Lending expertise in Family Medicine, clinical workflows, and EHR optimization

Why CaPER?

• Dr. Charbonneau supports the evolution of CaPER by ensuring our registry methodology seamlessly aligns with active, real-world clinical workflows. By lending his extensive experience in uncovering electronic health record (EHR) inefficiencies and addressing systemic physician burnout, his collaborative guidance helps keep our platform lean and frictionless. He ensures that CaPER successfully captures high-impact clinician and patient sentiments without adding to the administrative burdens that plague frontline care teams.

Professional Journey

• Dr. Gabe Charbonneau is a board-certified family medicine physician and digital health advocate dedicated to restoring the human connection at the heart of medicine. Practicing on the primary care front lines, he has spent over a decade experiencing firsthand how poorly designed technology, regulatory bloat, and operational friction directly compromise both patient care and clinician well-being.

  Guided by a mission to address the structural flaws of modern healthcare environments rather than merely treating the symptoms of clinician exhaustion, Dr. Charbonneau is the co-founder of Medicine Forward. This grassroots, physician-led movement unites healthcare professionals nationwide to reclaim the patient-doctor relationship and champion a future where technology serves as an enabler, not an obstacle, to healing.

  Dr. Charbonneau is a recognized speaker, writer, and consultant specializing in EHR optimization, telehealth development, and clinical workflow re-engineering. He is deeply committed to ensuring that the developers of tomorrow's medical software actively listen to the practitioners on the ground floor. He earned his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed his training at the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana, bringing an invaluable primary care lens to the intersection of data science and health equity.