Efe Sahinoglu, MD

Dr. Efe Sahinoglu is a board-certified family medicine and obesity medicine physician at Birmingham Direct Primary Care in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in Montgomery and studied chemical engineering at Auburn University, graduating with honors and working as an engineer before he went back to medical school at UAB. Training in family medicine through the University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency Program, he has now spent two decades building his career in the state he calls home.

He first encountered direct primary care in the fall of 2017 and saw it as a way to practice medicine the way he had always wanted to, so he opened Birmingham Direct Primary Care the following year. The model lets him spend real time with patients, get to know their concerns, and tailor care to each person rather than rush through a checklist, and he sees patients both in person and by telemedicine across Central Alabama.