Dr. Cole Barfield

Chief medical officer

Dr. Cole Barfield has served as Chief Medical Officer of on-demand virtual care provider First Stop Health since 2024. As a board-certified Internal medicine physician, Dr. Barfield spent the first ten years of his career treating patients in inpatient, outpatient, and virtual primary care settings before co-founding and serving as CMO of Wellview Health, which later merged with SentryHealth before being acquired by First Stop Health in late 2023.

Woman experiencing stress, headache, and mental health issues.

Healthcare

Benefits Think Why AI alone won’t solve the mental health crisis

The real breakthrough will come when we stop treating mental health as a standalone benefit and start treating it as an essential part of how we care for people.

By Dr. Cole Barfield

June 17

Healthcare

Benefits Think It’s time to rebrand primary care for the next generation

To keep employees out of the ER and urgent care, easy access to preventative care needs to be part of their healthcare offerings.

By Dr. Cole Barfield

September 2