Biograph, San Francisco Bay Area
Biograph's founding clinic sits in San Mateo, not in San Francisco, about fifteen minutes from SFO. You buy a year, not a visit: one six-hour day in a private suite running twenty or more assessments, then a report and a one-to-one review with a Biograph physician about three weeks later, then calls with a dietitian and an exercise physiologist. Core covers whole-body MRI, a comprehensive blood panel, DEXA and VO2 max. Black roughly doubles the price and adds coronary CT angiography, a low-dose lung CT, a multi-cancer blood test, brain health assessment, mid-year labs and a glucose monitor. Two physicians are named for this clinic, which is more than most operators of this size publish. What you will not find anywhere we read is a phone number, opening hours, or what year two costs.
The care team
Who would actually see you, and what they trained in.
Dr. Gilberto Hernandez, MD, PhD
Per the clinic: he "earned his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Highland Hospital", and "holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from California Institute of Technology, where his research on gene regulatory networks in injured skeletal muscle deepened his understanding of cellular repair, adaptation, and physiologic resilience." Before Biograph he was "a physician with The Permanente Medical Group in Oakland, managing a diverse panel of more than 2,000 patients", over "more than a decade in internal medicine and primary care". Biograph claims no board certification for him, and we checked no board or registry.
Dr. Jonathan Fu, MD
Physician, San Francisco Bay Area clinic
MD
Team, training and credentials as described by the clinic on its website.
What this clinic can help you evaluate or manage
Plain-language goals come first. The clinic’s named tests, treatments and programs stay below for people who want the technical detail.
The clinic frames itself around five disease pillars and says every test is chosen for clinical relevance and actionability, while repeatedly stating it does not replace your primary care physician and refers out for treatment. Alongside that sits an explicit performance layer: VO2 max, grip strength, movement analysis and an exercise physiologist.
Establish where you stand today, before symptoms show up.
The whole product is a single-day baseline: whole-body MRI, a comprehensive blood panel, DEXA, VO2 max and vitals, published as over 1,000 data points from up to 30+ evaluations, then repeated year over year.Find cardiovascular risk years before an event.
Clinic lists a coronary calcium score, coronary CT angiography, AI coronary plaque characterization, an ECG, an advanced cardiovascular blood test and hereditary cardiovascular disease screening.Catch many cancers at a stage where they are still treatable.
Clinic lists whole-body MRI as whole-body cancer screening, a multi-cancer early detection blood test, a low-dose lung CT and hereditary cancer gene testing, and states this "augments and extends traditional guideline-based screening protocols" rather than replacing it.Set a baseline now so change is detectable later.
Clinic lists a multi-modal brain health assessment combining imaging and genetics, plus brain white matter screening, cerebral aneurysm screening, neurocognitive testing, an advanced brain health blood test and a hereditary brain disease test.Measure the bone, muscle and fitness that keep you independent longer.
Clinic lists VO2 max testing, DEXA body composition, grip strength, a spine and musculoskeletal evaluation and video movement analysis, with consultations from an exercise physiologist attached to the results.Services explained
Plain-language groupings help make different clinic service menus easier to understand and compare.
Imaging, bloods and physical testing all happen at the San Mateo clinic on one day. The Black tier extends off site with an at-home sleep test, a continuous glucose monitor and thirty days of wearable tracking, and with mid-year labs. The clinic says plainly that it does not replace your primary care physician, and that it refers out rather than treating what it finds.
Named in the Core membership
The five assessments Biograph names explicitly for the entry tier. It publishes "20+" in total but names only these, so the rest of the twenty is not something you can check before you buy.
Black membership adds
What the higher tier adds, and it is a real jump: cardiac and lung CT, a cancer blood test, brain assessment, plus monitoring that continues through the year rather than stopping after the visit day.
Also on the published assessment menu
The rest of the published menu, taken from the clinic's comparison table. The table is meant to mark which tier each row belongs to, and those markers do not reach us, so treat this list as things Biograph offers somewhere in its programme rather than things you are certain to get.
What the blood work actually covers.
- Panel size
- Not published
- Areas covered
- Cardiovascular disease · Metabolic dysfunction · Brain health · Cancer risk · Quality of life
- Sample collection
- Drawn at the clinic on the assessment day. The Black tier adds mid-year labs.
- Who reviews the results
- "You'll review your results one-on-one with a Biograph physician", per the clinic, after the medical team synthesizes the results into a report. Consultations with a Registered Dietitian and an Exercise Physiologist follow.
- Turnaround
- The published journey puts the comprehensive results review three weeks after the visit day.
- Repeat testing
- Annual on Core. Black adds mid-year labs with a physician-led review.
- Included or add-on
- Included in both membership tiers; no blood panel is sold separately.
- Price
- Not published
Explore the complete published panel
Named blood assessments on the comparison table
Advanced Cardiovascular Blood Test · Advanced Metabolic Blood Test · Advanced Brain Health Blood Test · Blood Fatty Acid Balance · Nutrition & Micronutrient Testing · Women's Hormone Panel · Blood Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test
What the clinic publishes
What’s included
These come with the membership. They are terms of what you bought, not clinical services in themselves.
- A private suite for the whole six-hour day, with no waiting room
- A personalized risk analysis and report
- A one-to-one physician-led results review
- Ongoing access to the clinical team through the year
- A year-end check-in to evaluate progress
- Referrals to specialists, which the clinic says it facilitates locally and internationally
- Access to innovative clinical programs, on the Black tier
$500 non-refundable. Deposit to reserve your visit. Charged when you join. The Terms of Use publish it as non-refundable and say it goes towards the membership fee, with the remaining balance charged to the card on file 15 days before your appointment.
Every figure above carries the billing basis the clinic published with it. Prices reflect clinic-published information and may change. Confirm inclusions and current fees directly with the clinic.
Published signals beyond the physician
Clinic-level memberships, institutional relationships and published positions. Physician training and board-certification claims are shown in the care team above.
Practical information
Important planning details gathered from clinic-published information. Confirm anything that may affect your visit directly with the clinic.
Questions worth asking this clinic
Drawn from what the clinic’s own materials leave open. Useful for a first call or consult.