Sarab Alfata, MD
Dr. Sarab Alfata is a board-certified physician in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine who has been practicing medicine since 2008. She currently works with Community Health Network in Fishers, Indiana, where she has been part of the organization for the past five years. She also serves as lead physician for the Noblesville School District, providing care focused on prevention, chronic disease management, and long-term health improvement.
In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Alfata has developed an integrated lifestyle medicine approach called Life Plus, which she has been refining since 2018–2020 and is now expanding through an online platform to reach a broader population. Her approach combines medical science with positive psychology and mind-body coaching to help patients understand not only what to change, but also why long-standing patterns persist. She focuses on transformation rather than instruction, guiding patients with chronic conditions and weight challenges toward sustainable healing and improved metabolic health.
Dr. Alfata holds a Master’s degree in Positive Psychology and Life Coaching from Wittenberg University in Indiana (2024) and is a certified Mind-Body Eating Coach through the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Her work emphasizes awareness without judgment, shame, or blame, integrating behavioral change, identity work, and emotional patterns often rooted in early life experiences and subconscious beliefs. Through this approach, she has supported significant patient outcomes, including remission of type 2 diabetes, discontinuation of blood pressure medications, weight normalization, and improved energy and quality of life.
• Damascus University (Syria) — MD
• Whistlyn University - MS
• Board-Certified Physician - Family Medicine
• Board-Certified Physician - Obesity Medicine
• Mind-Body Eating Coach
• Master in Positive Psychology and Life Coaching
• American Academy of Family Medicine
• Board of Obesity Medicine
Areas of Specialization/Expertise
- Chronic Conditions
- Weight Management
- Behavioral Change
- Lifestyle Modification
- Mind-Body Medicine
- Positive Psychology
- Family Medicine
- Obesity Medicine
What do you enjoy most about practicing medicine?
What I enjoy most about practicing medicine is witnessing the transformation in my patients’ health and quality of life. For example, I recently worked with a patient in her mid-50s who came in with type 2 diabetes (A1C 8.8), hypertension, and obesity. Within a year in the Life Plus program, her diabetes is now in remission with an A1C of 5.2 sustained for 8–9 months, she is off all blood pressure medications, and has achieved a healthy BMI of 27. She shared that she feels physically and mentally better than in her 30s, with more energy and plans to run her first 5K. Stories like this are what motivate me most. I am passionate about helping patients improve not only their medical conditions but also their ability to live longer, more active, and more fulfilling lives with their families. I value the process of combining medicine, psychology, behavioral change, mindset work, and identity exploration to create lasting transformation.