A health system vice president told Dr. Kirsten Lin that physicians cannot be trusted to manage their own schedules. She and Dr. Natalie Gentile met at a DPC Summit, spent six months of weekends vaccinating independent clinicians and homebound patients, then launched Direct Care Physicians of Pittsburgh in January 2022, the first managed services organization built for Direct Primary Care.

Direct Primary Care Doctor Dr. Clodagh Ryan is a board certified family medicine physician. She grew up in Ireland and graduated from Trinity College Dublin Medical School in 1999. After working in primary care in Ireland for a few years, she moved to the western suburbs of Chicago where she completed family medicine residency at Adventist La Grange Memorial hospital and spent 8 years in private insurance-based practice. As the medical landscape became more difficult for the

Direct Primary Care Doctor, IBCLC Dr. “Mandy” Dornfeld is a life-long Indiana resident. After completing medical school at Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola Chicago, Dr. Dornfeld, moved to Muncie, Indiana to complete residency training. She and her family chose to settle in Columbus immediately after her residency training where she practiced full-spectrum family medicine for 13 years, caring for patients in the hospital, in the office, and delivering babies. In 2020 she