Physician (Part-Time, 1099), Blueberry Balance

About Blueberry Balance

Blueberry Balance is a virtual, pediatric-led metabolic health program for adolescents, built by Blueberry Pediatrics. We pair board-certified pediatricians with in-house registered dietitians and exercise specialists to deliver comprehensive weight-management care — including GLP-1 therapy where clinically appropriate — to teens and their families at home. Adolescent metabolic health is one of the most under-served areas in pediatrics. Most GLP-1 telehealth is built adult-first and gates care at 18, leaving families with elevated-BMI teens to navigate months-long waitlists at hospital-based programs or nothing at all. Balance exists to close that gap with real pediatric expertise and a holistic, family-centered model — never medication in isolation.

The Opportunity

The Practicing Physician is a frontline clinician on the Balance care team. You will carry your own panel of Balance families — running intake, reviewing labs, designing care plans with families, prescribing GLP-1 therapy where appropriate, and managing that care over time — all within the protocols and multidisciplinary model the program is built on. This is a part-time (1099), flexible engagement designed to grow with the program: it starts at a modest monthly commitment and scales up as the panel does. It's a strong fit for a physician who wants meaningful clinical work in adolescent metabolic health without a leadership mandate, and who is interested in building obesity-medicine expertise on the job. You don't need to have run a program or hold an obesity-medicine certification to do this role well — you need sound clinical judgment, genuine interest in this population, and the willingness to work inside a coordinated, distributed care team.

What You'll Own

• Patient intake and evaluation
  • Complete comprehensive patient intake for adolescents entering the program, including history, risk factors, and eligibility review
  • Order appropriate labs and review results, escalating findings that fall outside program guardrails
• Care planning and treatment
  • Meet with patients and their families to design an appropriate, individualized care plan grounded in each teen's goals and clinical picture
  • Prescribe and manage GLP-1 therapy where clinically appropriate, always within a holistic plan that includes nutrition and behavioral support — and know when medication is not the right answer
  • Manage ongoing care for patients and families over time: monitoring visits, dose management, side-effect and safety management, and adherence support
• Care-team coordination
  • Coordinate with other care team members — physicians, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, and health coaches — so each family experiences one cohesive care plan rather than a set of disconnected touchpoints
  • Follow the program's clinical protocols and escalation pathways, and surface complex or ambiguous cases to the Physician Lead

Experience You'll Need

• MD or DO with active, unrestricted medical license in good standing
• Comfort and credibility caring for adolescents and their families
• Interest in adolescent and obesity medicine, and a willingness to complete light onboarding training in weight/obesity management and GLP-1 therapy
• Availability of 20–80 hours per month, starting on the lower end and scaling up as the program grows
• Strong written communication; comfort operating in an asynchronous, distributed telehealth care team

Preferred Experience

• Board certification in Obesity Medicine (ABOM/DABOM), or a clear path to gaining certification
• Prior experience prescribing or managing GLP-1 therapy
• Experience delivering care via telehealth, and fluency with the workflow differences it demands
• Experience working alongside registered dietitians, behavioral health clinicians, and health coaches in a multidisciplinary model
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) or experience serving linguistically diverse pediatric populations

Time Commitment and Growth Trajectory

This is a part-time role, starting at 20–80 hours per month and scaling with the program's patient panel.