Published 12:00 p.m. Thursday, December 22, 2022
Dr. Raveena Nalla
By Angela Cutrer
Dr. Raveena Nalla is the caller endocrinologist successful town. Actually, she’s the lone endocrinologist successful municipality and Oxford is fortunate to person her. It’s been 4 oregon much years since the city’s had this benignant doc successful place.
“The concepts of endocrinology perpetually intrigued maine close from my [time in] aesculapian school,” she said of her aesculapian field. “My involvement successful this tract further accrued during my residency.”
Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nalla is simply a board-certified doc who specializes successful endocrinology, including the diagnosis and attraction of diabetes, thyroid illness and different diseases and conditions of the endocrine system.
“Endocrinology… has a precise wide scope, giving america the accidental to woody with wide scope of cases, addressing the concerns of the bulk successful today’s society, including the planetary epidemic of diabetes and metabolic syndrome, thyroid disorders [and] osteoporosis,” she explained of her tract of expertise.
Nalla attended Osmania Medical College successful Hyderabad, 1 of the apical authorities aesculapian schools successful India, and earned a MBBS, which is bachelor of medicine and bachelor of country aesculapian degree. She did her residency successful interior medicine astatine Monmouth Medical Center successful New Jersey, graduating successful June 2020. From there, she did a fellowship successful endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism astatine SUNY Upstate Medical University successful Syracuse, N.Y. Her superior ambulatory acquisition was conducted astatine the renowned Joslin Diabetes Center and she received further acquisition astatine the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She completed those studies this past June.
Born and raised successful India, Nalla is fluent successful English, Telugu and Hindi. She’s been with Baptist since October.
“My fellowship programme has provided maine a well-structured grooming situation to summation immense objective acquisition and larn caller advances successful this tract to go a well-rounded and much experienced endocrinologist,” she said.
So however did she extremity up successful Oxford? “I was looking for opportunities around Memphis, arsenic I wanted to enactment person to my family,” she said. “Then I learned astir the presumption with Baptist Medical Group successful Oxford and the request for an endocrinologist successful the area.
“My excitement to judge this presumption came from the tremendous request for endocrinology successful the portion and my information to service successful an country experiencing shortages of wellness attraction professionals successful this specialty.”
Nalla lives successful Collierville, Tenn., with her husband, who is doing his fellowship successful cardiology astatine University of Tennessee Health Science Center successful Memphis. That’s wherefore she said being located successful Oxford is cleanable for their family.
Luckily, she says she adores the country and its people, especially. “It’s been a truly large acquisition since I moved here,” she said of the region. “I similar the confederate hospitality and I americium learning the richness successful its civilization and history.”
As you would expect, her bureau is already engaged with appointments. “There is immense spread successful endocrine attraction successful this country and successful the Delta region, and patients are traveling for 1 to 2 hours oregon sometimes much to beryllium seen by an endocrinologist,” she said. “Diabetes [has go an] epidemic successful Mississippi and [a] immense economical burden. I judge I tin lend my skills, cognition and acquisition successful providing prime wellness attraction to the patients successful the community, [as good as] supply accessible aesculapian attraction for different endocrine problems.”
Nalla’s signifier handles diabetes mellitus; absorption of insulin pumps; glucose monitoring systems; hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, goiter, thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer; osteoporosis and metabolic bony disorders; calcium and parathyroid disorders; Cushing’s syndrome; adrenal and pituitary disorders; and hypogonadism and sex affirming hormone therapy.
“Timely diagnosis and due absorption of diabetes tin forestall life-threatening complications similar bosom disease, stroke, amputation and kidney disease,” she said. “I would suggest [to] everyone to support a steadfast manner successful general, with [a] steadfast balanced fare and regular carnal activity to forestall these chronic problems.”
She besides said that aboriginal detection of diabetes means amended results and possibly the avoidance of complications specified arsenic amputation. “It’s a chronic disease,” she said of diabetes. “Take your medications, unrecorded a steadfast manner – it’s amended to forestall alternatively than person to treat.”
As for moving for Baptist, she said “it’s been a large experience. Everyone is truthful benignant and welcoming [that they] made maine comfy from Day 1. We person an amazing, supportive unit successful the clinic.”
Nalla’s signifier astatine Baptist Medical Group-Oxford Endocrine Clinic is located astatine 551 Azalea Drive and appointments are by referral.
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