Meet The Team
Dr. Alexis Anvekar was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Although starting college at age 17 as a homeless student, she was able to graduate with honors from both UC San Diego and USC Medical School, where she was additionally the only person in her medical school to be awarded USC's highest honor.
Dr. Anvekar paid for college by working full-time and by receiving leadership scholarships for her leadership roles throughout college and medical school.
Her roles included Southern California Vice-President, Los Angeles President, National Vice-President, Editor-in-Chief of college newspaper, Co-Editor-in-Chief of medical school newspaper, Co-Founder of Student Organization for the Medical Awareness of AIDS, and creator of a curriculum in USC Medical School that continued decades after she graduated, Delegate for American Medical Association (AMA) and American Medical Women's Association (AMWA).
Dr. Anvekar received a national leadership award with AMWA given to the most promising female physician-in-training in the country.
As a senior at the medical school, she was invited along with the top 0.01% of graduating seniors to complete a coveted leadership fellowship called the USC Presidential Fellowship ran by USC's Marshall School of Business.
When in residency, Dr. Anvekar met regularly with politicians in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C. as an ambassador of the LAC+USC Medical Center and ally of the Angelinos in all walks of life served by LAC+USC.
She has been practicing since 2001 and was amongst the first in California to start a personalized type of healthcare service that mirrors the old ways of practicing medicine, now known as concierge medicine.
She chose to practice in Pasadena and started her own concierge practice in 2004 and is still practicing concierge medicine with Living Method.
Awards include Top Docs, Most Compassionate Doctor Award (given to top 3% nationwide physicians), Patient's Choice Award (given to top 6% nationwide physicians), America's Most Honored Professionals Award, LA Magazine's Top Doctors Award, Pasadena Magazine Top Docs Award, America's Best Physicians Award and Who's Who Among Women Entrepreneurs.
Being active in her community and fostering a love for charity in her children is a priority to Dr. Anvekar. She Co-Founded a group called "Kids for Change." This is a group of amazing local families who introduce their children to charity by purchasing, cooking and serving meals to the 50+ homeless men, women and children of the Union Station Homeless Services Family Center one dinner a month since 2010 until the children all left for college.
In an effort to do her part in furthering science education, she served as Chair of the Science Fair at her local elementary and middle schools from 2011 to 2017 with some students advancing to national competitions. In 2009 she founded Wild 4 Science, an after school enrichment program aimed at fostering a lifelong love for science in young children. Dr. Anvekar believes that by introducing children to the fun and creativity in science at an early age, they are more likely to enjoy and succeed in science in the future.
Dr. Anvekar loves traveling and spending time with her family and friends. She enjoys photography as her primary hobby and maintains roots in the mountains of her home state, Utah.
