Lisha Town, MD

Dr. Lisha Town is a board certified family physician at ThriveDPC in South Bend. She earned her medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, and she has practiced medicine since 2013, running her own private practice since 2018.

Early in her career she followed the standard calories-in-calories-out approach, carefully mapping out weight loss plans that sent patients home hopeful. Yet when they returned, few had reached their goals, and most described the same pattern, a strong start followed by hunger, fatigue and frustration. That repetition made her question whether willpower was really the problem, since her training had taught her plenty about diagnosing disease but almost nothing about nutrition.

That question eventually led her to open her own Direct Primary Care practice, what she likes to call blue-collar concierge medicine. With more time to spend with each patient, she dug into the research and began to understand the hormonal drivers behind weight gain and conditions like diabetes and hypertension. She now builds her care around restoring metabolic balance and addressing root causes, an approach that changed the way she practices medicine.