I have always loved the very personal connection I make with my patients as a primary care physician. I view my interactions to be conversations, and often share my own healthcare successes and experiences with my patients. I feel that when you really know someone you can help them in a far more meaningful way. In an era when healthcare is segmented into brief interactions by multiple “providers”, the MDVIP model allows me to continue having productive long-term relationships to help my patients help themselves. I always prefer to use medication as a last resort and look at lifestyle alternatives first. The preventive focus of MDVIP gives me the tools to continue to guide and encourage patients towards a healthier lifestyle. Similar to conveniences often associated with concierge medicine practices, I also offer same- or next-day appointments that start on time.
As a long-time New Jersey resident, I have seen the changes to healthcare and want to be a part of the solution. I think that for many people, personalized healthcare is that solution. While the main focus of my practice is prevention, as an internal medicine physician I often treat a wide variety of chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac disease, as well as digestive disease, COPD and women’s health issues in menopause. As a physician on staff at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center and a volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical school, I work with many specialists located in the Princeton, Cranbury, West Windsor, Plainsboro, East Windsor and Monroe Township areas. By allowing me to focus on quality instead of quantity interactions with patients, MDVIP allows me to blend “old fashioned medicine” with new technologies, bringing a new level of care to patients. The motto we chose when we opened our practice in 2004 was “Medicine, the way it should be.” I truly believe that MDVIP is exactly that.
