Dr. Tan is a licensed medical doctor specializing in lifestyle medicine and mental health. He treats patients to deliver-person centered care by building relationships with individuals and their families.
Dr. Tan is an allopathic trained medical doctor and former intensive care unit respiratory therapist with 12 years of healthcare experience.
He started his medical journey as a respiratory therapist at the University of Virginia working in the neurological, surgical-trauma, and burn ICUs where he saw first-hand how trauma, grief, and loss wreaked havoc on the lives of persons and their families. These formative experiences led him to pursue a career in medicine, where he developed a passion for mental health.
He completed medical school at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and simultaneously obtained his Masters in Public Health (MPH) in health policy and management at Columbia University. Dr. Tan completed a psychiatry internship at Cone Health before starting his own practice. He continues his lifelong educational pursuits at various specialty conferences and training sessions all throughout the country.
Dr. Tan sees patients all throughout the state of North Carolina using a hybrid in-person — virtual model of care. He spends time with patients and others that may have an important contribution to his evaluation and understanding of the person he is caring for.
For every patient, he will interact with the primary care doctor and any other specialists involved in the person’s care to create a treatment plan that best fits this person. Treatment may include but not be limited to, lifestyle interventions, individual therapy, family therapy, natural remedies, and pharmacologic treatment that facilitate health and wellness.
As a devout Christian, Dr. Tan combines a faith-informed perspective of health and mental illness with his medical expertise, evidence-based data, reason, and common sense to provide psychological and spiritual healing.
When he is not seeing patients, he enjoys traveling the United States and internationally with his beautiful wife and daughter. He can also be found training in Brazilian jiu jitsu and dancing bachata and zouk at local events during his free time.