Big news! If you haven’t heard, Offcall is ready to announce the soft launch of our new HIPAA-compliant referral and networking tool for the Columbus community. You’re invited to join us for an unforgettable evening at the immersive Prototype Museum.

The event will bring together a select group of Columbus clinicians under the same roof – and feature cocktails, small bites, and a live panel discussion about practicing medicine in Columbus hosted by Offcall’s co-founder Dr. Graham Walker and Columbus allergist and immunologist Dr. Basil Kahwash (star guests to be announced this coming week!). We’re excited to see everyone on this newsletter there. 

Please RSVP to claim your spot!

Offcall is launching something new: A virtual AI Residency for Clinicians — a four-part live webinar series designed to help every clinician confidently integrate AI into their practice.

The series is hosted by Dr. Graham Walker alongside independent direct primary care pediatrician Dr. Michael Hobbs and will feature special guest speakers throughout!

🗓️ Session #1 kicks off March 25: This first session will focus on practical ways to start incorporating AI today, featuring live demos and featured tools! We’ll break down:

👉 How you can use AI for clinical documentation to actually save time
👉 A simple framework you can use to evaluate AI outputs immediately
👉 How to recognize AI failure modes in medical text before they affect patient care
👉 Graham and Michael's personal AI tool kits and best practices

🗓️ March 25: RSVP to claim your spot

What’s your biggest question about AI or the future of medicine?

We’re introducing something new: Office Hours with Graham, a special new series where Graham will answer all your open and honest questions about:

👉 How AI is changing medicine
👉 How to deploy technology to fit clinician workflows
👉 How to practice a career in entrepreneurship and medicine

Or anything else that’s on your mind!

As an Emergency Medicine physician, AI leader, and 2x startup co-founder, if you’re wondering about it, Graham has probably lived it firsthand. So you can either: watch this video and drop your questions in the comments, reply with your question directly to this email, or you can email a voice note to [email protected] so we can feature your question on Office Hours and the How I Doctor podcast. We can’t wait to hear from you!

As part of our mission to lift up Columbus clinicians, each week we’ll feature a different clinician who’s having an incredible impact in the community. This week, meet otolaryngologist Dr. Subinoy Das who spent runs his own practice and is the former Director of The Ohio State University Sinus and Allergy Center.

1. Shu, tell us a little bit about your practice. I am an ENT by training and did a fellowship in sinus surgery. I came to Ohio State in 2008 to be the Director of Sinus Surgery and stayed on faculty until 2015. I joined a large group for several years after that, and then took the plunge and went solo around Covid. 

2. Why are you so passionate about being independent? Being independent allows me to best practice medicine the way I think it should be, as a privileged calling that is not motivated by other factors outside of my patients’ best interests. I have more freedom over my schedule and my administrators are completely responsive to my needs. Being independent has brought tremendous joy back to practicing medicine that was getting lost by the conflicting needs of a large practice.  

3. What’s your biggest hope / dream for the future of the Columbus physician community? That it remains vibrant and interconnected and survives the onslaught from insurance companies and increased regulation that are forcing more independent practitioners to retire or join large groups. 

4. Fun fact: When you get all the time back using the Offcall app to send and receive referrals, what will you do for fun?! My current bucket list goal in life is to try to visit 2 national parks and 2 different NFL stadiums a year. I also like to go skiing and fishing with my kids. Getting home even 15 minutes earlier gives me more time to read for pleasure or work out which contributes a lot to my overall health.

Each week, we celebrate career milestones, new publications, & other goings-on in the Columbus community. Have something to promote? Reply so we can feature you. Also: Try sending each clinician a congratulations message in the Offcall app!

✅ Great interview, Nikhil Verma
Dr. Nikhil Verma was featured in an interview discussing the things he never learned in med school: Reading a P&L, negotiating a lease, building a team. Marketing to patients or building a brand. Watch it here.

👏 Thanks for all your work, Kara Wada
Dr. Kara Wada is hosting the 5th Annual Virtual Sjögren’s Summit, an online event bridging cutting-edge medical innovation with real-world tools that patients need to live stronger, more confident lives. Learn more and reach out to Kara here.

👍 Thanks for your leadership, Basil Kahwash
Dr. Basil Kahwash shared his experience from this year’s 2026 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology event in Philadelphia, a large and vibrant gathering of the allergy/immunology community. See more here.

✅ Great conversation, Mrunal Shah
Dr. Mrunal Shah appeared on the Life Changing Moments videocast from MDCoaches along with host Dr. Dael Waxman to discuss the value of coaching in medicine and how it can help with leadership transitions, burnout and disillusionment. Watch it here.

Thanks for reading. We’re building an invite-only referral network and tool for Columbus physicians to find other doctors and send referrals effortlessly with one tap, regardless of EMR (think private WhatsApp for and by doctors). We’re excited to meet local primary care doctors and specialists who want to build up their practice and be part of this growing network. Want to be invited? Reply or reach out directly ([email protected]).

Feel free to forward this newsletter to other Columbus colleagues and friends!

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