"John A. Blanchard, M.D. is a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) physician and CEO of Premier Private Physicians, L.L.C. He is recognized as an expert and national leader in the Direct Primary Care and concierge medicine movement. He speaks and lectures nationally, advocating for the improvement of health care quality and service through a direct financial relationship between physicians and their patients. He is the co-founder and Past President of the American Academy of Private Physicians. Dr. Blanchard is board certified by the American Academy of Family Physicians in the specialty of Family Medicine. He has full staff privileges at William Beaumont Hospital, where he completed three years of postgraduate residency training and served as chief resident. He graduated with clinical honors from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1996, and he graduated with honors from Michigan State University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Physiology."