A Better Way to Prepare for and Recovery from Surgery — From Someone Who’s Seen It All

Combining surgical expertise with wellness, advocacy, and patient navigation principles to help patients reduce risk, heal faster, and feel supported every step of the way.

My Story

I am a board-certified general surgeon with over 25 years of operating room experience and practice performing complex procedures — from cancer surgeries to trauma care. Over the years, I began to notice something that deeply concerned me: Patients were going through surgery without being physically, emotionally, and mentally prepared for the experience.

They were being treated for the procedure — but not supported as a whole person.

I began exploring functional and integrative medicine and wanted to understand how sleep, stress, nutrition, and overall health impacted surgical outcomes. What I found changed everything...significant data supported the common sense that improving overall patient health and functioning reduced surgery risks, improved outcomes, and accelerated recovery.

I realized that as surgeons, we were putting patients through immense stress — similar to a major trauma — without giving them the tools to handle it.

In 2022, I integrated the whole-patient approach into my clinic work, as well as being their advocate and teammate navigating surgical healthcare. The results were powerful:

✦ Smoother recoveries

✦ Fewer complications

✦ More confident, empowered patients

In 2025, I founded the Center for Surgical Wellness, a telehealth surgical health and wellness clinic to bring this approach to more people — and help patients experience surgery in a safer, more supported way.

Why This Work Is Different

This program is built on real, first-hand surgical experience combined with wellness principles — creating a level of insight and guidance that most patients never receive.

My Mission

My mission is to optimize surgical recovery and support whole-person healing through a personalized approach to surgical health and wellness. By combining modern surgical science, functional and integrative medicine, and personalized care plans, we help patients reduce risks, improve outcomes, and recover faster and more fully.

My Approach

This is not traditional perioperative care — it is specialized surgical health and wellness planning designed for the physical and emotional demands of surgery. By focusing on sleep, stress, nutrition, gut health, and functional strength, each plan is tailored to your body and your procedure, helping you prepare better and recover more effectively.