Offcall Columbus: Join Our First Offcall Connect Community Event!
Your Invited! Join Our First Offcall Connect Event!
Join us for the inaugural Offcall Connect, a recurring event designed to bring the community together for meaningful networking, referral relationship building, and clinical learning.
This month's featured discussion will explore an evidence-informed look at Peptide-Based Metabolic Care, including patient evaluation, current research pathways, clinical applications, and ongoing monitoring considerations. Hosted by Dr. Elena Christofides, Dr. Mira Massoud, and the team at Endocrinology Associates, this session will provide an opportunity to learn and discuss alongside local specialists who are actively working in this rapidly evolving area of medicine while also connecting with colleagues across specialties throughout Central Ohio.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Here’s What New On Offcall
Our team has been hard at work shipping new features to improve Offcall!
- Mobile App:
- A brand new referral flow including the ability to create draft referrals to send to other physicians later
- Ability to send an invite to a colleague (SMS, email, etc.) to join Offcall from directly inside the app!
- Add photos and custom welcome messages inside of group chats
- New blue profile badges for verified Offcall members
Check out the new features and if you haven’t yet, download the Offcall app here: iPhone, Android.
- Desktop
- New referral flow including draft referrals that can be sent later by you or your staff
- New notification panel for you and staff to be able to easily see activity inside of your practice workspace
- Smoother attachments and notes features inside of referrals
- Adding @ mentions in notes so staff can chat directly with other office staff
- New notification emails with clear action buttons linking directly to the Offcall dashboard
Check out the new features here and if you haven’t yet, sign up for the Offcall desktop tool for your practice here.
Download to join the waitlistMedicine 
is complex enough.
Referrals 
shouldn't be.
Send and receive referrals, build wealth, and grow your physician community with Offcall.
Case Study: How Auro Health Is Using Offcall’s Trusted Physician Network for Referrals
As part of our mission to lift up Columbus clinicians, each week we’ll feature a different clinician who’s having an incredible impact in the community and also passionate about Offcall’s mission. This week, meet Dr. Ujjwal Ramtekkar from Auro Health. Like what you read? Try sending him a message (or referral) directly on the Offcall app!
1. Ujjwal, what is the most frustrating part of sending and receiving referrals and building your network as an independent physician? The black hole! You send a referral, and you have no idea what happens next: did the patient get seen, did the office even receive it, did they end up somewhere appropriate? As an independent psychiatrist, I don't have a giant health system's directory or a referral coordinator chasing things down. I'm relying on fax numbers, outdated websites, and whoever a colleague happened to mention at a conference two years ago. And on the receiving side, I'm getting one-line faxes with no context, from people I've never spoken to, for patients whose clinical picture I can't fully see. The whole system runs on phone tag, outdated faxes, guesswork, and (a lot of) goodwill.
2. What made you decide to use Offcall as your new referral and networking solution, and what was the moment you knew you needed a better way? The moment was a patient, a high-performing professional, who I'd referred to an endocrinologist eight weeks earlier and assumed was being treated. She showed up to a follow-up still untreated, still struggling, because the referral had quietly fallen off a fax queue somewhere. Nobody dropped the ball maliciously. The system just didn't have a way to surface that the ball had been dropped. I decided then that I wasn't going to keep outsourcing my patients' continuity of care to a 1980s workflow. Offcall stood out because it was built by clinicians who actually practice, the testimonials are real physicians I respect and it solves the right problem the right way: a verified, clinician-only community where I can actually KNOW the people I'm referring to, not just their name on a directory.
3. When you think about the impact that Offcall can have on your practice, what gets you most excited? The community! Independent medicine doesn't survive on transactions, it survives on trust between clinicians who know each other's work, judgment, and values. Offcall is the first tool that's actually building that. I'm watching a real circle of trusted colleagues form across Columbus and beyond; primary care, specialists, fellow psychiatrists, people whose clinical reasoning I trust the way I'd trust a partner down the hall in a group practice I never had. That's what gets me up in the morning about this. When I plan to refer a complex patient, I want to be sending them to a colleague, not a directory listing. Offcall makes that possible for the first time.
4. What would you say to another independent physician who's still managing referrals the old-fashioned way? You're carrying a tax you don't need to carry. Every fax you send, every phone-tag voicemail, every patient who falls through the cracks; that's time and trust you're spending to prop up a broken system, and it's not making your practice stronger. But more importantly: you're missing the community. Independent medicine is harder when you're doing it alone, and Offcall is the first place I've found where independent clinicians are actually building something TOGETHER. It takes 3 minutes to join. Give it a week and you'll wonder how you practiced without your colleagues this close.
Read the full interview and learn more about Auro Health here. Want to be highlighted next? Reply directly or email Jake @ jake@offcall.com so we can feature you.
Highlights From Our Community
Each week, we celebrate career milestones, new publications, & other goings-on in the Columbus community. Have something to promote? Reply so we can feature you. Also: Try sending each clinician a congratulations message in the Offcall app!
Way to go Sandeep Palakodeti
Dr. Sandeep Palakodeti, CEO and Founder of Velocity Health, shared his insights on a panel called "Longevity: Scaling for Healthspan" panel at HCMIS with fellow innovators Dr. Rahul Khare, William Brennan and Neil Johnson. Learn more here.
They’re hiring, Geoff Omiatek
Director Geoff Omiatek announced that Orthopedic ONE is growing their Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine team, with open positions across central Ohio. Learn more and get in touch with candidates here!
He’s also hiring, Krishna Mannava
Vive Vascular Founder and Medical Director Dr. Krishna Mannava also announced that they are hiring. Learn more and get in touch here.
Great work, Ujjwal Ramtekkar
Auro Health’s Dr. Ramtekkar was published alongside Dr. Pamela Hoffman with a chapter examining the role of the full technology stack from telehealth, RPM, mhealth applications, CDS, VR and AI across the youth behavioral health crisis continuum. Learn more and read it here.
Bravo, Ryan Hedgepeth
Apex urologist Dr. Ryan Hedgepeth celebrated their members with the Apex Intimate Aesthetics Spring CO2 laser event. Check it out here.
Well deserved, Basil Kahwash
Ohio ENT & Allergy’s Dr. Basil Kahwash was honored by the Mount Carmel Health System internal medicine residency program as Specialist Physician of the Year! Congratulate him here.
Way to go, Christin Brown
Zangmeister Cancer Center’s Christin Brown was published in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing alongside Gretchen A. McNally about “The Role of Oncology Nurses in National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programs.” Check it out here.
Thanks for sharing, Dr. Kara Wada
The Immune Confident MD’s Dr. Kara Wada posted a heartfelt essay about her experience as both a physician and patient living with Sjögren’s and what she would like the pharmaceutical industry and others to know about navigating the disease. Read it here.
Incredible to see, Omar Ahmad
Neuro Animation CEO Omar Ahmad shared an incredible impact story from their brain therapy program: A patient who had fallen 27 times during her initial assessment was walking without a walker by day 15. Learn more here!
Great news, Nikhil Verma
Dr. Nikhil Verma announced that he is joining the Editorial Advisory Board at Orthopedics This Week. Congratulations! Learn more here.
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