About Dr. Shweta Patel, MD, FACOG

Brooklyn to the Operating Room

I started medical school at twenty, at the SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. I joined the United States Navy at twenty-one. By twenty-four, I was a doctor. Board-certified OB/GYN by twenty-five.

I spent thirteen years as a Navy physician, completing my OB/GYN residency through the military and serving at naval hospitals across the country. The Navy taught me discipline, resourcefulness, and how to deliver exceptional care when the resources were lean and the stakes were high. It taught me what it means to serve a mission bigger than yourself.

Civilian Medicine: 34 to 39

I left the Navy at thirty-four and transitioned into hospital-based OB/GYN. Delivering babies, performing surgeries, managing complex cases — the work I'd trained my whole career for. But something was deeply wrong.

Women were waiting weeks for seven-minute appointments. They'd hand me a list of symptoms — fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, low libido — and I'd know exactly what was going on hormonally, but I didn't have the time or the system to address it. Insurance dictated the care. The visit was over before it started. I kept thinking: there has to be a better way.

2022: Doubling Down

The pandemic changed everything. Telehealth went from a novelty to a necessity overnight, and suddenly the barriers that kept concierge-style care out of reach — geography, scheduling, access — started to dissolve.

In 2022, I doubled down on Gaya Wellness — a virtual concierge women's health practice designed around the way medicine should actually work: personal, evidence-based, and built around the patient's timeline, not the insurance company's. HRT, medical weight loss, longevity medicine — the areas traditional medicine rushes through or ignores entirely. Licensed across five states, accepting HSA/FSA, and built for the women who keep asking "but why?" All while still working as a hospitalist — to keep the credentials, the patient interactions, and the bills paid.

2023: My First Conversation with AI

Then came the moment that changed my trajectory again. In 2023, I had my first real interaction with AI — ChatGPT — and the world cracked open. I saw immediately that this wasn't just a tech toy. This was the thing that could give a solo physician-entrepreneur the leverage to compete with systems that have entire departments.

I went deep. I started learning prompt engineering, exploring automations, and figuring out how AI could handle the operational weight of running a practice — the parts that burn physicians out before they ever get to the medicine.

2025: From LLMs to Agentic AI

In 2025, I built my first app. Then my second. Then I discovered the difference between conversational AI and agentic AI — and everything shifted. Conversational AI answers questions. Agentic AI does work. Once I understood that distinction, I went from being AI-curious to building full SaaS products, deploying AI agents, and shipping real code — all without an engineering degree or a technical co-founder.

I launched PracticeCtrl — a white-labeled platform that gives independent physicians the tech stack to launch their own practice without a six-figure build. I started building ROPE — an AI-powered residency program management tool, now piloting at Winter Haven Hospital. Three ventures. All built by one physician with a laptop, a vision, and AI.

What I Do Now

Today I sit at the intersection of medicine, technology, and entrepreneurship. I still see patients through Gaya Wellness — that will always be core to who I am. But I'm also building the tools and systems that let other physicians do what I did: break free from the system and practice on their own terms.

• Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
• Menopause & Perimenopause Care
• Medical Weight Loss (GLP-1s)
• Longevity & Preventive Medicine
• AI in Healthcare
• Physician Entrepreneurship

Whether it's a burned-out attending ready to launch their own practice, a residency program that needs modern tools, or a woman in midlife who's been told her symptoms are "just aging" — I want to be the person who shows them there's another way.

Author: The Book of Hormones

I wrote The Book of Hormones because I was tired of watching women piece together their health from Instagram posts and conflicting Google results. It's what I wish I could hand every patient on day one — a clear, medically accurate, and genuinely readable guide to how hormones shape your energy, mood, weight, sleep, and aging. No jargon, no fear-mongering, just the truth about your biology.

Beyond the Builds

When I'm not seeing patients or shipping code, you'll find me with my furbabies — who keep me grounded, laughing, and perpetually behind on lint-rolling. I love live music, a really good facial, and any conversation about how to make healthcare work better for the people it's supposed to serve.

I'm a proud veteran-owned business founder, and I bring the same values I learned in the Navy to everything I build: discipline, integrity, and an unwavering commitment to doing the work that matters.