Karla Birkholz, MD

Karla Birkholz is the founder and physician at Your Wellness MD, a Direct Primary Care and Functional Medicine practice in Phoenix. After a highly decorated 40 year career in traditional allopathic medicine, she opened the practice to build the kind of care she had long believed in, one that bridges conventional and integrative medicine.

Her background is in family practice, where she studied intensively to become an expert in prevention and wellness. She has fully stepped away from insurance based medicine, and that shift lets her apply personalized, precision medicine so patients can get the most out of life. Direct primary care, she believes, beats the insurance model on cost, on the doctor patient relationship, and on actual health outcomes.

Her current focus areas in Functional Medicine include immune health, cardio-metabolic disease prevention, hormones, mold illness, environmental toxicity, and gut health.