Alex Shink
March 4, 2024

Suzannah Bozzone, MD.

1. What's your practice focus and what kind of clients knock on your door ?

I am board certified in Family and Lifestyle Medicine. I solely practice Lifestyle Medicine with clients through my local practice in Chattanooga, and also in 7 states with the wonderful team at Love.Life Telehealth. My passion is public speaking to inspire and empower workplaces and communities with Lifestyle Medicine. I partner with employers to create employee wellness programs, and love working with groups. My clients: any patient, group, or community who wants to cultivate vitality.

2. Tell us about yourself. 

I love to foster joy in the journey to vitality and purpose driven living. I felt disingenuous working in the "sick care" system, driving dependance, and being unable to empower patients with the evidence of root cause focused, Lifestyle Medicine. While the transition to this practice style wasn't without struggle (loss of stability/benefits, etc), it is SO worth the joy and fulfillment of practicing authentically and empowering patients and workplaces with Lifestyle Medicine.

3. Tell us the story of a patient who you are most proud of helping.

One 42yo woman, who struggled life-long with her weight, hormone imbalances, diabetes, hypertension, anxiety, asthma, allergy, acid reflux & migraines. Her dream was to become a mother, but "being a patient" had become a full time job. Through 3months of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle support, she had lost 53lbs, stopped 8 meds (Diabetes, statin, 2 x GI meds , 3 x asthma/allergy), cut her SSRI in half, and her migraines stopped. Most importantly, she had the energy to become a foster mom.

4. What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a practitioner in private practice?

Getting health insurance for self and family as an independent contractor is incredibly costly, and hard to manage this and high physician overhead (malpractice, maintaining multiple state licenses, CME training, etc) with an unpredictable income.

5. What are the top 3 tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a private practice today?\

These would be my pieces of advice:


  1. Find like-minded community partners. (the YMCA, local yoga studio, healthy restaurants have been wonderful partners and we run educational programs together to expand our reach and expand the health community.
  2. Keep an open mind. It will never end up how you predict, but it will be BETTER than you can imagine if you are humble, open minded, and creative.
  3. Keep your focus on your mission/purpose. Don't spin your wheels on projects that aren't in line with your purpose. The money will come.

6. Where can people find you?

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