Physician executive · AI founder · cartoonist

Healthcare’s hardest conversations, made discussable and decidable.

Peter helps medical groups turn leadership friction and clinician-led innovation into decisions and action.

Dr. Peter Valenzuela speaking on stage

Selected publications & media

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Speaking & labs

Two keynotes. Two labs.

Start with the conversation your organization needs, then carry it into a facilitated lab when the decision needs shared ownership.

Signature keynote

The Punchline Is Data

Original healthcare humor turns familiar tension into a non-defensive conversation about one friction, one owner, and a next step.

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Founder keynote

The Accidental Founder

What running medical groups taught Peter about building a company: a realistic path from an idea to a tested venture without abandoning medicine or leadership.

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Flagship lab · six weeks

Dyad Alignment Lab

A facilitated engagement that helps physician and administrative leaders set shared priorities, clarify who decides what, and leave with a 90-day action cadence.

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Cohort lab · eight weeks

Clinician Innovation Sprint

A physician-led sprint that turns frontline ideas into a scored portfolio, one-page pilot charters, and sponsor-ready decisions.

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“Peter was invaluable, leading a critical strategic planning process. His command of complex issues allowed him to successfully facilitate our meeting, eliciting insightful comments and engaging our members throughout the process. He is a consummate physician leader and professional.”

Tom Banning

CEO · Texas Academy of Family Physicians

A City Without Accidents book cover by Peter Valenzuela

New fiction · Mystery thriller · Coming soon

A City Without Accidents

The perfect city was built on a lie.

In an alternate 1973 Florida, a researcher’s death draws historian Elias Thorne and cryptographer Sarah Lin into the secrets of Meridian, a privately governed city designed to eliminate disorder. The deeper they investigate, the more they discover about the system shaping its residents’ choices.

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Healthcare & leadership

Books that extend the conversation

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Amazon Bestseller

Doc-Related

Healthcare comics, stories, and insights that expose the frustrations of modern medicine and explore how to improve it.

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Amazon Bestseller

Masterful Mingling

A guide to better conversations, drawing on history, culture, trivia, riddles, and ways to navigate small talk.

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Dr. Peter Valenzuela

About Peter

A physician who understands the work of leadership

Peter is a family physician and current physician enterprise president with more than 20 years of leadership across integrated health systems and multispecialty medical groups. Through his books and Doc-Related comic, he also uses storytelling and humor to examine the human side of healthcare.

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Stay in touch

Two ways to keep in touch

For organizations

Speaking and labs

Start a conversation about your audience, objective, and timing. Please do not include patient or confidential organizational information.

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For readers

Novel news and early updates

Request launch news about A City Without Accidents. Reader-update requests are sent to Peter for manual follow-up.