Meet the Physicians Behind the Carte Standard
A cohesive medical team built for n-of-1 strategy
At Carte, your care is led by physicians who act as your medical strategists.
We analyze your case deeply, coordinate testing, and engage the right specialist authorities with precision.
Our work goes far beyond longer appointments: we find answers between visits, drive each case forward, and make the high-impact decisions that change care trajectories.
Together, we combine diagnostic clarity, clinical judgment, and a rigorously vetted national specialist network to deliver care that simply does not exist elsewhere in medicine.
Your Lead Physicians
Ashley Alwood, MD
Physician Lead, Care Synthesis and Chronic Complexity
Dr. Alwood's work centers on complex cases with incomplete or evolving information. She is known for meticulous preparation, an ability to identify subtle patterns, and a talent for bringing structure to multi-factor medical puzzles. Patients trust her judgment, her calm under uncertainty, and her commitment to uncovering every relevant detail.
She brings additional depth in aesthetics, longevity, and evidence-based anti-aging care. Her clinical work is complemented by a lifelong dedication to tennis and a performance-driven mindset.
Dr. Alwood is a board-certified emergency physician who trained at the University of Washington and the University of Chicago, where she also served as a Flight Physician.
Her career spans the U.S., London, the UAE, and Qatar. She was recruited to help build two major hospitals in the Middle East from the ground up, leading Emergency Medicine, designing clinical systems, and collaborating with leadership to recruit and evaluate top global clinical talent.
Passion: Uncovering every last bit of data — and using it to reveal what others miss.
Gina Siddiqui, MD
Founder & Physician Lead, Medical Strategy
Dr. Siddiqui is known for diagnostic clarity, deep pattern recognition, and an n-of-1 approach to complex cases. Patients describe her as the person who finally connects all the pieces and moves their care forward when others have reached a standstill.
Before founding Carte, Dr. Siddiqui served as Chief Clinical Officer of Fabric, an AI care-enablement platform covering approximately 100 million lives. She previously designed ACO programs at NYC Health + Hospitals for their most complex patients.
Dr. Siddiqui completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in Emergency Medicine at Yale. She later left Harvard Business School to build the physician-led, end-to-end model of medical strategy she believed patients needed.
Dr. Siddiqui is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Virginia and George Washington University Schools of Medicine. She also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives.
Passion: Making focused, strategic changes that shift a patient’s long-term trajectory.
How We Choose the Specialists Who Shape Your Care
Most medical systems refer you out and hope for the best. Carte physicians do something different: we source, brief, question, and collaborate with specialists as part of a unified medical strategy.
Our model includes both:
- A rigorously vetted network of specialist authorities across 80+ fields
- Targeted sourcing of the right expert when your case requires niche, location-based, or emerging subspecialty insight
Before any consultation, your physician provides full clinical context, frames the key questions, and establishes what decisions need to be made. Afterward, they synthesize the specialist’s input, integrate it into the broader plan, and ensure the rest of your team acts on it. We do more than refer and consult. We raise decisions to the highest standards by engaging the right people and giving them the right information.
A Few of the Experts Within Our National Network
A small selection from the 80+ specialist authorities we collaborate with. Each has been chosen for exceptional judgment, communication clarity, and depth of expertise.
Thoralf Sundt, MD
Cardiac Surgery
Authority on complex cardiac disease, Chief of Division of Cardiac Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
Rhonda Patrick, PhD
Nutrition and Prevention
Prolific author and podcaster on healthy aging nutrition and disease prevention, Founder of FoundMyFitness
Joseph Ruzbarsky, MD
Orthopedic Surgery
Expert in Shoulder, Knee, Elbow & Hip Preservation, Former physician to the US Ski and Snowboard teams
Amy Zhou, MD
Pediatrics
Expert in pediatric preventative care, behavioral health, and nutrition, Best of California at UCLA Burbank
Saurabh Jha, MBBS, FRCR
Radiology
Specializes in cardiovascular imaging, policy screening controversies, and artificial intelligence in radiology
Lisa Sanders, MD
Internal Medicine
Nationally recognized for cracking complex cases, Director of Yale’s Long COVID Clinic
Carte Includes Best-in-Class Execution
Carte’s expert nutritionists
Provide medically aligned, evidence-based guidance on fueling, metabolism, and digestive health. They help you implement nutritional changes that support your physician’s strategy.
Carte’s expert physical therapists
Support musculoskeletal recovery, post-operative planning, biomechanical analysis, and pain science — always aligned with your physician’s strategic plan.
Carte’s health coaches
Help you implement behavior changes, refine daily routines, manage recovery, and maintain momentum — ensuring your strategy becomes lived reality, not theoretical advice.
White-Glove Support That Keeps Your Care Moving
- specialist scheduling
- medical record transfers
- imaging, testing, and referral logistics
- prior authorizations
- removing obstacles
- ensuring follow-through
Why Carte’s Design Works When Others Don’t
Most physicians excel within their specialty and within consensus. While knowledgeable, their care recommendations often don't fit your biology, risk tolerance, or goals.
Modern medicine is too fragmented for anyone to hold the full complexity of a person. Even at prestigious centers and high-end concierge practices, experts focus on their body part and their protocol. No one is designing specifically for you, in your entirety.
Carte does what no other system is built to do. We connect your data, expert perspectives, and our own independent research to set a strategy truly optimal for you. We then take responsibility for execution – ensuring the plan performs in your real life.
This is why Carte’s medical decisions and outcomes rise to a higher standard.
When You Need a Team That Thinks This Way
- No one is integrating all the pieces of your health situation
- You’re getting generic or conflicting advice
- Specialists are treating parts without consideration of the whole
- You can’t find or access the right expert fast enough
- You’re facing a decision too important for the rushed 15-minute consult you’re getting now
- You have complex, evolving, or unexplained symptoms
- You want a physician who leads and evaluates expert input, not just refers
- You need strategic oversight across multiple specialists, tests, and decisions
- You want a physician who is accountable to you getting better, not one who operates or prescribes and leaves
The Complimentary Medical Review & Action Plan
Meet with a physician for 30 minutes.
Leave with a clear, personalized plan for your next steps.
In this complimentary review, we assess your situation, refine your priorities, and show you what the right sequence of tests, treatments, or specialists should look like for someone exactly like you. Expect clarity, direction, and a sense of relief.
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