About

My Background

I’m a board-certified neurologist licensed in DC, MD, VA, TX, and WA. I completed my training in internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern in Austin, followed by a neurology residency at the Dell Medical School at UT Austin. I then spent three years as a fellow at the National Institutes of Health, working in the Neuroimmunology Clinic within the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. My experience also includes providing care at the Veterans Administration in Washington, DC.

Today, I work full-time as a federal regulator, and leverage my clinical and research experience to help others take charge of their neurological health. My journey in medicine gave me a comprehensive framework for understanding human disease. Now, I’m bringing a "Medicine 3.0" approach to my practice, using the highest-quality evidence to focus on preventive neurology—empowering patients to reduce their risk of chronic disease and lead healthier lives.

Rethinking Disease: Immediate vs. Evolving Conditions

Medical issues often fall into two broad categories:

  1. You Have It or You Don’t: Conditions like genetic disorders (e.g., sickle cell anemia), infections (e.g., HIV), and acute injuries (e.g., fractures) fall into this group. You either have the defining factor—like a specific gene or virus—or you don’t. These conditions are often identifiable and diagnosable with clear-cut tests.


  2. Conditions that Develop Over Time: This group includes metabolic syndrome, diabetes, frailty, dementia, cancer, and heart disease. Unlike the first category, these conditions evolve slowly, often over years, and are influenced by lifestyle factors and environmental exposures. You don’t just “wake up” with these conditions; they are the culmination of ongoing processes that begin well before any diagnosis.

Our healthcare system excels at identifying and treating “have it or don’t” diseases. However, when it comes to the slow-developing, lifestyle-influenced conditions, we often treat them too late, at an advanced stage when symptoms are undeniable and irreversible damage may have occurred.

My Approach to Precision Prevention Care

In my practice, I focus on the proactive prevention of slow-developing, chronic diseases. Unfortunately, the traditional healthcare approach tends to set strict cutoffs for the stages of these diseases without actively intervening to delay or prevent progression. By treating slow-developing diseases as if they are “have it or don’t” conditions, we lose valuable time—often years or decades—where early, personalized interventions could make a significant difference.

I believe in the power of precision prevention. We’re in a transformative era of medicine where it’s possible to use personalized assessments and evidence-based strategies not only to manage but to preemptively reduce the risk of chronic diseases. I provide precision prevention care that complements your primary care by evaluating your metabolic and cognitive health. From there, we create specific lifestyle and therapeutic strategies to minimize your risk for debilitating chronic conditions like dementia and stroke.

Learn more about the services I provide here.

Our Tools

We will work together to characterize your metabolic health, using biomarkers, imaging tests, and functional assessments. 

The tools we will use to make sure your metabolic health and disease prevention lifestyle choices are optimized include wearable devices, nutritional interventions, exercise and physical training, improved sleep patterns, and assessment of stress management. 

I do believe a trusting therapeutic relationship is key to understanding the factors in a person's life that will help lifestyle changes stick long term. The choices we will focus are for the long haul and making significant changes in lifestyle often requires understanding motivations and resistance. Talking about the hurdles to lifestyle change will be an important component of our work.