About

My work is in health—the wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit. And my role is that of a bridge: between disciplines, systems, and perspectives.

I came to medicine through many streams. Fifteen years of contemplative practice in Buddhist, Taoist, and shamanic traditions. Undergraduate work in exercise science and human biology, deep study of nutrition, biophysics, and the electromagnetic dimensions of biology that conventional training tends to overlook. A lifetime as a competitive athlete. Eventually, medical school at Columbia and psychiatry residency at Dartmouth—not because of anything particular to psychiatry; rather, the conventional training provides a broad scientific foundation with which to integrate everything else. It's a vehicle, one I can use to weave together ten thousand threads. Because it's not one thing, it's everything.

I'm in medicine because I saw a fractured world of experts and information without cohesive integration; a world that's mapped out pathology but forgotten flourishing. I aim to understand the nuts and bolts without losing the forest for the trees—the scientific precision of the west alongside the time-refined gestalt of eastern and indigenous traditions, with particular Jungian influence in my psychological framing.

These days my work spans psychiatric emergency and inpatient units, longitudinal psychotherapy, psychedelic preparation and integration, and helping design retreat environments where we can stack variables: nature immersion, bodywork, group process, ceremony. I work with patients navigating complex multi-system illnesses who have been failed by a siloed, fragmented medical system that wasn't built to see them whole—as well as those pursuing health optimization, performance, and longevity. I have particular expertise in psychedelic medicine and in the bridge between western and more traditional perspectives and lineages, though my focus is less on the interventions themselves than the ecology of healing surrounding them—the conditions where transformation can be supported, embodied, and lasting. I also consult and advise on the spaces, systems, and modalities that shape how people heal, work that draws on years spent building healthcare and technology companies.

Eclectic background, wide range of interests: I've competed as a D1 athlete, officiated 100-boat sailboat races, worked as a personal trainer, worked as a janitor, helped start a record label, dabbled in disaster response, built libraries, raised the stoke, and helped grow various technology companies including Parsley Health. Read more on my background and approach here.