Sheila Chen, MD
Internal Medicine Physician · Princeton Longevity Center
Preventive internal medicine from a Fairfax internist with Direct Primary Care and palliative-care leadership
About
Sheila Chen, MD is the internal-medicine physician at PLC's Fairfax location. She earned her undergraduate degree at MIT, completed medical school at St. George's University School of Medicine, and trained in internal medicine at Rutgers Health / Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center. Outside PLC, she founded Dimensions Direct Primary Care in Fairfax and serves as Medical Director for JSSA Hospice and Empatia Palliative. Her public clinical voice emphasizes personalized care, patient education, prevention, and comfort talking through health decisions.
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What to Know
Signature approach
Chen brings a life-stage-spanning internal-medicine style to the Fairfax exam. Labs, history, risk factors, and patient goals are translated into plain-language guidance, with prevention and education at the center. Her Direct Primary Care and palliative-care roles add useful range: she is fluent in both long-term prevention and careful conversations about chronic disease priorities.
What sets them apart
- Continuum-of-care range. PLC prevention, Direct Primary Care, hospice, and palliative medical direction give her a broader care arc than a typical executive-health internist.
- Fairfax building overlap. Dimensions Direct Primary Care operates in the same Fairfax building, creating a local continuity story outside PLC.
- Patient-education posture. Her bio repeatedly emphasizes comfort, conversation, prevention, and education, which fits a full-day exam that can produce a lot of data.
Before You Book
- Care focus. Preventive internal medicine with a patient-education and whole-life care style.
- Split practice. Chen also runs Dimensions Direct Primary Care; book PLC visits through PLC and confirm which relationship you want.
- Location. She anchors the Fairfax exam day.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Credentials
Education
B.S., Molecular Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998)
MD, Medicine
St. George's University School of Medicine (2004)
Board certifications
Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Board certified to provide comprehensive care for adults across complex and chronic medical conditions.
Residency
Internal Medicine
Rutgers Health / Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
Years in practice
19
NPI
1548471675
Affiliations
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