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title: Founders | Nextvisit
description: Faisal Rafiq, MD, practicing psychiatrist since 2008. Ryan Yannelli, health-IT engineer and T1D patient advocate. We host every demo.
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Founders
# Built by a practicing psychiatrist and a patient-advocate engineer.

Both of us still take demos personally.
        ![Faisal Rafiq, MD](/_astro/faisal_rafiq_md_headshot.xmzZbBze.avif)  Faisal Rafiq, MD Co-founder and CEO Practicing psychiatrist · 15+ years
Practicing psychiatrist since 2008. MD, Saba University School of Medicine. Psychiatry residency at Albany Medical Center. Founded Psychvisit in 2016: outpatient med management, psychotherapy, TMS, Spravato, ketamine, genetic testing, and long-acting injectables for bipolar and addiction. Still sees patients on Nextvisit.

> Sessions run 45 to 60 minutes and cover trauma, medication side effects, and therapeutic progress. There is no quick checkbox approach to psychiatric documentation.
 [Email Faisal](mailto:rafiq@nextvisit.ai)   ![Ryan Yannelli](/_astro/ryan_yannelli_headshot.ialLuuG2.avif)  Ryan Yannelli Co-founder and CTO Health-IT engineer · 15 years
Operations leadership at PointVoIP. Lives with Type 1 diabetes; runs an Omnipod Dash with DIY Loop in the open-source closed-loop community. Walks the Westchester T1D event annually. Hosts every Nextvisit demo.

> We're building clinical memory for behavioral health.
 [Book with Ryan](/contact)          Want to talk?
## We don't hand off demos to sales.

Fifteen minutes with one of us is enough to walk through a real visit. No slides.
  [Start in minutes](https://nextvisit.app/register) [Book a 15-min demo](https://nextvisit.cal.com/ryan/demo)