Emergency Medicine Physician
5923 Kingston Pike
PMB 128
Knoxville, TN
37919
Daniel Leverenz, DO, is a preventive care physician practicing at Watershed Medical Group in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is certified as an emergency physician by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and has been in practice since 2011.
In 15 years of practice as a board-certified emergency physician, Dr. Leverenz, in many respects, "has seen it all."
He views it as an extraordinary experience to reflect on the tremendous diversity of situations and forms of suffering that he's encountered through the years. He believes it is one of his life's deepest honors and privileges to stand ready to render competent and compassionate aid to so many people in moments of extreme crisis and fear.
As he has reflected on his career, however, an obvious and unavoidable theme emerged: The substantial majority of illnesses and problems he witnesses day after day in the emergency department need not exist at all. Forty-year-olds with young families are having heart attacks or going on dialysis. Fifty-year-olds are in nursing homes. People in their twenties, who should be enjoying the prime of their lives, are instead developing metabolic disorders that will haunt them for decades, blossoming prematurely into multifaceted diseases, years of unnecessary suffering, long medication lists, recurrent hospitalizations, and early deaths. People in their sixties are experiencing the consequences of inordinate frailty and chronic disease when they should be enjoying the fruits of retirement and time with their families.
None of this is inevitable. None of this is necessary.
Most of contemporary healthcare is based on a "rescue" model of treatment and intervention. "Treatment" often only begins when a disease is already present. Too often, nothing happens until diagnosis, and, like a perverse ouroboros, diagnosis can only occur when disease exists. In other words, disease is the activation switch that finally turns on the machinery of modern medicine. Before that, nothing happens, and the machine stays quiet.
This, in Dr. Leverenz's opinion, is far too passive. This is why he, along with two friends and like-minded partners, founded Watershed Medical Group.
Dr. Leverenz is passionate about creating and perfecting a new model of healthcare focused entirely on prevention, health optimization, and the reversal of disease and dysfunction by addressing their root causes. There will always be a role for rescue and treatment, but virtually all existing medical infrastructure is already devoted to that model, and there is little need for reinforcement. Watershed Medical Group exists to amplify a paradigm shift in the way we care for people: proactively, with the exclusive aim of keeping people healthy, not just trying to fix them when they get sick.
We have profoundly impactful ways of identifying risk, and we have learned a tremendous amount about how to keep people healthy and functionally optimized. Dr. Leverenz is obsessed with the idea that, with the right investigations, the right planning, and the right coaching, we can keep our clients healthy and robust even into their old age. He thinks about grandmothers in their seventies, strong and stable, able to hold their grandchildren for bear hugs and go for all-day hikes in the Smokies with their friends. He thinks about rewriting the script for so many of the young people he's taken care of over the years; instead of admitting them to the hospital for urgent heart tests or other interventions, he imagines them living robust, medication-free lives, playing basketball with their children and actively engaged in hobbies they love, feeling great and confident that their long-term health is taken care of.
Dr. Leverenz wants Watershed to have a massive impact. He wants our clients to experience profound, life-changing improvements in their health and reap the benefits of optimal health and function for decades. He wants to perfect this model, retooling and revising our methodology as necessary, and wants the model to spread and be available everywhere, for everyone. Health is so much more than just the absence of disease. It means that your body and your mind are strong, fully ready for whatever you're passionate about, whatever you want to do, whatever life throws at you. It means you get to live life on your terms. Dr. Leverenz wants this for everyone.
Dr. Leverenz lives with his three wildly beloved children in South Knoxville and is passionate about too many things to list: family, cooking, reading, whitewater, traveling, hiking, climbing, mountain biking, poetry, flowers, rivers, and safeguarding ecosystems are just a few.
Risk factor identification
Disease reversal
Preventive physical therapy
Body composition analysis
Sleep optimization
Gut health optimization
Cognitive assessments
Weight management
Metabolic health support
Comprehensive labs
Strategic screening
Patient Education
Chronic Disease
Functional Health Optimization
Nutrition
Preventive Care
Sexual Health
Mental Health
Genetic Screenings
Physical Therapy
Fatty Liver Disease
Location
Watershed Medical Group
5923 Kingston Pike
PMB 128
Knoxville, TN, 37919
More About Daniel Leverenz, DO
NPI Number
1821343096
Provider's Gender
Male
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