Rebekah Bernard

Dr. Rebekah Bernard, MD, FAAFP is a family physician and the owner of Gulf Coast Direct Primary Care in Fort Myers, FL. She earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Florida and her MD from the University of Miami. She completed a residency in Family Medicine at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida, and was board certified in 2002. After serving six years as a National Health Service Corps scholar in Immokalee, FL, she worked in outpatient hospital practice before converting her practice to Direct Primary Care in 2016. Dr. Bernard is a nationally recognized speaker on physician‑led care, author of four books, and an advocate for the DPC model, emphasizing personalized, high‑quality, affordable primary care.