After 19 years in practice as a board-certified Internal Medicine physician and medical educator in traditional US healthcare systems, Dr. Fick ventured into the direct care model to provide high quality, affordable, and patient-centered primary and limited-scope care to her patients. Her approach to medicine is centered around preventive and lifestyle medicine philosophies and a sturdy belief that the body is capable of self-care and healing with proper nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress management, social connection, and avoidance of risky substances. As such, she is pursuing board certification from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and eventually hopes to have a lifestyle-medicine predominant practice.

Dr. Laurel Fick is an accomplished medical educator having served in medical residency leadership for 16 years. Her academic areas of interest are in physician wellbeing, particularly physicians-in-training and mentorship / advocacy. Dr. Fick serves as an elected Councilor for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, was elected to serve as a member of the Transitional Year Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and on the advisory committee for the Women Physicians Wellness Conference. Dr. Fick has presented and published widely on topics related to physician wellbeing and educational innovation.

Dr. Fick and her husband of 15+ years have two school-aged children, a houseful of pets, and a growing garden. In her spare time Dr. Fick likes to read, travel, coach her kids' basketball and volleyball teams, and explore her culinary potential.