Inspiring Conversations with Dr. Sara Hammond of Aure Health and Dr. Lane Hammond of Windward Parkway Dentistry

Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Sara And Dr. Lane Hammond.

Dr. Sara and Dr. Lane, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
The Ultimate Prescription: How Two Worlds and Global Exploration Redefined Our Approach to Medicine
Our story begins where two different, yet perfectly aligned worlds met. Sara grew up in the Netherlands, speaking three languages and traveling extensively with her family from a young age, immersed in a culture that inherently values slow living, fresh food, and rich experiences. Lane grew up in small-town Alabama and Georgia, always deeply fascinated by history and culture, incredibly well-read, and possessing a natural, passionate perspective on the world.
When we met, we realized we shared more than just a love for travel; we shared a deep, driving need to create. We are both artists at heart. Sara has been an oil painter for over a decade, translating the beauty of the world onto canvas, while Lane possesses a rare, visionary talent for building and restoration. We don’t just consume the world—we shape it.
That passion for creation followed us home. We are dedicated homesteaders, pouring our energy into our own backyard, where we tend to our garden, grow our own vegetables, and nurture a collection of fruit trees. We handle our own landscaping, filling our property with climbing roses and flowers inspired by our European roots. Whether it’s Lane building a custom playground or laying a stone paver patio, or Sara bringing a design to life, we are never happier than when we are working with our hands.
This spirit of restoration became our greatest adventure when we fell in love with a 100-year-old stone home on the island of Crete, Greece, which we named Villa Jolie. We took on the monumental task of restoring much of the home ourselves, honoring its history while crafting a space centered entirely around the quiet wellness we believe in: slow village life, fresh regional ingredients, and a deep connection to the land. Today, we share that magic by hosting guests at Villa Jolie, offering them a literal taste of our philosophy—a place to unplug, cook with local olive oil, and truly reset.
These global experiences and our hands-on lifestyle completely reshaped how we practice healthcare. We realized that our creative drive is inseparable from our clinical work; both require patience, a keen eye for detail, and a refusal to settle for “cookie-cutter” results.
On paper, our day jobs look incredibly intense, but we bring these lessons into our work every day. Sara, a board-certified Internal Medicine physician currently completing her advanced board certification in Obesity Medicine, founded Aure Health—a high-touch, concierge telemedicine practice that serves patients nationwide. Lane anchors the dental care over at Windward Parkway Dentistry, where he is widely known for his top-tier restorative work and a uniquely holistic approach that treats oral health as the vital gateway to the entire body’s systemic wellness.
We love what we do inside our clinical spaces, but we also know that true health doesn’t start and stop at the clinic door. That’s exactly why we launched our blog, TravelScript.
We look at travel as a literal prescription for wellness. It lowers stress, challenges your brain, and connects you to humanity in a way nothing else can. Through TravelScript, we want to shake people up a bit—to inspire them to stop buying more stuff and start investing in life-changing experiences. And yes, we practice what we preach! A lot of people think travel stops when you have kids, but we’ve kept right on exploring with our little ones in tow. Traveling with toddlers isn’t always relaxing, but it’s an invaluable way to raise globally-minded, empathetic kids.
At the end of the day, whether Sara is treating a patient across the country via telemedicine, Lane is transforming a smile, or we’re welcoming guests to taste the slow life at Villa Jolie in Crete, our message is the same: the best preventative medicine isn’t just found in a bottle—it’s found out there, exploring the world, and building a life you truly love.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It has absolutely not been a smooth road. To get to where we are today required grueling, lifelong dedication from both of us, because we were both starting entirely from scratch as the very firsts in our communities.
I grew up in the Netherlands and moved to this country when I was eleven years old, but the transition didn’t stop there. As a family, we moved a lot. Even after arriving in the United States, I had to completely restart my life three separate times in different states before we finally settled long-term in Georgia. My entire youth was an exercise in extreme resilience—constantly learning new environments, adapting to foreign cultures, and figuring out how to build a life from scratch over and over again. I had to work ten times harder just to navigate the baseline school systems, let alone the path to medicine. I was the very first doctor in my family and my micro-community. While my medical school classmates had parents or relatives in the field who gave them a natural launching pad, I had to pave my own way forward through sheer grit.
Lane’s journey required that exact same independent spirit. He grew up across the state line in the small town of Eufaula, Alabama, and had no blueprint for a career in healthcare. He had to build his vision from the ground up, ultimately becoming the first dentist in his family and his close-knit small community.
For both of us, reaching the top of our fields meant sacrificing much of our youth to intense, competitive training without an established safety net. And that trailblazing mindset didn’t stop once we graduated. It took immense risk to eventually leave behind conventional, assembly-line methods to carve out our own paths—me in executive medical leadership launching Aure Health, and Lane providing comprehensive care at Windward Parkway Dentistry. We chose the harder, independent path because we refused to treat patients like numbers. We wanted to be better for the people we serve, and entirely present for our own children.
Constantly starting over as a child is exactly what gave me the ultimate tools to be the deeply empathetic, resilient physician I am today. It taught me how to connect with anyone, from any background. Those struggles taught us both to see the beautiful complexities in people, and travel became our ultimate outlet to celebrate that shared humanity. Paving our own way was terrifying, but it is exactly what allowed us to build a life centered around true wellness.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
In the American healthcare system, it’s far too easy for patients to be treated like a number, and our culture at large is often defined by a grueling “live to work” mentality. For us, the antidote to this burnout is creation. Whether it is Sara’s large-scale oil paintings—a passion she has pursued for over a decade—or Lane’s master-level talent for building and restoration, we believe that working with our hands is essential to the human experience.
This creative drive flows into everything we do, including our home life in Georgia. We are passionate homesteaders, tending to our garden, growing our own vegetables, and nurturing fruit trees. We handle our own landscaping, filling our property with climbing roses and flowers inspired by our European roots. Whether Lane is building a custom playground or a paver patio, or Sara is designing our living spaces, we are constantly crafting a life of aesthetic pleasure and health.
This obsession with restoration and “slow living” led us to a 100-year-old stone home on the island of Crete, Greece, called Villa Jolie. We took on the monumental task of restoring much of the home ourselves, honoring its history while crafting a space centered entirely around the quiet wellness we believe in. We are so proud to invite others into this space; our Airbnb listing for Villa Jolie allows us to share the magic of that restoration with the world. It is an authentic, hand-crafted space where our guests can unplug, cook with wholesome regional foods, slow down, and truly reset.
These global experiences and our hands-on lifestyle completely reshaped how we practice healthcare. We’ve divided our professional focus into specialized zones that together cover the complete spectrum of physical, oral, and aesthetic wellness:
Dr. Sara Hammond (Aure Health & Regenerative Aesthetics): I started my career as a conventional hospitalist, but it didn’t take long to realize that the traditional hospital system isn’t structured to actually heal people. Dictated by insurance companies, it creates a revolving door where patients return with the same chronic conditions. Two years ago, I left the hospital system to consult and help build digital healthcare startups, advising them on clinical programs and national compliance. But I quickly realized I needed to build my own vision. That is how Aure Health was born. “Aure” stems from the Latin word for gold, built on the conviction that your health is your wealth. We are a national, non-insurance-based, high-touch concierge telemedicine practice, linking patients to local hub clinics for in-person needs and direct specialist connections when required. Instead of a rushed annual visit, patients track their health continuously through wearables, lifestyle data, and direct, unhurried chat access to me.
Additionally, I bring that same eye for detail to my regenerative aesthetic micro-practice, which I’ve run for over five years. Housed directly inside Lane’s dental clinic, I completely shy away from heavy, artificial alterations or harsh lasers. Instead, I utilize regenerative therapies, precise injectables, and advanced biostimulators to work with your body’s natural biology, restoring volume and promoting true cellular renewal so patients look as naturally vibrant on the outside as they feel on the inside.
Dr. Lane Hammond (Windward Parkway Dentistry): Lane has been practicing dentistry for over a decade, anchoring the dental care over at Windward Parkway Dentistry. Widely known for operating with a rare level of absolute honesty, transparency, and clinical integrity, Lane treats the mouth as the literal gateway to systemic, whole-body health. He takes an immense amount of time counseling his patients, understanding their unique anxieties, and analyzing how their oral health intricately impacts their overall cardiovascular, metabolic, and sleep wellness. His approach to elite restorative care ensures that every smile he transforms is built on a foundation of long-term, systemic health.
The TravelScript Mission
We love what we do inside our clinical spaces, but we also know that true health doesn’t start and stop at the clinic door. That’s exactly why we launched our blog, TravelScript.
We look at travel as a literal prescription for wellness. It lowers stress, challenges your brain, and connects you to humanity in a way nothing else can. Through TravelScript, we want to inspire people to stop buying more stuff and start investing in life-changing experiences. And yes, we practice what we preach! A lot of people think travel stops when you have kids, but we’ve kept right on exploring with our little ones in tow. Traveling with toddlers isn’t always relaxing, but it’s an invaluable way to raise globally-minded, empathetic kids.
At the end of the day, whether Sara is treating a patient across the country via telemedicine, Lane is transforming a smile and building relationships at Windward Parkway Dentistry, or we’re welcoming guests to taste the slow life at Villa Jolie in Crete, our message is the same: true, vibrant wellness is entirely achievable when your doctors actually take the time to understand you, and the best preventative medicine is out there exploring the world.

Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
The single most important characteristic driving our success is uncompromising adaptability born from resilience.
When you spend your life navigating massive structural shifts—whether that is moving across the Atlantic from the Netherlands at eleven years old, completely restarting life in three different states, or blazing an independent trail as the first healthcare professionals in our respective families—you learn very quickly that you cannot rely on an established roadmap. You have to learn how to read the landscape, build your own connections from scratch, and find comfortable footing in completely unfamiliar territory.
This adaptability isn’t just something we bring to the clinic; it is the very fabric of how we live. We are creators by nature. We have spent over a decade honing our hands—Sara through large-scale oil painting and Lane through visionary construction and restoration. That “maker” mindset has led us to cultivate a life as homesteaders here in Georgia, where we tend our own gardens, grow our own vegetables, and design our own landscapes, filling our home with flowers and climbing roses that mirror our European roots. It is the same grit we applied to the monumental task of restoring our 100-year-old stone home, Villa Jolie, in Crete, Greece. We didn’t just buy a house; we breathed new life into it with our own hands, turning a historic relic into a sanctuary for others to experience true, slow-living wellness.
That specific lifelong conditioning—the ability to look at a blank canvas, a fixer-upper, or a broken system and see potential—is exactly what gave us the courage to step away from the secure, well-traveled paths of conventional healthcare. It takes a massive amount of resilience to reject a broken, insurance-driven system and say, “We are going to build a completely new model of care from the ground up.” Because we aren’t afraid of the unknown or intimidated by starting over, we were able to launch Aure Health, cultivate a cutting-edge regenerative aesthetics practice, and anchor a holistic approach at Windward Parkway Dentistry.
Stepping into our own practices allowed both Lane and me to finally deliver what we believe is the true gold standard of medicine: deeply personalized, unhurried care. We refuse to treat patients like numbers or pass them through a revolving door. Whether I am partnering with an Aure Health patient to map out their continuous, day-to-day metabolic wellness, providing custom regenerative facial rejuvenation, or Lane is taking the time to counsel a dental patient on the intricate connection between oral health and systemic wellness, our focus is entirely on the individual. We build actual relationships, getting to the unique root causes of our patients’ health rather than just managing symptoms.
Our knack for navigating the unknown is also exactly what fueled our deep love for global exploration. Having personally traveled to over 30 countries, we’ve mastered the art of uncovering the world’s most authentic, restorative experiences. Over time, that passion naturally evolved into a premium branch of our brand. People frequently contact us directly through our Instagram or our website asking for guidance, which led us to officially start custom-tailoring travel experiences for others. We now serve as dedicated design architects for people’s journeys, bringing that same hyper-personalized philosophy from our clinics into travel by curating bespoke, stress-free itineraries that allow our clients to experience true, life-changing wellness.
Our success doesn’t come from having a perfect, predictable launching pad; it comes from our proven ability to adapt, evolve, and entirely redesign an experience for the better—whether we are innovating patient care here in Georgia, hosting guests at Villa Jolie in Chania, Crete, or meticulously mapping out a client’s next global retreat. We don’t just survive transitions; we use them to build something extraordinary.

Contact Info:

• Website: Aurehealth.org and https://windwarddentistry.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travelscript7
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TravelScript7
• AirBnB: https://www.airbnb.gy/rooms/1414026025819798273
• Email: Travelscript7@weebly.com