Dear Partners and Friends,

Thank you for joining us at our Third Annual LifeSpanMD Summit.

We set out to explore one question under the theme Scaling Excellence, Preserving Entrepreneurship: How Good Can We Become? Over a few days of sessions, candid conversations, and time together, you answered it better than any of us could have alone. The energy in the room made one thing clear: this partnership is at its best when we build together.

A few themes stood out, and they will guide our work in the year ahead:

• The physician entrepreneur is our foundation. Your clinical judgment, your ownership, and your relationships with patients are what set this model apart. Scaling should strengthen that independence, not replace it.
• Excellence can scale when we share what works. The best ideas of the summit came from practices that had already solved the problems others are facing. When one practice finds a better way, every practice should benefit.
• We need to talk to each other more. Many of you said the most valuable part of the summit was simply hearing from peers. We will build more regular ways to stay connected between gatherings, so questions, lessons, and wins move across the partnership as they happen. That includes regional breakouts and mini summits, smaller gatherings where partners can meet in person, compare notes, and strengthen relationships throughout the year.
• The collective is a strategic advantage. Shared infrastructure, expertise, and collective power give each practice capabilities it could not build alone, while every practice keeps its identity, culture, and voice.
• Personalized, relationship-based, precision medicine is the future. Demand is growing, and this partnership is positioned to lead how this care is delivered and expanded.
• Global membership is an evolving design. Our members live, work, and travel around the world, and their care should follow them. The global membership concept is still taking shape, and your input will define how it works: how practices collaborate across markets, how members move between them, and how we keep the experience personal everywhere.
• New partners bring new perspectives. Our fireside chat with our newest physician partners was a reminder of why physicians choose this path, and of how much we gain from fresh eyes.
• Relationships make the partnership work. The conversations over dinner and in the hallways built the trust that turns a network into a true partnership.

The summit is over, but the work it created is just beginning. In the coming weeks, we will follow up on the ideas you raised and share next steps for putting them into action. Please keep the conversations going with the peers and partners you met. Those relationships are where the real value of this partnership lives.

If you have feedback on the summit, I would love to hear from you.

Thank you again for your commitment, your candor, and your partnership. Together, we are proving that excellence can scale without losing the entrepreneurial spirit that makes it possible. We are building the category-defining partnership, together.

Download the presentation deck: LifeSpanMD Summit_2026 Deck

Harry