The Cañon City Daily Record announced that in January Ryan Shumon Rahman, MD and his team will be providing their patients at Desert Family Medicine with a different care model entirely. He will be switching to Direct Primary Care.

What this [model] allows me to do is to be thorough, get personalized and in-depth information at an affordable cost, and then make an action plan to actually build health. I want to create a medical entity that is at a fair price and does real, personalized preventative, proactive medicine.I want to explain to people that there is a better option [and] it doesn’t cost that much.

Rahman moved to Cañon City alongside his wife Anna Chollet, MD and their two children in 2021. Previously, Rahman spent three years as a teaching physician at the University of Tennessee and four years as a physician in the United States Air Force and looked forward to a long and productive family medicine provider in Cañon City. However, by the end of 2022, he realized that the level of care he desired to provide his patients was not compatible with current medical insurance demands. and he is looking forward to introducing DPC to patients.

In his spare time, Dr. Rahman enjoys hiking, biking, backpacking and almost anything active and outdoors. Some of his other interests and hobbies include: music, gardening, DIY home projects, cooking, and meditation.