For nearly two decades, I worked in corporate risk management and disaster recovery, helping global organizations identify vulnerabilities, build resilience, and prepare for the unexpected. That work taught me to think in systems: to look beyond the immediate problem, understand what drives it, and create conditions that make people, processes, and places more resilient.

My path into health began with a deeply personal loss. Within a single year, I lost my best friend to metastatic cancer and my father to chronic disease. I watched them move through a medical system focused largely on diagnoses and prescriptions, with little attention paid to the everyday behaviors and environmental factors that shape health over time.

Years later, while studying the causes of chronic illness in graduate school, I was introduced to Lifestyle Medicine and began to understand how profoundly daily behaviors influence disease. As an athlete, I already knew this connection firsthand: what we eat, how we train, how we recover, and how we live can fundamentally change how we perform.

Along the way, I also became drawn to circadian medicine, which looks at how the timing of sleep, light, meals, and activity affects our health. What I find most compelling about both fields is that they recognize health is shaped not only by what happens in a doctor’s office, but by what happens every day.

This perspective brought my two worlds together. Today, I focus on creating environments that make healthy choices the easier choices, supporting disease prevention, better health, and, where possible, disease reversal.

I believe medicine is evolving toward a more proactive, behavior-based model: one that looks upstream, addresses root causes, and uses lifestyle and environment as powerful tools for restoring health and reducing unnecessary reliance on medication.

My philosophy is simple: health isn’t only something we treat. It’s something we create through the conditions in which we live, work, eat, move, sleep, and recover.