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Health care that sees the whole picture and the whole person.
PrivyHealth was built on a simple belief: that lasting health doesn’t come from a prescription pad or a 15-minute appointment. It comes from understanding the full picture of someone’s life: how they sleep, how they eat, how they manage stress, how connected they feel to the people around them, and building a plan that works within all of it.
Being healthy shouldn’t feel like a second job.
The health care system was designed around sick care, identifying what’s wrong and treating it. That model has its place. But for the millions of people managing chronic conditions, or working hard not to develop one, it leaves a significant gap.
PrivyHealth exists to fill that gap.
The lifestyle medicine approach is grounded in evidence and informed by some of the most compelling health research available, including studies on the world’s longest-lived populations, known as Blue Zones®, whose habits offer a practical roadmap for building a healthier life. The six pillars of lifestyle medicine (nutrition, natural movement, sleep, stress management, social connectedness, and avoiding risky substances) aren’t wellness trends. They are clinically validated tools for preventing, managing, and in some cases reversing chronic disease.
At PrivyHealth, those pillars aren’t delivered as a checklist. They’re woven into a plan built around your life, your preferences, your constraints, and your goals.
Meet Dr. Granger
Dr. Eldesia Granger brings a perspective to this work that is rare: equal parts clinical expertise, public health systems thinking, and personal lived experience with chronic disease.
Her credentials span four board certifications: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Lifestyle Medicine, and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine. She also holds a Type 2 Diabetes Remission Certificate from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is a Blue Zones® Certified Physician. She earned her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her undergraduate degree from Duke University.
But her background goes well beyond clinical practice.
Dr. Granger has spent her career at the intersection of health policy, population health, and care delivery innovation. She served as a Medical Officer and Acting Deputy Director at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center), where she worked with states and clinicians on value-based care models and contributed to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program, a national, evidence-based lifestyle change program for Medicare beneficiaries with prediabetes.
She has worked with federally funded research and development organizations on health technology design, data ethics, and the modeling of health care delivery systems. She has applied that expertise to policy, program, and technology solutions advancing health care quality, health equity, and population health at a national scale.
She has been recognized by the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) as a leader in Minority Health.
You have access to a physician who understands not just how the body works, but how the health care system works, and how to help you navigate both.
She’s not just treating chronic disease, she’s living with it.
In 2019, Dr. Granger was diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA). That experience of learning to manage a condition that requires daily attention, and discovering how profoundly lifestyle factors affect outcomes shaped the way she practices medicine.
She has seen firsthand what it looks like when sleep slips, when stress compounds, when nutrition falls apart under the pressure of a busy life. She has also seen what becomes possible when those things are addressed with intention and the right support.
When she sits across from a client who is frustrated, overwhelmed, or simply tired of not feeling their best, she brings more than clinical knowledge to that conversation. She brings the understanding that comes from being in it herself.
Credentials
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine — American Board of Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics — American Board of Pediatrics
- Public Health & General Preventive Medicine — American Board of Preventive Medicine
- Lifestyle Medicine — American Board of Lifestyle Medicine
Education
- MD — Tufts University School of Medicine
- MPH — Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- BA — Duke University
Certificates
- Type 2 Diabetes Remission Certificate — American College of Lifestyle Medicine
- Blue Zones® Certified Physician
Residency
- Internal Medicine / Pediatrics — University of North Carolina
- Preventive Medicine — Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Leadership Experience
- Medical Officer & Acting Deputy Director, State & Population Health Group — CMS Innovation Center
- Principal Health & Life Sciences Advisor — The MITRE Corporation
- Principal Consultant — THE 5Ps, LLC (Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business)
Ready to work with a physician who has the time and the expertise to go deep?
The Meet & Greet is free, 30 minutes, and built around one question: is PrivyHealth the right fit for you? No pressure. Just an honest conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
Virtual appointments available for clients physically located in CO, MD, NC, VA, or NY.
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