Consulting with Debra Durst MD

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Consulting

Clinical rigor, operational scale, and category dominance, applied where capital and strategy get decided.

I spend my clinical hours with patients and my strategic hours with the organizations and founders building what comes after the visit—the clinical protocols, therapeutics, devices, and healthcare enterprises that either scale under real physiology or don't. I sit on the side of the table that asks the second question, after the pitch deck has already answered the first one.

I work with a limited number of companies, funds, and medical practices at a time, in four capacities.

Debra Durst MD - Advisory, Board & Investment Services

Med Spa to Inc. 5000 Scale Architecture

For aesthetic clinic owners, founders, and medical directors: I advise on how to break free from commodity treatments and low-margin price wars. We restructure the clinical offering around high-ticket, high-retention sexual wellness, HRT, and regenerative protocol stacks—deploying the exact operational and clinical velocity blueprint that scaled RevitalyzeMD onto the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies in consecutive years (2025 and 2026).

Investment & Diligence

For funds and operators: I conduct clinical, pharmacological, and scientific diligence on longevity, sexual wellness, regenerative medicine, and precision health deals. I assess the strength of the underlying biological mechanisms, the credibility of claims against real clinical data, and whether the product or protocol will survive contact with a practicing physician who understands the literature. I tell you what the deck won't.

Board Service

Boards need one voice in the room that has actually practiced the medicine the company is building around. I bring 20+ years of high-acuity Emergency Medicine clinical judgment, pharmacology depth, and enterprise governance to board service, product direction, and patient safety risk management. Having founded and scaled an active, multi-million dollar Inc. 5000 medical enterprise, I translate between what laboratory papers claim, what regulators will accept, and what patients and clinicians actually experience.

Strategic Advisory

For companies and emerging brands that need clinical and scientific counsel without a board seat: I advise on clinical evidence strategy, provider adoption, protocol design, and regulatory-adjacent positioning. As the host of the SexMD Podcast, a frequent broadcast media expert, and keynote leader for women's and men's health symposiums (including hosting the regional premiere panel for The (M) Factor 2: Before The Pause at the JTV Auditorium), I evaluate a company's science and also tell you whether providers and consumers will understand and adopt it.

Debra Durst MD

Most clinical advisors bring the credential. Most growth advisors bring the theory. I bring both, with the operational scale and daily patient outcomes underneath both of them. I trained in clinical pharmacy and medicine at The Ohio State University before spending over two decades in high-acuity Emergency Medicine, so I read a scientific claim and clinical trial with the same fluency an operator reads a financial statement. Having built RevitalyzeMD into a multi-year Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, when I tell a board or fund whether a clinical protocol will scale, I am speaking from direct experience running an active high-ticket practice, not theorizing about someone else's.

  • Trained in Clinical Pharmacy (BS Pharm) and Medicine (MD) at The Ohio State University; 20+ years Emergency Medicine residency and clinical practice at MetroHealth Medical Center.
  • Founder and CEO, RevitalyzeMD — named to the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies in consecutive years (2025 and 2026).
  • Board-certified in Emergency Medicine (American Board of Emergency Medicine) and Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine (A4M / Fellowship in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine).
  • Host of the SexMD Podcast and RevitalyzeMD Podcast; frequent television and broadcast media expert.
  • Keynote speaker and host for The (M) Factor 2: Before The Pause regional premiere at the JTV Auditorium.
  • Active clinical practice—my judgment is current, active, and grounded in daily patient outcomes, not emeritus.

Work With Me

I take on a small number of board, advisory, diligence, and practice scaling engagements at any given time. If your company or practice is building in longevity, sexual wellness, or precision medicine and needs a rare combination of clinical judgment, operational scale, and real-world outcomes at the table where the decisions get made, reach out to discuss fit.