A physician-led, physician-owned network for pediatricians — peer convenings, intelligence, defense, advisory work, and clinical practice. Open to all pediatricians; founding clinical cohort is pediatric subspecialty.
Founding members shape what this becomes. Free to join. Invitation-only convenings.
Apply to Join →Most physicians recognize the texture of the modern system without having a name for it. Job postings that aren't really public. Criteria you cannot see. Layers of intermediaries between you and the people actually deciding. A benchmark, somewhere off-stage, that you didn't see, can't audit, and that will be cited against you when the time comes. A growing sense of being interchangeable, replaceable, billed against, and quietly ground down — while the work itself, the patients, the calling, remain.
What this system erodes is not just the physician's voice. It's the patient care that depends on having physicians who can think, decide, and advocate without permission slips.
— A note on what we believe —
A profession that takes care of its physicians takes better care of its patients. The two are not separate projects. They are the same one, viewed from a different angle.
Health insurers run physician networks — PPOs, HMOs, narrow networks. Hospitals and health systems run physician networks — ACOs, integrated care organizations, employed groups. Staffing companies run physician networks — locum rosters, credentialed pools. Each of these is a network of physicians built to serve someone else. The economics flow upward; the physician is the input.
Aligned Physicians is the same structural category — a physician network — but built the other way. It is physician-led, physician-owned, and oriented toward members. When the network negotiates with payers, employers, or hospitals, it negotiates for the physicians in it. As the network matures, additional functions and entities will form within it — clinical care arms, ACOs, virtual practice — all owned and directed by participating physicians.
Whether you want a peer society to keep you current and connected, intelligence on the contracts and benchmarks shaping your career, defense in moments of professional risk, advisory work alongside your day job, or a clinical practice on your own terms — there's a path that fits where you are.
Membership in the society. Monthly peer convenings. Access to professional development — grant writing, publication mentorship, AI and clinical technology updates. Mutual support among colleagues when life or career hands you something difficult.
Open to all board-certified or board-eligible pediatricians.
Compensation and contract intelligence — pooled, anonymized, member-owned. Peer-validated benchmarks built from member-contributed data, with published methodology and minimum cell sizes that prevent re-identification. Negotiation coaching for contract events. Mentorship for early-career physicians navigating their first contracts.
Member data serves members. Never sold. Never used against contributors.
Peer review and credentialing actions are typically delivered Friday evenings before long weekends, with 48-hour windows to retain counsel that most physicians don't have on speed dial — and that standard insurance won't cover beyond a $25,000 cap. By design, the trap depends on isolation and time pressure.
Members have access to a vetted panel of peer-review-experienced attorneys, an emergency response protocol with after-hours triage, pre-event education, and the documentary support that becomes critical in the first 72 hours. The same network supports members in malpractice scenarios where institutional defense counsel may carry conflicts of interest the physician was never told about — connecting them with counsel whose loyalty runs to the physician, not to the entity paying the bills.
We do not shield substandard care. We ensure physicians are not procedurally outmatched at moments designed to outmatch them. NPDB reports, open inquiries, and matters not yet adjudicated do not disqualify membership — they are often the reason for it.
Consulting and advisory engagements — such as work with pharma, and adjacent industries that benefit from physician expertise — for members who want non-clinical income alongside their primary practice. Routed by the network to members based on fit.
Compatible with most employed-physician contracts. Discussed on a member-by-member basis.
Clinical opportunities sourced and negotiated by the network on behalf of members — locum placements, independent contracting, and direct-to-consumer virtual practice. Founding clinical cohort is pediatric subspecialty; broader specialties added as the network grows.
Founding members may participate as equity partners. Details discussed in private conversation.
Aligned Life — peer-led wellbeing, retreats, CME-eligible educational gatherings, and the kind of community physicians lose when work absorbs everything else. Solutions for burnout that come from outside the system that produced it.
Aligned Capital — peer-led financial education, member-shared due diligence on investment opportunities, vetted introductions to fee-only fiduciary advisors specializing in physicians.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for children's health. The American Board of Pediatrics certifies training. The American Thoracic Society and the other subspecialty societies set clinical standards and publish research. The American Medical Association represents physicians on policy. Each does work that matters, and each was built around a mission that matters.
Aligned Physicians does not replace any of them. It is a different kind of organization — a network rather than a society, oriented around the practitioner herself. To defend the license. To grow the career. To pool intelligence members can use. To give members ownership in what we build together. To keep physicians current in a field moving faster than any institution can adapt to. Existing memberships are entirely complementary; we expect most members to keep them.
Better support for physicians is, in the end, better care for the patients who depend on them.
AI is reshaping clinical decision support, documentation, diagnostic imaging, remote monitoring, and the administrative burden physicians have absorbed for a decade. Most physicians are too busy practicing to keep up. Most hospitals are too slow to deploy what's already available.
The network is where members get current — through peer convenings led by physicians who have done the work, shared infrastructure for remote monitoring and wearable devices, structured introductions to validated clinical AI tools, and the kind of horizontal conversation that lets you learn in months what would otherwise take years.
This is not technology for its own sake. It is leverage that returns the physician's time, voice, and clinical judgment to the physician.
Monthly peer-led sessions on AI in clinical practice, remote monitoring, and emerging tools.
Shared access to FDA-cleared portable diagnostic devices and integrated platforms.
Vetted introductions to clinical AI tools that have passed peer scrutiny.
A small, deliberate founding group. Society membership is open to every qualified pediatrician; the founding cohort that helps shape what this becomes is more selective by necessity.
Send a short application. We read every one personally and reply within a few days to schedule a Zoom. There's no commitment — the call is informal, and you can decide afterward whether any of this is right for you.