The people behind the practice.

Dr. Bharath Thankavel brings more than two decades of experience spanning clinical medicine, payer strategy, and health system leadership. He began his career as a Pediatric Hospitalist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he served as Assistant Professor and sat on the Medical Executive Committee.

Dr. Thankavel went on to build Children’s Health’s Home Care department, scaling it to serve over 1,500 patients before joining Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas as Medical Director of Value-Based Care, where he partnered with 31 ACOs covering 1.8 million members statewide. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Network Integration & Cardiovascular Services at HCA/Medical City Healthcare, overseeing 16 cardiac programs in North Texas.

He served as a Texas Gubernatorial appointee to the Statewide Healthcare Coordinating Council, a Board Member of the North Texas Commission, and is an alumnus of Leadership Dallas.

His expertise is in advancing clinical quality, aligning strategy, deepening partnerships, and supporting the teams who deliver care every day. His career reflects a sustained effort to understand healthcare from multiple vantage points and to use that perspective to build organizations that perform.

Pamela Westberg is a seasoned healthcare executive whose 20-year career spans concierge medicine, large health systems, and behavioral health. As Chief Operating Officer of Marquis MD, she brings a rare combination of operational precision, financial acumen, and people-centered leadership to one of South Florida’s premier concierge medicine practices.

Her Master’s degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology is the thread that runs through everything she does, translating the science of human behavior into real-world healthcare strategy, stronger teams, and better patient outcomes. This lens gives her an innate ability to see the full picture in any healthcare environment: the systems, the culture, and the human dynamics driving outcomes across the field.

Her practical experience spans concierge medicine, where she has guided practitioners from volume to value; large health systems, where she served as Director of Operations at Baptist Health South Florida and later as Chief Strategy Officer overseeing Florida’s mental health and opioid federal funding; and behavioral health, where she developed a deep understanding of what it takes to deliver care that treats the whole person.