In the Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, issue of the Charlotte Business Journal, reporter Elise Franco and photojournalist Melissa Key profiled Tryon’s new leadership duo in “Tryon looks to ‘next iteration’ of medical practice with new leadership dynamic“

In addition to being an internal medicine physician, Dr. Robert Brownlee is the president of Tryon Medical Partners and chairman of the clinical governance board. Lindsay Muns is the CEO of Tryon Management Group, which manages Tryon Medical Partners’ day-to-day business operations.

Both leaders talked to the Charlotte Business Journal about growth and the “next iteration” of Tryon Medical Partners.

Below are excerpts of the story. Visit the Charlotte Business Journal website and sign in to read the entire article.

What is the next iteration of Tryon Medical Partners?

Muns: I think it’s really about growth and bringing the promise of stronger relationships and better care to more patients. That looks like growth through more physicians and like figuring out where physician extenders make sense while still having our doctors be the primary vehicle for care. It looks like more locations, potentially more specialties and maybe even moving outside the Charlotte area and figuring out where in the Carolinas we can make the kind of impact we’re trying to make.

I said yes to this job because of the reputation and the care I personally received at Tryon. As a businessperson, when you choose to go into health care, you’re not choosing that because it’s easy. You’re choosing it because you want to make some sort of difference and enable people like (Brownlee) to do the amazing things they do.

Brownlee: We’ve always felt passionately about the fact that physicians can provide better care and establish better relationships in an independent environment. We also really feel strongly that there can be some strength in numbers among the independent groups in the area, and we hope to continue doing what we’re doing while linking arms with others like us.

Why are your patients choosing Tryon over larger health-care systems in the area?

Brownlee: The quality of physicians we have is excellent, but it is also about the patient and physician relationship. Having that relationship and feeling comfortable with the physician is so important as we move more and more into a world where patients can just Google or enter their symptoms into AI. We do a very good job at that — not to say that others don’t, but it’s one thing that really resonates with our patients.

What are some of the biggest challenges you face in your current roles?

Brownlee: Being a clinician, in general, is a challenge. You find challenges no matter where you are. If you’re at a hospital system you’re dealing with people telling you exactly how you have to do things and you lose some autonomy there … at the same time, on the independent side, you get that autonomy, but it comes with sacrifices. The financial burden falls on you a bit more, and you don’t have a huge hospital system to support you. We are trying to balance that as much as possible. My goal is to try to get (physicians and clinicians) paid well and to try to keep their day-to-day life as happy as possible.