A medical practice built around what helps people stay healthy, capable, and engaged in life.
Not a new specialty, and not a rejection of conventional medicine. A general medicine practice organized around cultivating and restoring human capacity.
Capability is built before it is tested.
I have practiced medicine in hospitals, emergency rooms, rural critical access facilities, and the Army, including a deployment to Iraq. I have taught family medicine physicians and cared for acutely ill patients through the COVID-19 pandemic. Across those settings, I became increasingly interested not only in treating illness, but in what allows people to remain healthy, capable, and resilient over a lifetime.
That is the focus of Develop Medical Group. We combine good general medicine with meaningful measurement and an engaged physician relationship that extends into the foundational habits that shape health — training, nutrition, sleep, and recovery. My role is to help you understand your current state, provide medical context and judgment, identify risks or limitations, and apply medicine thoughtfully in support of what you are trying to accomplish.
Outside the clinic, I am a lifelong athlete and backcountry wilderness enthusiast. Strength, endurance, and physiological reserve are not abstract metrics to me. They are part of what allows us to work, explore, contribute, and participate fully in life. I want to help people build and preserve that capacity for as long as possible.
Credentials matter, but they are not why you would choose a physician. Judgment, curiosity and a shared commitment to keeping you capable are — and those matter over time.
Built for whatever you want to stay capable of.
Backcountry capable — Alaska rewards capability and punishes deferred maintenance. But the philosophy is universal: consistent attention to the foundational behaviors that keep people working, moving, and doing what they love. Whether that's a mountain range, a job site, a sport, or keeping up with your kids, the practice is built for capacity.
The philosophy and the software.
Develop OS is the clinical software built around the Human Capacity Framework — it maintains a useful current representation of a person rather than an archive of their records. Develop Medical Group is the clinical practice: the same philosophy applied in a physician's clinical practice.
Your health is not just something that happens to you.Understand it. Build it. Protect it.