Dr. Heston joined the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health in 2026. He is a resident physician in training at the Family Medicine Clinic – Island East. Dr. Heston earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his Master of Engineering and Doctor of Medicine from Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Heston is certified in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
Dr. Heston's academic and clinical interests are in preventative medicine, healthy aging and longevity.
A Personal Note From Dr. Heston
I pivoted from my career in software engineering to medicine in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. I have never regretted the switch, and I love the opportunity that Family Medicine provides for longitudinal care. I believes that regular visits with your Family Medicine physician are an invaluable tool to understand the ways that diet, exercise, and medication can together treat and prevent disease. Some of my clinical interests include polypharmacy prevention/mediation, tobacco cessation, mental healthcare, osteoporosis prevention, and lifestyle medicine.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” - Benjamin Franklin
I grew up between Tennessee, North Carolina, New Zealand, Argentina and New Hampshire. I practice medicine in English and Spanish, and am literate in Russian, French and Portuguese. Some of my favorite books include Anna Karenina, Master and Margarita, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
"There are no evil people in the world; there are only unhappy ones." - Mikhail Bulgakov