Cliff Porter MD, PhD, is the managing partner and founder of Texas Direct Medical Care.  Prior to opening Texas Direct Medical Care, Dr. Porter was medical director for several urgent care clinics in Travis County.  Before settling permanently in Austin, Dr. Porter was an Army physician stationed at Ft. Hood, practicing full-service family medicine, taking care of all ages of active duty soldiers and their families, including retirees in primary care, hospital admissions, emergency medicine, intensive care, as well as obstetrics, delivering babies in the middle of the night. 

Dr. Porter served with 1st Armored Division, deployed to Iraq in 2011, and served part-time in the Texas Army National Guard as the senior flight physician for aviation (36th Combat Aviation Brigade).

Dr. Porter has joined the growing physicians adopting the Direct Primary Care model, revolutionizing primary care. Suzanne Self, PA-C is also a member of the Texas Direct Medical Care team.

I started in Oct 2019 after fighting everything wrong with medicine in both government (Army and FQHC) and corporate world (HCA). The bureaucracies deny their responsibility, causing to moral injury to physicians and undermining trust of patients. David Balat (the Director of the Right on Healthcare Initiative at the the Texas Public PolicyFoundation) told me about the DPC model in Jan 2019 and opened just in time for COVID. We remained opened and aggressively treated COVID, where corporate and gov’t clinics turned people away.

After his varied medical experiences, Dr. Porter is convinced that the DPC model is what is best for both patients and physicians. His practice in Austin has been so successful that he now has a second location in Buda, Texas.