Built by doctors who needed it themselves.

Board-certified neurosurgeon and physician leader focused on helping doctors navigate the decisions that shape their careers and lives. Dr. Nanney founded DoctorsFirm after seeing how often physicians were expected to manage high-stakes professional and personal decisions without real advocacy. His mission is to build the kind of trusted support system many doctors wish they had much earlier in their careers.

Angela Paddack is a board-certified Otolaryngologist-Head & Neck Surgeon. She has been in Private Practice in Boulder, Colorado for the past 10 years. Her husband is also a full-time urologist in town. Having navigated being a two-doctor household, in addition to the typical pressures of also being a mom, wife and business owner, she believes in what DoctorsFirm is able to provide. From buying a house, to help with contract negotiations, finding a financial planner, paying off loans, and handling negotiations related to medical leave, she can look back over her 10 years in practice and visualize where DoctorsFirm could have been a key ally in these issues and more. She has a passion for being a doctor, while not losing herself or her family to the profession. Angie acutely understands the stressors that are placed on us in the professional setting, and understands that personal demands don’t go away just because you are a busy doctor. Her goal in being involved with DoctorsFirm is to give doctors easily accessible resources that allow them to advocate for themselves, while having sound advisors in all aspects of life. This, in turn, allows them to focus on their family and patients. As doctors, our extensive training teaches us to put ourselves last. Angie believes that when we take care of ourselves and our families personally, we are better able to tackle the professional demands placed on us daily. With DoctorsFirm, that becomes a little bit easier.

Dr. Ianni Karampelas is a board-certified neurosurgeon originally from Athens, Greece who has carefully crafted a career path to achieve his goals and those of his family now and for generations to come. While working only part-time, he has been able to rise to a position as an assistant professor at MUSC, serve a community in need of good surgical services, craft a part-time schedule that provides him both financial and personal reward, spend half his time working and half at home in Greece with his family, and recently navigate America's immigration policies to become an American citizen. He is an expert in all topics pertinent to our nation's immigrant doctors.

Ian Nelligan, MD, MPH is a family physician and Executive Director of the San Francisco Free Clinic. He completed medical school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, residency in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF in 2013 and served as clinical faculty at Stanford School of Medicine for 9 years. Dr. Nelligan was the founding medical director of the Stanford Physician Assistant program and the Medical Director of Digital Health at Stanford. His work centers on teaching clinical medicine, expanding access to care for uninsured populations, and strengthening community-based health systems. Dr. Nelligan brings a wealth of experience mentoring and advising medical trainees and clinicians across the spectrum, from premed to early career doctors. Ian and his wife, who is also a physician, have still found time to align their personal and professional goals as they began a family together and learned how to build wealth through real estate and smart investing in an expensive San Francisco market.

Dr. Trista Reid, MD, MPH is a general surgeon and the program director of the general surgery residency training program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Reid has a tremendous amount of experience and interest in helping young doctors find their way as they come out of training. On a personal note, she has also mastered the art of being a mother, a wife, and has built a beautiful home with her husband. The alignment DoctorsFirm stands for is her way of life, 10 years into practice.

Dr. Pedro Norat, MD, PhD is an endovascular neurosurgeon who has crafted the blueprint many foreign doctors need to follow. Originally from Brazil and once a professional skateboarder, Pedro trained as a neurosurgeon in the well-respected academic program in Brazil and then decided to spend years at The University of Virginia completing both a PhD and a coveted endovascular fellowship. While on a visa, he has used all his hard work and persistence to build a wonderful practice, a wonderful life for him and his family, and has enjoyed the financial reward of his labors.