Military Service · 33 Years
Medicine where the stakes are highest.
Across three decades of uniformed service, Dr. Nathanson held some of the most demanding medical roles in the United States Armed Forces — practicing trauma, critical care, and undersea medicine in environments where the margin for error is zero.
Army · Special Operations
Special Forces Medical Sergeant
Embedded combat medic trained to deliver advanced trauma care, surgical intervention, and longitudinal medical management in austere, remote, and tactically denied environments.
Air Force · Aerospace Medicine
Flight Surgeon, Chief
Chief flight surgeon responsible for the medical readiness of aircrews, aerospace physiology, and the operational health of military aviation personnel.
Air Force · CCATT
Critical Care Air Transport Team, Chief
Led the highest-acuity airborne ICU teams responsible for the in-flight transport of critically wounded service members between theaters of care — effectively flying intensive care units.
Undersea & Hyperbaric
Diving Medical Technician
Specialized in undersea and hyperbaric medicine — dive injury management, decompression illness, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in operational and clinical settings.
Civilian Practice
A physician with unusually broad formal training.
Most physicians specialize narrowly. Dr. Nathanson's training spans the acute, the chronic, the pediatric, and the systems-based — a foundation that informs how he thinks about the body as an interconnected whole.
Medical Doctor · Twice Board-Certified
Board certification in two medical specialties.
Emergency Medicine
Trauma instructor for the American College of Surgeons.
Internal Medicine
Formal training in the diagnosis and management of adult disease.
Pediatrics
Formal training in pediatric medicine.
Functional Medicine
Root-cause and systems-based approach to chronic disease.
Advanced Metabolic Endocrinology
Specialized training in hormone systems, metabolism, and longevity medicine.
Off the Clock
Husband. Father. Grandfather. Practitioner.
Outside the clinic and the lab, Dr. Nathanson is a family man and a lifelong student of discipline — a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a traveler, and the patriarch of a multi-generational family that grounds the work.
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A note on the man behind the platform: the breadth of Dr. Nathanson's training — from austere combat medicine to the science of hormones and longevity — is matched by the breadth of the life he has built outside of it. The work is steady because the life is steady.
