Who We Are
Nationwide access to plant-based lifestyle medicine.
Love.Life Telehealth is making plant-based lifestyle medicine available across the United States, using telemedicine to remove many of the barriers that prevent people from accessing this type of care. Using secure video conferencing and patient portal technologies, a doctor in one location delivers “in person” care to a patient at a distant site.
In addition to providing access to plant-based lifestyle medicine, we provide medical care for patients who have chronic disease and other medical conditions, including, but not limited to, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, autoimmune diseases, inflammation, and digestive issues. These conditions are addressed through lifestyle medicine – the powerful, evidence-based practice of promoting healthy behaviors and lifestyle modification, including a whole food, plant-based diet.
Individuals can expect improvement in and, in many cases, reversal of chronic disease by adopting a whole food plant-based diet and making other lifestyle changes, including exercise, stress reduction, improved sleep, tobacco cessation, and maintaining a healthy body weight. With lifestyle medicine, doctors care for the whole person at the root-cause level, strengthening the body’s immune system and often leading to improved health in multiple areas at once.
Doctors are now available to see patients in all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C., and for lifestyle medicine consultations internationally.
Meet our team.
Anthony Masiello
Co-Founder and CEO
Anthony has been working in healthcare for more than 25 years. His professional career started in the 90s at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) doing bioinformatics for the Human Genome Project. He later shifted into Research and Development at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, where he was interested in contributing more directly to the development of new disease therapies.
After transforming his own health, and learning there is a better way, he shifted once again and is now 100% focused on providing access to medical services centered on the prevention and reversal of disease utilizing lifestyle medicine rooted in whole food plant-based nutrition.
Anthony came to a plant-based lifestyle himself after being denied a 20-year term life insurance policy at age 33. He was morbidly obese, weighing more than 360 pounds, medicated for high blood pressure, and suffering from psoriasis, eczema, migraine headaches, and sleep apnea. Through the transition to a whole food plant-based diet and healthy lifestyle, Anthony lost 160 lbs. and reversed all of these conditions. He has maintained that weight loss, optimal health, and a greatly improved quality of life for more than 15 years and counting.
Anthony’s personal health transformation has been featured on the Megyn Kelly Today show, on PBS, in The Huffington Post, in the bestselling book Eat to Live, and by Forks Over Knives, Runners World, and numerous magazines, web sites, radio shows, podcasts, and articles.
Anthony was Co-founder and CEO of Plant Based TeleHealth, a national lifestyle telemedicine service focused on the prevention and reversal of disease with lifestyle medicine and whole food plant-based nutrition. In 2022, Plant Based TeleHealth was acquired by Love.Life, a national network of wellness hubs that is leading the convergence of food, medicine, and wellness for a one-stop transformative health experience.
Susan Scheponick
Patient Care Coordinator
Susan is a certified Mind Body Eating Coach, holds certification in Plant Based Nutrition from eCornell, and is a Licensed Massage Therapist. She has been working in the health and wellness field for more than 20 years.
We are absolutely thrilled to have her join us as our Patient Care Coordinator!!
Susan herself found a whole food plant-based diet in 2005, when she decided to give up meat and developed a new passion for health and wellness. She has since then developed an interest in supporting others in this healthy lifestyle. She is now excited to help patients all over the country to have easier access to the doctors at Love.Life Telehealth.
Michelle Plum
Clinical Manager
Michelle is a Registered Nurse who has been in the healthcare field for over 30 years. She earned her BSN from Kent State University and her Master’s Degree in Nursing Leadership and Health Care Systems from Regis University. Prior to joining Love.Life Telehealth, Michelle served as a Clinical Manager for Children’s Hospital of Colorado, where she managed clinical staff and operations for 28 surgical and medical specialty clinics at 4 sites.
Michelle has always been interested in nutrition and wellness. She started her journey on a plant based lifestyle in October 2021. At that time, she discovered Love.Life Telehealth and started seeing Dr. Niki Davis. With the help of Dr Davis, Michelle has stopped blood pressure medications, lost 50 pounds, and improved her lipids. Since making her own personal lifestyle change, she has become passionate about helping others to pursue their own personal journey to wellness.
Savannah Wagner
Patient Care Coordinator
Savannah is a communications specialist with experience in both fortune 500 companies and nonprofits assisting with philanthropy, communication, and business development. Her recent work as an intake specialist, supporting both therapists and patients, and prior experience with The Walt Disney Company, make her a valuable addition to the Love.Life Telehealth patient care team.
We are absolutely thrilled to have her as a Patient Care Coordinator!
Savannah initially switched to a whole food plant-based diet, including no oil or added salt, to support her parents with their newly chosen lifestyle. Being an avid meditator herself, opened her mind and grew her compassion, and she is now passionately plant-based for dietary reasons as well as ethical and environmental reasons. For fun Savannah likes to practice meditation and mindfulness, read history books, and play with her corgi, Nash.