Personal Health MD
A Back Bay concierge practice founded in 2011, pairing board-certified physicians with 150-patient panels, prevention-focused annual physicals, and a broad on-site procedure list.
The care team
Who would actually see you, and what they trained in.
Lisa McGonigal, MD, MPH
West Virginia University for both medical school and residency; MPH from George Washington University; fellowship in Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine at UMass, where she is an assistant professor. The practice’s accepting physician.
Richard Donahue, MD, MPH
Medical director and founder
Board certified in Family Medicine
Team, training and credentials as described by the clinic on its website.
What this clinic can help you evaluate or manage
Plain-language goals come first. The clinic’s named tests, treatments and programs stay below for people who want the technical detail.
Direct-pay family medicine built around a long annual physical and advanced lipid testing.
Establish where you stand today, before symptoms show up.
Clinic lists a comprehensive annual physical with advanced testing.Find cardiovascular risk years before an event.
Clinic lists advanced lipid and inflammation testing.Separate hormonal change from everything else it gets blamed for.
Clinic lists hormone balancing and in-home sleep monitoring.Services explained
Plain-language groupings help make different clinic service menus easier to understand and compare.
Care domains
Ongoing physician-led primary care with a prevention emphasis inside a small-panel membership.
Diagnostics
Advanced testing offered around the comprehensive annual physical.
On-site procedures
Procedures the clinic performs in its own office rather than referring out.
Additional testing
Additional functional-style panels the clinic offers; supporting evidence for these is still limited.
What the clinic publishes
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Published signals beyond the physician
Clinic-level memberships, institutional relationships and published positions. Physician training and board-certification claims are shown in the care team above.
Practical information
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Questions worth asking this clinic
Drawn from what the clinic’s own materials leave open. Useful for a first call or consult.