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A Precision Approach to Your Health
Experience a trusting, collaborative health care relationship and extraordinary medical care with Dr. Richa Uppal, MD.
Our independent, concierge-style internal medicine practice in NW Portland has limited spots available now. Contact us to get started.
A Shift You Can Feel. Insights You Can Use.
If you believe excellent health is your greatest competitive advantage and most valuable asset, and that investing in it now is a priority, consider joining us.
Every hour wasted navigating the traditional healthcare system is time not spent with family, at work, at the gym, building your business, making important decisions.
No matter where you are in your journey, once we begin working together you will feel a shift and gain a deeper understanding of your body’s unique constitution.
Our goal is to keep you doing what you want to do in the world - not sitting in a doctor’s office.
And when you do need your own trusted physician, I am right by your side. All you have to do is call me directly.
What Does This Mean?
Establish a personalized wellness strategy and plan
Lock in great health, rather than watch it decline
Prevent heart attacks, strokes, cognitive decline, and cancer
Use nutrition and exercise as powerful drivers of heart and brain health
Receive in-depth care for acute or chronic illness - virtual, in-person, or at home
Improve musculoskeletal health and prevent recreational sports injuries
Health Is Your Most Valuable Asset
Just as your 401k advisor works for you, your physician should too - not 20 years later, but now. Investing in your health today creates compounding benefits, just like early retirement planning. Maximizing performance and energy through targeted nutrition, exercise, and injury prevention can begin at any age.
Every part of the body, from teeth to toes, tells a story - if you know where to look. That’s where an experienced diagnostician serves as your advisor. Success starts early and continues across a lifetime.
With that foundation, we layer in diagnostic imaging, advanced labs, genetic testing, and other state-of-the-art tools to uncover deeper insights and identify what needs to be monitored or treated.
Where Are You on Your Journey?
Athletes & Active Lifestyles
You can elevate your already excellent lifestyle. Here we look for traps that may limit you down the road. We design individualized nutrition and exercise strategies tailored to your goals, culture, and life - not a generic plan. As one patient put it: “I was healthy when I walked into your office, and now I’m even healthier.” Our work together will take you further.
Entrepreneurs & Executives
If you are building companies, managing teams, and making decisions that affect hundreds, your cognitive performance and energy directly impact everyone depending on you.
Early & Mid-Career Professionals
Set yourself up for success with stress management and ergonomic strategies while preventing cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline that can derail careers and lives later.
Individuals with Long Horizons
If you plan to perform at a high level well into your 70s and 80s, cognitive sharpness, physical stamina, and sustained creativity aren’t optional - they’re requirements for the life you’re building.
The Heart-Brain-Metabolism Axis
In short: The brain-heart-metabolism axis is your body’s command-and-power system. When it works, you thrive. When it fails, every major disease of aging gains ground. My job is to find the cracks early, strengthen the system, and keep you performing at your best for as long as possible.
More detail: Think of your brain, heart, and metabolism as a command center and power grid that keeps your body running.
The brain is the control tower, directing sleep, appetite, stress, and hormones.
The heart is the engine, pumping oxygen and nutrients everywhere.
Metabolism is the power plant, turning food into usable energy and balancing blood sugar, fats, and hormones.
When this system is in sync, everything works: clear thinking, steady energy, strong immunity, balanced weight, and resilience against disease.
But when the axis is dysfunctional, the command center and power grid falter. Blood vessels stiffen, energy production becomes inefficient, inflammation rises, and signals between brain, heart, and metabolism get scrambled. Over time, this breakdown doesn’t just affect the heart or brain - it drives problems in every system: hormones, immune defenses, liver, kidneys, muscles, joints, and bones.
Why Old Models Fall Short
Traditional medicine often zooms in on cholesterol and blood sugar as isolated markers. But current research shows those are only surface indicators. The deeper story is how the entire brain-heart-metabolism axis functions - the interconnected biology that predicts long-term health and disease risk.
This is where my practice is different. I don’t just treat a lab number. I analyze the whole axis and how it affects you today and, in the decades, ahead.
Musculoskeletal Health Matters
Exercise is the body’s most powerful regulator of this axis. But when muscles, joints, or bones are restricted by pain or injury, the whole system suffers, metabolism slows, cardiovascular risk rises, inflammation increases, and brain performance declines.
That’s why protecting and optimizing the musculoskeletal system is a core part of my approach - so that you can stay active, keep the axis strong, and prevent the cascade of dysfunction that accelerates aging.
When the Rubber Hits the Road
Precise treatment begins with a thorough history and physical exam. We integrate diagnostics, genetic analyses, biomarker trends, lifestyle factors, family history, and stress patterns - synthesized into actionable insights about your health trajectory and opportunities for prevention.
This is strategic healthcare, not reactive sick care. You deserve someone thinking as strategically about your health as you think about your life and your 401k - identifying opportunities and preventing problems to sustain peak performance for decades.
Detective work across systems: tracing symptoms to root causes
Time saved: no waiting rooms, urgent care visits, or repeating your history to unfamiliar providers
Problems prevented: early intervention costs far less - financially and personally - than treating advanced disease
Performance optimized: when health is strategically managed, every other area of life works better
A limited practice size ensures you receive the analytical depth and attention your health deserves. Insurance continues to cover specialists, emergencies, and standard testing as usual.
Dr. Richa Uppal’s Practice for You
Our goal is to keep you doing what you want to do in the world - not sitting in a doctor’s office.
And when you do need your own trusted physician, I am right by your side.
This practice is for people who:
Understand that prevention is more efficient than treatment
Want healthcare that matches the standards they set in other areas of life
Recognize that health affects everything they strive to accomplish
Cannot afford to get sick during critical phases of work and life
Are ready to invest in long-term optimization over short-term convenience
Ready for precision healthcare that works with you as a unique individual?
To learn more, please send us a message at ______ or text 971.229.4545.
Dr. Richa Uppal, MD
FAQs
Q: What is a typical visit to your office like?
My patients will attest that I’m all about going beyond the surface. No detail is pushed aside as all our body systems are connected. Through history-taking, examination, and an unwavering commitment to the latest science, I want to bring all my knowledge towards the benefit of my patients. I place great importance on staying educated in the latest advances in medicine.
Each appointment is unrushed, giving you the time you need to share your concerns. It's in these moments of unhurried care that the real breakthroughs happen—accurate diagnoses and the magic of true healing.
Since I am limiting my practice to a small group of patients, patients can expect a deep knowledge of and familiarity with their needs and lifestyles, prompt solutions to their health care needs, obviating delays in treatment, and unnecessary trips to urgent care or ER.
Q: What is concierge-style medicine, and how does it work?
Concierge-style medicine is based on executive health, an over 100-year old care model pre-dating US for-profit healthcare insurance that was designed to keep important people alive and thriving for as long as possible. You deserve that style of care too, enhanced by this practice’s unique care approaches.
Q: What are the benefits of concierge-style medicine?
Robust ongoing communication with the physician via phone, email, or text
Evidence-based preventative care to help achieve longevity and thrive
Personalized medicine for your specific needs and goals.
Travel medicine for your next adventure, available when you need it.
Q: Does concierge-style medicine still accept insurance?
Yes, I am credentialed with major insurance plans except Pacific Source and Cigna.
The concierge fee is separate from insurance and covers services like fast care connection, robust ongoing communication with your doctor, and wellness planning.
Membership or concierge fee does NOT cover acute care, labs, imaging studies, specialist care, ER and urgent care visits, hospital stays, surgeries and so on. These will be covered by your respective insurance plan.