Dr. Ellen Howard practices the kind of medicine that has become rare: personal, preventive and built around helping you feel your best for years to come. As a board-certified family physician, she returned to St. Petersburg, where she trained and now calls home, to open a concierge practice with the time to know her patients, not just treat them.

Her connection to St. Pete is personal. Dr. Howard completed her family medicine residency here and chose to build her practice in the city that shaped her as a doctor. She isn’t passing through; she’s invested in the people she treats, and she cares for women, men and families at every stage of life.

Her focus is on helping patients optimize how they feel and function day to day. She brings particular depth to hormone therapy, medical weight management and GLP-1 care, along with the preventive medicine that keeps small issues from becoming serious ones. She meets patients where they are and listens before she prescribes, building plans around the goals that matter most to them, whether that’s more energy, steadier weight, balanced hormones or simply staying well. Her style is practical and personal: clear, science-based plans that fit into real life and hold up over the long run.

People May Not Know: I chose concierge medicine because preventive care only works when your doctor has the time to go deep — on your history, your goals, your life. That’s what every visit looks like here.

That kind of care depends on time, which is exactly what the concierge model gives her. With a deliberately small patient panel and direct access between visits, Dr. Howard can work from the full picture—your labs, your history and your goals—and adjust the plan as your life changes, rather than rushing you through a brief visit.

“Her master’s degree in public health is something most patients never see but always benefit from. It shapes the questions she asks before she makes recommendations, and it’s part of why her plans tend to hold: she understands not just what to do, but why people actually stick with it.”

For patients across St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay, Dr. Howard offers a rare blend of clinical rigor, modern preventive care and genuine warmth. She is now accepting a limited number of new members who want a physician truly invested in their long-term health, and in this community, for the long term.