Sabrina Graham joins Panzer Family DPC as the practice expands its personalized approach to care.
More than a decade after training under Todd Panzer while completing her nurse practitioner education, Sabrina Graham, APRN, FNP-C, is returning to work alongside him — this time as the newest provider at Panzer Family DPC (direct primary care).
For Graham, joining the practice brings her back to an approach to patient care she remembers from those early years of her training.
“I knew how he practiced, how he interacted with his patients,” Graham said. “That was exactly what I wanted to be part of.”
Graham has lived in Ocala since 2009, when she began her career as a registered nurse at Munroe Regional Medical Center. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of South Florida in 2015 and became a board-certified family nurse practitioner. She has spent much of her career in family and primary care and is also an Army combat veteran, serving from 2001 to 2005.
Graham’s addition marks an expansion for Panzer Concierge Medicine, led by Panzer, a board-certified family nurse practitioner. Panzer said the decision to grow comes with a balance: reaching more patients while maintaining the time, access and personal relationships that have shaped his practice. Panzer Family DPC was the next logical step.
“If you’re going to hold yourself to not being as busy so you have more time, then you obviously can only take so many patients,” Panzer said. “Sabrina has the clinical skills and maturity to provide excellent care while providing patients access to their care when they need it.”
Creating Panzer Family DPC allows the practice to serve more people while maintaining the time and personal attention Panzer wants each patient to receive. Longer appointments, same-day appointments and direct contact with their provider are just some of the values direct primary care provides.
For Panzer, Graham is an extension of the philosophy that has guided his practice — building relationships with patients, taking time to listen and tailoring care to each individual’s needs.
Panzer was involved in her clinical training more than a decade ago and remembers being impressed by both her abilities and the way she connected with patients. In the years since, Graham built a career of her own in family and primary care.
“She just showed such great clinical skills and such care and such a personality,” Panzer said. “She’s a community person, just like me. She loves our community and wants to help our community and be part of it.”
For Graham, the move also offered an opportunity to practice differently. After years in traditional health care settings, she was looking for an environment where decisions were not driven primarily by checking boxes or navigating insurance requirements.
“I was looking for something different,” she said.
At Panzer Family DPC, Graham will see patients for primary and family care, general wellness and chronic conditions, as well as provide hormone replacement therapy. Women’s health and hormonal changes are among the areas she sees evolving as patients have access to more information and options than generations before them may have had.
“It’s not just hormone replacement,” she said. “There’s actually a lot more to it, and it can change lives.
For Panzer, bringing on someone he first knew as a student and now welcomes as an experienced provider makes the expansion a natural progression.
What Graham said she enjoys most about working with patients goes beyond treating a particular condition. It is seeing them become active participants in their own health.
“Watching them engage in their own health care and take control of their own well-being, their own goals, and being their own advocate,” Graham said.
That belief shapes how she sees her role as a provider.
“I’m your partner. I’m not your boss,” she said. “This is your body.”
Graham said every patient is different, and what works for one person may not work for another. A patient’s schedule, lifestyle, previous experiences and goals all factor into the plan.
“I have information that you don’t have. You may have information I don’t have,” Graham said.
She said the goal is to find an approach that is realistic for each patient.
“What is reasonable and realistic for you?” she said. “That’s where you start.”
Panzer said he wants to maintain that approach as the practice grows. He wants patients who may initially come looking for his name to develop their own relationship with Graham and feel confident in the care they receive.
For Graham, building that relationship starts with trust.
“If you have a problem, or you think it’s a problem, we’re going to talk about it,” she said. “Know that you can trust me.”
For Panzer, bringing on someone he first knew as a student and now welcomes as an experienced provider makes the expansion a natural progression.
“I know how she is because I helped in her training,” Panzer said. “Seeing her be available so that we can move forward and offer direct primary care to the community, I think, is just a natural fit.”
