About Dr. Maxwell
Rooted in Medicine. Driven by Innovation. Focused on You.
I am a family physician with 20 years of experience as a practicing physician, an educator, and a healthcare executive. I completed my medical education at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. My family medicine residency training took place at Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine, and I completed an additional one-year fellowship at ChristianaCare. I also have a master’s degree from Dartmouth College in Health Care Delivery Science.
After my training, I worked at ChristianaCare for 19 years serving in many different roles including residency program director, Chief Learning Officer, Chief Transformation Officer, and President of the ChristianaCare Medical Group.
I am passionate about primary care, innovation, and transforming healthcare delivery to better meet the needs of patients and the community. I have 4 sons and a husband who is also a family physician in Delaware.
My Story
Coming Home to
Care That Matters
Some people chase prestige. Others follow the crowd. I’ve always chased the harder path—not because it was expected, but because I love a challenge. It’s how I’m wired. I question, I connect dots, and I look for better ways. That’s what drew me into medicine—and what ultimately led me to fall in love with family medicine, even when the world told me not to.
In a Northeast medical school where primary care was undervalued, I watched mentors steer students toward more "respected" specialties. But everything changed for me the day I followed a family physician into an exam room and saw him ask an elderly patient not about her kidney function or her failing heart, but about her next craft show. She lit up. She handed him a crocheted animal. And within that joyful exchange, a relationship unfolded—one that allowed for the deepest kind of care. That moment was my “a-ha.” Medicine, I realized, starts with the relationship.
For the first decade of my career, I dedicated myself to educating future physicians. I built residency programs, led teams, and created space for students to find their own “a-ha” moments. Over time, I moved into system leadership—always driven by the belief that healthcare could be better. I led initiatives, managed through crises, and worked side by side with brilliant thinkers. I saw the complexity of health systems. I saw how they could help—and how they could fall short. I watched physicians burn out. I watched patients fall through the cracks. And through it all, I never stopped believing there was another way.
Now, after 20 years of working inside the system, I’m stepping outside of it—returning to the place where everything began: the patient-doctor relationship. But I’m doing it differently this time.
I no longer believe that the pivotal patient-doctor relationship can thrive in today’s insurance-based primary care model. Time constraints, coding systems, billing pressures—they all stand in the way of what truly matters. So, I’m exploring something bold, something personal, something that gives time and trust back to both patients and physicians.
I believe Direct Primary Care (DPC) is that model.
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