We hope everyone survived the snowstorm and we’re excited to reach out with the latest Offcall Columbus weekly update!

Thank you to everyone who’s tested the app and shared feedback over the past several weeks. The Offcall team is heads down racing to release two key features:

While we build these features, we’d also like to acknowledge a few of the superstar clinicians who helped get the app off the ground and spread the word this week.

We want to hear from you! We’re collecting 100 responses to a handful of survey questions about independent practice (takes 2 mins!) which we will publish anonymously as part of our Offcall’s upcoming 2026 Fairness Report. The ideal is to capture what independent doctors feel has gone wrong in modern medicine and detail what collective changes you want to see. Thanks in advance for participating!

Take the short survey here

As part of our mission to lift up Columbus clinicians, each week we’ll feature a different clinician having an incredible impact in the community. This week, meet Dr. Patrice Bellanti who’s a board certified psychiatrist in Dublin at Ketamine Health & Wellness Clinics of Ohio. Send her a referral or message directly on the app!

1. Patrice, tell us a little bit about your practice. Ketamine Health and Wellness Clinics of Ohio provides general psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, with specialization in treatment refractory depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD. We accept most insurance plans and are safe and evidence-based providers of IV ketamine and Spravato for patients who have not responded to traditional mental health medications and treatment.

2. Why are you so passionate about being and staying independent? Being independent has allowed for better patient care, less burn out, and happier patients and clinic staff. I have the freedom to do things like limit the number of new intakes seen daily, block out sufficient time for new and returning patients, and not feel the pressure to see 15-20 psychiatric patients a day, which many places now require. Our staff doesn't feel rushed and truly get to know our patients which is why we went into mental health in the first place! It has also allowed us to help patients in ways I couldn't before. If a patient needs a special payment plan, or more frequent follow up, I have the ability to make it happen without being blocked by administrative staff.

3. What’s your biggest hope / dream for the future of the Columbus physician community? I think a large part of physician longevity and happiness depends on feeling like you have options and control of how you want to practice medicine. This has largely disappeared for many of us in recent years, but I believe it is coming back. WE are the ones who need to make this happen. I hope physicians in Columbus know that it is possible to build a practice from the ground up, and is slowly becoming easier because of technology and the ability to outsource things like billing, advertising, website building and EMR implementation from anywhere in the country.

4. Fun fact: When you get all the time back using the Offcall app from sending and receiving referrals, what will you do for fun?! I hope to continue to spend more time hiking and camping with my kids and travelling as they get older. My 8-year-old daughter wants to go to surf school and my 10-year-old son loves WW2 history and airplanes, so I want to go to Waikiki and Pearl Harbor this summer!

Cornerstone Physical Therapy’s Justin Weisbrod announced they are growing their Johnstown location. Director Dr. Aly is looking for a DPT to join her team, either a new grad looking for mentorship and/or an experienced clinician interested in operating their own private practice. Know anyone who would be a good fit? Reply directly or get in touch with Justin on the app.

Zangmeister Cancer Center’s Physician Liaison Christin Brown announced the American Oncology Network is hiring a Registered Nurse - Oncology Infusion. Learn more here. Reply directly if you have a good fit.

We celebrate career milestones, new publications, & other goings-on in the Columbus physician community. Have something to promote? Reply so we can feature you.

👏 Thanks for writing, Mohan Thirugnanam
COPC Hospitalist Dr. Mohan Thirugnanam wrote a thoughtful article about whether clinicians and healthcare administrators are prepared for the next phase of patient questions after they allow their medical data to be interpreted by AI models. Important topic, read the essay here!

🎥 See his camera moment, Basil Kahwash
Ohio ENT & Allergy physician Dr. Basil Kahwash was featured in a new video about why not all allergic reactions are the same, and why understanding this difference helps patients respond quickly and confidently in an emergency. Great work! See the video here.

❗Exciting news, Kara Wada
Dr. Kara Wada announced she’ll be speaking at the upcoming SoMeDocs virtual conference on Modern Allergy Care on February 20 for a session entitled “Breathe Easier: A Holistic and High-Tech Allergy Relief!” Learn more info here.

🙌 Great to see, Kelvin Luu
Orthopedic ONE physician Dr. Kelvin Luu will serve as the official physician for the Columbus Fury, Columbus’ only professional women’s sports team, alongside Dr. Emily Wynkoop. Learn more about this partnership here.

✅ Excellent work, Jimisha Patel
Thrive Pediatrics’ concierge pediatrician Dr. Jimisha Patel hosted a breastfeeding support group meetup with Small Talk Speech Therapy’s independent speech-language pathologist Gina Schumann. Great to see! Learn more here.

👉 Send him a referral, Nikhil Verma
Independent physician champion and Essential Sports & Spine Solutions founder Dr. Nikhil Verma posted a breakdown of his practice and the services he offers on social media here. Send him a referral and/or message on the app.

💫 Inspiring video, Amish Oza
Dr. Amish Oza posted a video about his journey starting primary care practice Your Concierge MD and why despite hearing things like “You’ll fail in six months” and “You’ll need to lower your prices,” three years later, he’s raising prices and offering more value than he imagined. Learn more here.

💪 Thanks for sharing, Taif Mukhdomi
Pain Zero Pain Medicine physician Dr. Taif Mukhdomi posted an essay about interventional pain referrals and why assuming all pain physicians practice the same is inaccurate and detrimental to care. Read it here!

A few of the best Offcall stories related to independent private practice and relevant to the Columbus physician community.

The Future of Primary Care Is Independent: How Aledade Helps Doctors Break Free From Employed Medicine with Dr. Umar Bowers and Dan Bowles
In this episode of the How I Doctor podcast, Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Umar Bowers, an internist who left a major health system to build the practice he always imagined, and Dan Bowles, General Manager of Practice Health at Aledade, the physician-led company supporting more than 2,400 practices nationwide.

Read Offcall’s Physicians AI Report
We surveyed 1,000 doctors across 106 specialties to understand how they really feel about AI in medicine.

The Doctor's Dilemma: When Smart Money Leaves Medicine
From Columbus Pain Zero Pain Medicine physician Dr. Taif Mukhdomi: “The market is speaking. And it's saying: choose anything but medicine. Until we listen — until we fix the economics — we'll keep losing the people we need most.”