomy diagrams, asking questions about whatever she was learning that week. That interest never went away.

College came later than planned. I spent that time caring for my grandmother through lung cancer, and by the time I got to campus, medicine already felt like the only direction that made sense. I studied Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Florida and planned on medical school. I hope she'd be proud of where it went.

In 2014, while studying for the MCAT, finishing organic chemistry, genetics, and microbiology, and teaching general chemistry students, I developed a bilateral pulmonary embolism — blood clots in both lungs. I was young, otherwise healthy, and suddenly facing something that could have ended my life.

Looking back, nothing about how I was living was sustainable. Sixteen-hour days in the library were normal. I barely moved. I hydrated with coffee. I slept wherever I could. I believed the answer to everything was to push harder and do more — that commitment, hard work, and struggle were supposed to feel like success.

That experience changed how I see both medicine and life. I still wanted to spend my career taking care of people. I was just done postponing my own life to get there. I started keeping a bucket list I actually work through — adding new things, crossing others off, and making a point of not waiting for some better time that may never come.

My path into medicine

I chose the Physician Assistant route deliberately, and completed my medical training at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

What matters most in practicing medicine has never been the letters after a name. It's staying a lifelong learner, recognizing the limits of my own knowledge, and understanding that I don't know what I don't know. That's the standard I hold myself to as a PA.

I've practiced since 2020. Nearly five years of that was internal medicine — mostly patients 65 and older, the medically complex, and people living with disabilities. It was value-based care, which in practice meant the job was keeping people out of the hospital rather than treating them once they were already in one. In early 2025 I expanded into addiction medicine, alongside six years focused on weight management and health optimization.

Weight management is the same work, just earlier — before someone needs the hospital at all.

What I've found is that the medication is rarely the hard part. Access, ease, and staying with one provider long enough for the plan to actually work — that's what moves people toward a health goal.

Why DonoMed

DonoMed is a response to a busy life.

Most people don't have the PTO to spend on a clinic visit, an hour in a lobby, and fifteen minutes with a provider they've never met — who may not even be at that practice the next time they go. I wanted to make medicine easy, simple, and actually reachable.

Time is the one thing none of us can earn more of, and it's the thing healthcare spends most freely. That bothers me.

There's a continuity piece too. After working across a lot of settings, I saw how often the person writing a prescription had never met the patient and would never see them again — their history pieced together by whoever happened to be on shift that day. I built DonoMed the other way. One provider knows your full picture and is accountable for it.

Why the name

First and foremost, it's my last name — and I've endured the jokes ("you don't know your name?").

Beyond that: years ago I became a fan of a show called Royal Pains, about a physician who built a small practice around knowing his patients, being reachable when they needed him, and having enough time to actually explain their care. The practice was called HankMed.

The name stuck because the idea behind it did: medicine can be personal without being complicated. DonoMed is my version of that, built with technology that widens access instead of adding distance.

How I practice

Great medicine is a collaboration. You tell me what you're trying to accomplish. I'll tell you what's realistic, what the evidence supports, what the risks are, and what I'd recommend. Then we make the decision together.

You'll also see the same provider every time — me. No reintroducing yourself or re-explaining your medical history to a different person at every appointment.

I practice and prescribe ethically. No research chemicals. Nothing marketed with a "not for human consumption" disclaimer and a wink. Everything I prescribe is a prescription medication, written for you individually after a clinical evaluation and dispensed by a U.S. state-licensed pharmacy that tests for potency and sterility.

And if I don't believe a treatment is medically appropriate for you, I'll tell you no — and I'll explain why. You're not charged for hearing no.

• University of South FloridaBiomedical Sciences
• Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolPhysician Assistant, 2020
• NCCPA-certifiedPracticing since 2020
• Florida license PA9113324Verify at the Florida DOH