I am originally from Flanagan, a small town about 30 miles south of Ottawa. I grew up very much around agriculture, most days helping out on the family farm. I still enjoy getting back down to the farm with my kids and helping out when I am able. This background planted within me the love of strong relationships and good, frank conversations that helped to form my idea of what a patient/physician relationship should look like. It also taught me the value of being authentic and direct — no beating around the bush.

After high school, I had the desire to serve others through my training and medicine stood out as a way I could do this best. For undergraduate studies, I attended the University of Illinois in Champaign from 2007-2011 where I was blessed to find my Catholic faith and to meet my wife Maggie at St. John’s Catholic Newman Center where we married in 2012.

After college, I attended Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola in Chicago from 2011-2015. While there, I decided to pursue Family Medicine as a specialty. This was both because of my innate curiosity and inability to let go of any branch of medicine or feel that there was anything totally out of my reach and because of the unique relationship that a primary care physician has with their patients. I loved that the family medicine physician has a relationship with the whole patient and not just a part of the body or system.

After medical school, I attended residency at St. Joseph Medical Center in Mishawaka (South Bend), IN from 2015-2018. I chose this program due to its broad training which provided exposure to the whole breadth of medicine including quality OB, pediatric and medical training, as well as ability to have a fully trained NaPro physician across the hall who I was able to learn from as I developed my knowledge of treating fertility and Woman’s health diagnoses with a more natural and ethical approach.

Following residency, we moved to Ottawa and began putting down roots in the community. When we arrived in Ottawa, we had two children, and over the next 5 years, we would have three more in our local hospital. We are now proud parents to five children, ranging in age from 1 to 10. We are active members of the Ottawa Catholic Community and enjoy having the kids in multiple community sports and extra-curriculars. We like taking road trips to national parks and camping on weekends, as well as hiking in our local parks.

Upon moving to Ottawa, I began work for OSF in 2018 and between then and 2024, I served in multiple leadership positions in addition to full spectrum primary care and inpatient pediatric and nursery care as well as providing fertility care services including NaPro technology. During this time, I grew in my desire to provide a different level of care to my patients, to have time to meaningfully address their needs and give them the time that would allow this. When I discovered direct primary care, it seemed like the answer to prayer. I formed Holy Family DPC out of my desire to provide excellent, comprehensive care, like having a doctor in the family, to all my patients and to do so in an authentically Catholic way.