Shweta Patel, MD, FACOG
Physician • Builder • Navy Veteran • AI Advocate
I build things that give physicians and patients agency over their own lives.
Who I Am
Physician First. Builder Always.
I started medical school at twenty, joined the Navy at twenty-one, became a doctor at twenty-four, and was board-certified by twenty-five. After thirteen years in uniform and five more in civilian hospital medicine, I realized: the system wasn't built for the people inside it — not for patients, not for doctors. So I started building my own.
In 2022, I doubled down on Gaya Wellness — a virtual concierge practice that gives women the time, attention, and hormonal expertise they'd been denied. In 2023, I discovered AI. By 2025, I'd gone from prompting chatbots to building full applications, deploying AI agents, and shipping SaaS products — all as a solo physician-founder with no engineering background.
Now I'm channeling all of it — the medicine, the technology, the entrepreneurship — into empowering other physicians to take the same leap I did. Whether it's a burned-out attending ready to launch their own practice, or a brand-new intern who's never felt more lost, I want them to know: there's another way.
In My Own Words
Why I Started Building
What I'm Building
Three Ventures, One Mission
Gaya Wellness
Virtual concierge women's health. HRT, medical weight loss, and longevity medicine — built around the patient, not the insurance code. Licensed in 5 states.
PracticeCtrl
A white-labeled platform that gives independent physicians the tech stack to launch and run their own practice — CRM, funnels, automation, AI agents — without a six-figure build.
ROPE
AI-powered residency program management. Helping graduate medical education programs streamline evaluations, track milestones, and support trainees from day one. Piloting now.
AI + Healthcare
From conversational AI to agentic AI — I'm not just using it, I'm building with it. Deploying it for patient engagement, automating operations, and proving a solo physician-entrepreneur can compete at scale.
13 Years
U.S. Navy Physician
FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
3 Ventures
Gaya · PracticeCtrl · ROPE
Solo Founder
Physician-Entrepreneur
Author
The Book of Hormones
A clear, no-nonsense guide to understanding how hormones shape every stage of a woman's life — from your first period to menopause and beyond. Written by a physician, for the women who keep asking "but why?"
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Whether you're a patient looking for real answers about your hormones, a physician ready to break free from the system, or someone who just wants to talk about what's possible when medicine meets AI — I'd love to hear from you.