Born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in Oklahoma City, Dr. Berland earned his undergraduate degree in mammalian physiology at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1996. There he coached a youth soccer team and enjoyed his volunteer work in the new Friends program for children at risk. The first in his family to enter the field of medicine, Dr. Berland graduated from the University of Oklahoma Medical School in 2000. He subsequently moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where he served his medical residency in Bayfront Medical Center's Family Residency Program, with distinction as chief resident. Dr. Berland is board certified in Family Medicine. His professional pursuits include involvement with the American Academy and the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. He has worked as a clinical professor at Bayfront Medical Center in the Family Practice Residency Program. Dr. Berland has been involved with the hyperbaric medicine program at Town and Country hospital, and is medical director of wound care at Westbay nursing home. In addtion, he currently holds inpatient privileges at Town & Country and Mease Countryside hospital.. He is also the medical director of Look Who's Kickin' 4-D ultrasounds.

Dr. Berland's special interests include sports medicine, cardiovascular medicine, weight loss, preventative care, scuba dive medicine, and cosmetic medicine. Now residing in Westchase, Florida with his wife Amy, he enjoys a variety of sports, including mountain biking, scuba diving and following Oklahoma football.

Dr. McConnell was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. He attended Siena College outside Albany in the combined B.A./M.D. Program in Science, Humanities, and Medicine before completing the eight-year program at Albany Medical College in 2000. During medical school, Dr. McConnell participated in service missions on the Navajo nation and in Maputo, Mozambique. He served his medical residency in Bayfront Medical Center's Family Practice Residency Program. Board certified in Family Medicine, he has been involved with the American Academy of Family Physicians on the state level. He is on the board of directors at Town & Country hospital.  He has active inpatient privileges at Town & Country and Mease Countryside hospitals, as well as Westbay Nursing Home.

Dr. McConnell's special interests include cardiovascular and preventative medicine, weight loss and women's health. He is a volunteer clinical preceptor at Bayfront Medical Center's Family Practice Residency Program, the University of South Florida College of Medicine and Albany Medical College. He lives in Citrus Park, Florida, with his wife, Veronica and their children Evan and Hanna.

Robert J. Porter, Ph.D., was born in New York and raised in New England. He spent his early career in New Orleans and moved to Tampa in1997. He was an Applied Psychology undergraduate major at Georgia Tech and received his doctorate from the University of Connecticut psychology program. 

Dr. Porter's experience includes 25 years in university teaching, in research, and in clinical service at the University of New Orleans and the LSU Medical School. He is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology and is internationally known for his research in communication disorders, for his applications of nonlinear systems theory in psychology, and for his research into the relation of body and mind in psychology, medicine, and psychopathology.

In 1997, Dr. Porter left academia in order to pursue advanced clinical training, and now has a full-time clinical and consulting psychology practice. In addition to his Patients First office, he has an office in Tampa Heights.  . He has taught and supervised students, locally, at Argosy University and the University of Tampa.  Dr. Porter lives in Tampa and has four grown children and two grandchildren. More information about Dr. Porter can be found at www.drbobtampa.com.

Raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Dr. Johnson earned his undergraduate degree in sociology and anthropology in 1969 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. There he played soccer for the Atlanta Soccer Club and was invited to the 1972 Olympic Trials. Dr. Johnson received a Master's Degree in Anthropology from the University of Georgia, a Doctorate in Applied Medical Anthropology, focusing on medical education, from the University of Florida, and a second Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Southern Methodist University.

Dr. Johnson started his career-long medical work in 1976 at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, where he pioneered the teaching of clinical behavioral science in obstetrics and gynecology and in internal medicine outpatient settings. He joined the faculty of the University of South Florida College of Medicine in 1979, helping to establish the Suncoast Gerontology Center and worked on the consultation-liaison psychiatry service at Tampa General Hospital, including primary liaison work with the High-Risk Obstetrics Unit. Johnson then taught from 1981-1989 in the graduate program in medical anthropology at Southern Methodist University, and facilitated a weekly support group for nurses in the Burn Unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas as part of his appointment to the clinical faculty in psychiatry. He coordinated training in primary care psychiatry for the family medicine residents at the University of Texas Family Practice Residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, and continued this work at the University of Alabama College of Medicine - Huntsville Branch, culminating in promotion to the rank of tenured Professor.

Dr. Johnson has been a member of Sigma Xi, the national scientific honorary society, and his research has included strategies to reduce pain in burn care, the process of medical education, physician-patient interaction, premenstrual syndrome, physician impairment, stillbirths in high-risk obstetrics, and AIDS. Dr. Johnson is the author of over 60 professional publications, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education, and served as a consultant to numerous local and national health care organizations. He also was editor of the Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the official publication of the Society for Medical Anthropology, from 1982-1986, and was elected President of that Society from 1993-1995.

Dr. Johnson returned to Florida in 1998, where he helped start the University of South Florida Family Medicine Residency Program at Morton Plant Hospital,.He also teaches graduate psychology courses at Argosy University - Tampa, and is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the USF College of Medicine. Licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in Florida, Dr. Johnson's areas of clinical expertise are diagnostic interviewing, medical-psychiatric comorbidity, anxiety/mood disorders, child behavior problems, ADHD in children and adults, somatization, personality disorders, psychopharmacology, bereavement, and family/couples therapy.

Born in Michigan and raised in North Carolina, Bobbie attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology. In 1989, she graduated from the Physician Assistant  Program at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She has 19 years of experience including Internal Medicine, Trauma, Surgery and has spent the last ten years working in Cardiovascular Medicine. Bobbie and her husband, Aaron, reside in Tampa with their daughters, Hannah and Abigail. Her particular interests include cardiovascular and preventative medicine.