Dr. Ronald C. Best, Jr.
Founder, Clarity Health
Board-Certified Emergency Medicine · Shepherdstown, WV
For more than two decades, I practiced emergency medicine — training at West Virginia University, then building a career across emergency departments throughout the Mountain State and beyond.
Emergency medicine is extraordinary work. But it is, by its nature, reactive medicine. Night after night, I watched patients arrive in crisis from conditions that had been brewing for years — preventable diseases that conventional medicine had missed, minimized, or simply not prioritized until a catastrophe forced the issue.
I realized I was treating the end of a story that began decades earlier — and that the beginning of that story was exactly where I wanted to practice.
Alongside clinical work, I built an expertise in clinical informatics — serving as Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer and chairing the Clinical Informatics Council for over a decade. I am comfortable at medicine's convergence with technology, and I deploy that knowledge into every care plan at Clarity Health.
Clarity Health is the synthesis of everything I have learned: the urgency of the emergency department, the systems thinking of informatics, and a conviction that medicine practiced early and with complete data can fundamentally change the trajectory of a life.