Richard has an impressive background in healthcare, with a career spanning various roles and specialties. He grew up in Raleigh, NC, and moved to Charlotte in 2007 to pursue a career in nursing. He earned his Associate’s Degree in Nursing in 2010 and Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing in 2012 from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His early healthcare career included working in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte, and later in the Neuro-Trauma ICU at Mission Hospital in Asheville.

After nearly a decade at the bedside, Richard continued his education and earned his Family Nurse Practitioner degree from Duke University in 2019. Since then, he has practiced in urgent care and occupational medicine, where he especially values the personal connections he builds with patients and the opportunity to provide individualized, meaningful care.

Richard has a particular interest in preventive musculoskeletal health, injury prevention, and helping people maintain strength, mobility, and independence as they age. He believes healthy aging is about more than simply preventing disease—it is about preserving the ability to do the things that bring meaning, enjoyment, and quality to everyday life.

He enjoys working with patients to develop practical, sustainable approaches to health that fit their individual goals and lives. Whether that means improving or maintaining strength and mobility, reducing injury risk, optimizing lifestyle habits, or simply taking the time to have meaningful conversations about what it means to feel well, Richard believes that good healthcare starts with understanding the whole person.

Richard is grateful to be part of the team at Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville, where he guides and supports patients in achieving their long-term whole-health goals.

Richard lives with his wife, son, and their tortie cat, “Squish.” Outside of work, he can often be found riding, running, or moseying along the local trails, enjoying live music, and spending quality time with family and friends—what keeps his bucket full."