Meet your care team

Two providers. Same provider every visit.

A small physician-led team that actually knows you. Same MD or NP every appointment, no rotating residents, no PA hand-offs, no being passed around.

Dr. Anya Patel, MD

Medical Director

Dr. Patel is board-certified in Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine). She completed her fellowship at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where she trained under one of the foundational programs in the integrative-functional medicine space. She is IFMCP-certified through the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Twelve years of root-cause medicine, with a clinical focus on thyroid dysfunction, peri / menopause, and autoimmune presentations that conventional workups missed. She is also lead author on Copper Sage’s longevity protocols.

ABIM Board-Certified, Internal Medicine
Fellowship, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (U of A)
IFMCP, Institute for Functional Medicine
Member, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)

Focus areas: hormone optimization, thyroid and autoimmune, longevity, peri / menopause, root-cause workups.

Marcus Chen, FNP-C

Lead Nurse Practitioner

Marcus is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner (American Academy of Nurse Practitioners) and IFMCP-certified. Eight years in metabolic and weight-loss medicine, with a clinical focus on the metabolic underpinnings of stubborn weight gain, energy crashes, and pre-diabetes that did not respond to lifestyle alone.

He leads Copper Sage’s GLP-1, peptide, and IV nutrient protocols, and is the clinic’s go-to for patients who have tried “everything” and want to know what their actual metabolic biology is doing.

AANP Board-Certified, FNP-C
IFMCP, Institute for Functional Medicine
Certified, Peptide Therapy Institute
Advanced Hormone Replacement Certification (BHRT)

Focus areas: medical weight loss, GLP-1 protocols, peptide therapy, IV nutrient therapy, metabolic optimization.

How we built the team

Small on purpose.

We do not scale by adding chairs. We scale by keeping our patient panel small enough that the same provider stays your provider.

Same provider every visit

No rotating residents, no PA hand-offs, no being asked “have we met before?” The provider who took your intake is the provider who reads your labs and adjusts your plan.

Capped patient panel

Each provider carries a panel cap, intentionally. When we are at capacity we open a waitlist rather than spread our team thin.

Provider time is the product

Not throughput, not visit volume. We measure ourselves on patient outcomes and on how many minutes each provider has to actually think about your case.