The physician
Everything at Alternity rests on a single idea: that you should be cared for by one physician who knows you well enough to act on what he sees — and who is still there a decade later.
That physician is Desmond Ebanks, MD.
Desmond Ebanks, MD
Founder and Medical Director, Alternity Healthcare
Dr. Ebanks is a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist with nearly four decades of clinical experience across Internal, Age Management, and Longevity Medicine. He built Alternity around a conviction formed over that career: that the conventional system is built to detect disease, not to explain the slow erosion of function that capable people feel long before any test calls it abnormal — and that closing that gap takes a different kind of practice.
He earned undergraduate degrees in Biology and Psychology from Syracuse University, graduated from Temple University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Harlem Hospital — a Columbia University affiliate — and SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in New York.
Before founding Alternity, he served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at Cornell University School of Medicine.
Training beyond internal medicine
Trained to practice the kind of medicine residency does not teach.
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Physician Training in Age Management Medicine, jointly sponsored by the Cenegenics Education and Research Foundation and the Foundation for Care Management.
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Training in Mind-Body Medicine at the Mind-Body Institute of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
The concierge model
Depth of attention does not scale. So neither does the membership.
Dr. Ebanks built Alternity as a deliberately small practice for one reason: depth of medicine requires depth of attention, and attention does not scale. In a conventional patient panel of thousands, the physician who reads your data is rarely the one who knows your history, and almost never the one who will still be steering your care years from now.
Alternity is the opposite arrangement. Here you are a member, not a name on a patient panel. The membership is kept deliberately limited so that one physician can hold the whole picture of each member — evaluate it, act on it, and adjust it over years. It is a single, continuous relationship rather than a series of appointments, designed around the long arc of staying ahead of your physiology rather than reacting to it.
Memberships & affiliations
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LongevityDocs
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American College of Lifestyle Medicine
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Age Management Medical Group (AMMG)
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National Medical Association (NMA)
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Medical Alumni Association (MAA) Board, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
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Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Association
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