I am a physician executive in Richmond, Virginia. I earned my Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Mysore, completed family medicine residency and a chief residency at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, and hold a Master of Health Care Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I have been board certified in family medicine and licensed in Virginia since 2007.
At Bon Secours Mercy Health I serve as Medical Director of the Primary Care Service Line and of Population Health, directing strategy and clinical operations across 34 primary care sites. I chair the Advanced Care Transformation Committee and chaired the Richmond Accountable Care Organization Board through 2023. The work is unglamorous and specific — schedule templates, pre-visit workflows, patient registries, two-day post-discharge outreach, documentation audits. It moved our largest market from 16.7% to 83.3% of its quality goals, with hypertension control at 80%, diabetes control at 85% and depression screening and monitoring at 94%.
I spent years arguing that pharmacists should be treated as clinicians rather than dispensers, and in 2025 I was a physician co-author on the study that tested it. Published in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, it compared pharmacist–physician collaborative care with standard care across 1,293 patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. Patients whose care was shared with a pharmacist were three to five times more likely to reach A1c control, with better blood pressure control alongside it.
That finding is the thesis of this company. At Scriptify I own the protocol set and supervise every encounter, and my job is to make the result hold at scale: every protocol physician-authored and physician-approved, every escalation routed back to the patient’s own prescriber, every note reviewed and co-signed before it leaves us.