Dr. Maya Alderton, MD
Family medicine — founder
Trained at UNC; fifteen years in large-system primary care before opening Alder to practice the way the textbooks assumed there was time for.
The practice
Built small so the visits could be long.
Alder opened in 2019 with a spreadsheet, not a mission statement: how many patients can one clinician actually know? The answer shaped everything — panel size, visit length, and a schedule with room in it for the day going sideways.
Clinicians
Three clinicians you'll actually get to know.
Dr. Sam Reyes, DO
Family medicine
Osteopathic training with a focus on chronic condition management; speaks Spanish, and the front desk does too.
Nora Whitfield, FNP-C
Family nurse practitioner
Leads the same-day sick schedule and the vaccination program. The clinician you’ll most likely see when you call at 9 a.m. with a fever.
Behind them: two medical assistants, two front-desk coordinators, and a practice manager — all of whom you'll meet by name, because there are only seven of them.
What we hold ourselves to
Four promises, kept in the schedule.
Thirty minutes for every new patient, twenty for every follow-up. A same-week appointment when you're sick. A human answering the phone during office hours. And a written, plain-language summary at the end of every visit — because advice you can't remember is advice you didn't get.
None of these are values on a wall. They are rules the scheduling system physically enforces, which is the only kind of promise a medical practice should make.
Access
Step-free entrance on the parking-lot side, exam rooms sized for wheelchairs and companions, and an adjustable-height exam table in rooms two and four. Interpretation available by phone in 40+ languages — tell us when booking.