Phillip Eskew

Philip Eskew is a DPC family physician and attorney.  His clinical interests are broad and his legal interests are narrow.  He is AOA board-certified in family medicine & OMT, Correctional Medicine, and Addiction Medicine with a CAQ in Occupational Medicine.  He enjoys teaching, whether it is with patients, medical colleagues, or legal colleagues.  He has given over 75 continuing education presentations at events hosted by many organizations including the AOA, ACOFP, AOCOPM, AAFP, AAPS, Docs4Patient Care Foundation, NY State Bar Association, National Commission on Correctional Healthcare, and others.  He founded DPC Frontier, an open-access legal and policy research site in 2014. His policy experiences include an AOA Health Policy Fellowship, AOA Training in Policy Studies program, AAFP’s Robert Graham Center Visiting Scholars program, & AACOM’s OHPI program. In 2015 he completed his family medicine residency in Pennsylvania and began serving a site medical director role for multiple state prisons in Wyoming.  Since 2016 he has also served as the VP of Clinical Development and General Counsel for Proactive MD, an on-site focused primary care clinic company headquartered in Greenville, SC.  He volunteers as general counsel to the Direct Primary Care Coalition where he routinely relies on his accounting & legal backgrounds to discuss federal tax & insurance laws.  His research has been published in many journals including the Journal of American Physicians & Surgeons, the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Family Practice Management, the Journal of Legal Medicine, and the West Virginia Medical Journal.