Choose Your Coach
Founder and CEO
Rhonda Crowe, BSN, MBA
Rhonda Crowe is a registered nurse, leadership coach, and the founder and CEO of MD Coaches. With a background that spans clinical care, healthcare operations, and executive leadership, Rhonda has spent her career helping physicians and healthcare professionals reconnect with purpose, navigate complexity, and lead meaningful lives.
Executive Physician Coach
Mrunal Shah, MD, ABFM, CPC
Dr. Shah has over 25 years of experience as a physician and executive in learning, coaching and medical affairs. He leans into this expertise to have the greatest impact on patient, staff and provider experience through empowerment, engagement, collaboration, and innovation.
Executive Physician Coach
Carla Rotering, MD, MA
Dr. Rotering is deeply committed to people–to their growth, upliftment, resilience, and purpose as they strive toward the best version of themselves in their professional and personal lives. She supports mastery for individuals and organizations by employing both experiential and introspective processes.
Executive Physician Coach
Cindy Van Praag, MD, NBC-HWC
Dr. Cindy Van Praag is a double board-certified physician in Anesthesiology and Integrative Medicine, as well as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She specializes in coaching physicians, with a focus on those navigating the demands of clinical practice alongside family life.
Executive Physician Coach
Dael Waxman, MD, PCC
Dr. Dael Waxman has been integrating coaching, well-being education, mind/body medicine, mindfulness, and family therapy into teaching, practice, and faculty development for over 30 years. He has taught nationally and internationally on physician burnout and well-being, mindfulness in medicine, physician-patient communication, and collaboration between mental health and primary care.
Executive Physician Coach
Rick Zollinger, MD, FACS
Dr. Rick Zollinger has more than three decades of experience in general, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery as well as success in multiple practice settings. Rick has been actively involved in education and leadership roles with surgical associates in North Carolina. With such a strong foundation of clinical and leadership experience, Rick brings invaluable insights to his role as a certified physician coach, providing solid support for the next generation of physicians.
Executive Physician Coach
Randy Cook, MD, FACS
Randy is a well-respected clinician, educator, and organizational leader, Dr. Randy Cook has over four decades of bedside practice as a general and vascular surgeon. The many years of clinical, managerial, and leadership experience have provided Randy with invaluable insight into the practice of medicine and medical practice management, making him a well-informed and uniquely situated physician coach.
