Dr. Ronald C. Best, Jr.
Founder, Clarity Health
Board-Certified Emergency Medicine · Shepherdstown, WV
For more than two decades, I practiced emergency medicine — first training at West Virginia University, then building a career across emergency departments and independent practice throughout the Mountain State and beyond, including the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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, chairing the Clinical Informatics Council for over a decade, and advising health technology ventures. I am comfortable at medicine's new convergence with technology and am ready to deploy my knowledge to improve our outcomes.
Over the past two years I have transformed myself using the tactics and therapies available under the Medicine 3.0 architecture. I developed a sense of clarity that I want to share with others. 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, proactively, and with complete data can fundamentally change the trajectory of a life.
Clarity is exactly what I believe every patient deserves: clarity about their data, their risks, their options, and their path forward. That is the medicine I am here to practice.