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the physician

Raj Alluri, MD.

Board-certified in family medicine. Founder of Excelsior Medicine, and the engineer who built every system the practice runs on. This is the person you will see at every visit, in the portal, on video, and behind the technology.

  • ✓Board-certified · family medicine
  • ✓Every visit, every member, personally
  • ✓Built the practice's records, portal and assistant
  • ✓Grew up in Northern Virginia · opening in Reston
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the story

From Northern Virginia, by way of Queens and the Shenandoah Valley.

Where he trained, what he saw, and why this practice exists.

Raj Alluri, MD Dr. Raj Alluri, smiling, outdoors on a summer day
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  1. Home

    Northern Virginia

    Grew up here, with an early interest in programming and how systems work. College at Case Western Reserve University; medical school at the American University of Antigua.

  2. Clinicals

    New York City

    Clinical years on the wards of Brooklyn and Queens, in hospitals that serve the people with the fewest options. Where the habit of unhurried listening was formed.

  3. 2020

    Intern year, Elmhurst

    Internal medicine intern at Mount Sinai Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, on the floors at the height of the pandemic, in the hospital the press called ground zero.1,2

  4. Residency

    Full-scope family medicine, rural Virginia

    Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency, Front Royal: clinic, hospital, and everything in between, through the pandemic's aftermath and a community's recovery.3

  5. Practice

    Private practice and urgent care

    Joined a private family practice, then left it for urgent care with Inova, where he still works as needed. Saw what fifteen-minute medicine does to patients and to physicians.

  6. Now

    Excelsior Medicine

    One physician, a small panel, and a records system he wrote himself. Opening in Reston, late 2026.

Why he built it

Privacy first, vendor-agnostic

The AI genie is out of the bottle. The answer is not to pretend otherwise; it is to keep patient data with the people who actually see the patient, on systems the practice owns, and away from vendors who never meet you. Every piece runs on hardware the practice controls and swaps out without asking anyone's permission.

Why it matters

Taking family medicine back

Physicians gave up control of their own practices, and private equity moved in. Dr. Alluri's own training system is the example: in 2026 Valley Health handed its emergency and hospitalist staffing to a private-equity-backed firm and trimmed services, citing federal cuts.4,5 A clinician-owned practice on clinician-owned systems is the counter-move.

Sources

  1. Folmer K, Katersky A. Inside the coronavirus "Ground Zero": Elmhurst Hospital in New York City. ABC News, March 25, 2020. abcnews.com
  2. Coronavirus Update: Video Shows Dire Situation at Elmhurst Hospital, a Hot Zone for COVID-19 Cases. youtube.com/watch?v=tuuEVd46bYM
  3. Valley Health. Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency, residency graduates. valleyhealthlink.com
  4. Virginia Mercury. Valley Health changes staffing contracts, trims service citing "Big Beautiful Bill." April 17, 2026. virginiamercury.com
  5. MedPage Today. Special report: Valley Health replaces its independent emergency physician group with private-equity-owned SCP Health. medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/121757
A living sketch of it
one patient appointment, drawn as it flows through the practice's own systems — records, monitoring, your devices, your phone — nothing leaves the cell

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