Fast Talks with Family Docs
The official OAFP Podcast
Meet your hosts!
Dr. Palmer is a board-certified family medicine, sports medicine and lifestyle medicine physician with Integris Health and is a core faculty member with the Integris Great Plains Family Medicine Residency Program. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and then completed the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center Family Medicine Residency and the OUHSC Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.
He previously served as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Deaconess Hospital in OKC and also served one term as Chief of Staff. He is currently Medical Director of the Great Plains Family Medicine clinic and is one of the two Oklahoma delegates to the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates. He also serves as a Colonel in the Army Reserve Medical Corps.
He is married and is the father of four grown children. In his free time, he likes to read, is very engaged with his church and teaches a Sunday school group, and most of all loves to roadtrip across Oklahoma and America with his wife.
Phil Palmer, MD, FAAFP
Veer Vedala, MD, FAAFP, Dipl. ABOM
Dr. Vedala is a board-certified family and obesity medicine physician at Norman Regional’s Primary Care – South OKC clinic. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, completed his residency at Wesley Family Medicine in Wichita, Kansas, and chose family medicine for the chance to build patient relationships and offer diverse care.
In his free time, he enjoys traveling with his wife, being a foodie, playing with his dogs, ballroom and Bollywood dancing, karaoke and keeping up with personal fitness.