Naidu has passion to serve through care - Odessa American

Dr. Jayaram B. Naidu turns 80 Sunday and the interior medicine doc shows nary signs of slowing down.

“I emotion working. Therefore, I can’t retire. This is my passion,” Naidu said.

Interviewed astatine astir noon Dec. 21 astatine the Naidu Clinic, helium said helium would spot astir 15 patients from past until 4:30 p.m. Naidu added that helium has the champion staff.

“Without them, I can’t work,” helium said.

Some person been with him for an mean of 20 years.

“They became a portion of the household with the patients,” Naidu said.

Office Manager Mary West has worked with Naidu for 32 years.

“He is the astir giving and caring doc I person ever worked with. He has a bosom of golden and helium truly cares astir his patients and his staff. He is simply a humanitarian and helium cares a large woody astir our community,” West said successful an email.

Odessa Regional Medical Center President/CEO Stacey Brown lauded Naidu for his work to patients, the assemblage and hospital.

“Dr. Jayaram Naidu has practiced successful Odessa for 47 years. Not lone has helium taken stellar attraction of our assemblage during this time, but helium besides recruited galore different physicians to the Odessa community. He has consistently served successful assorted enactment roles wrong our infirmary and has been connected our Governing Board for galore years. Dr. Naidu has been a fantastic mentor to me, personally, arsenic good arsenic galore others successful healthcare. I americium truthful grateful for his galore contributions to Odessa Regional Medical Center and our community,” Brown said.

Dr. Jayaram Naidu has been practicing medicine successful the Permian Basin for decades and has nary plans to discontinue from practice. He said that portion of what helium enjoys astir from his patients is the connections helium shares with them. (B Kay Richter/Odessa American)

Naidu, who has treated generations of patients, said they person built relationships and spot his staff. He has done location calls for crab patients.

Naidu besides utilized to spell to the hospitals to spot patients, but helium stopped with COVID.

“I cognize that erstwhile I spot a patient, I don’t request to spell to the computer,” helium said, due to the fact that helium knows them truthful well.

“That gives maine restitution erstwhile I spell home,” Naidu added.

He gives patients his telephone fig a batch of times, but they don’t telephone much. It gives them information to cognize they person his fig and tin telephone if they request him.

In signifier present since 1976, Naidu has seen the aesculapian community, the level of attraction and exertion turn successful Odessa. He saw the archetypal MRIs, CAT scans, angiograms and introduced echocardiograms to Odessa. He started the cardiac rehabilitation halfway that is present portion of Medical Center Hospital disconnected State Highway 191 and Faudree Road.

He has recruited dozens of doctors and families to a metropolis that helium says has the champion radical ever. Naidu added that the doctors are precise good qualified.

There was immoderate absorption to him and his colleagues astatine the beginning, but Naidu yet won them over.

Naidu provides interior medicine, but has a peculiar involvement successful cardiovascular disease.

“I brought galore physicians to this area, possibly astir 20-22; I don’t know. The bulk of them worked with maine and past they went connected their ain aft moving five, six years. … When I archetypal came successful determination were lone 3 Indians. Now we person I don’t cognize however many, possibly 200 families. Among that astir 60 oregon 100 physicians … It has grown exponentially. … I besides brought my lad (Dr. Raja Naidu) to signifier with me. … He’s a precise engaged cardiologist,” Naidu said.

Over the years, Naidu has been associated with galore of the existent and erstwhile hospitals successful Odessa and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, wherever helium was besides an adjunct objective professor. He was portion of Alliance Hospital wherever they introduced robotic bosom surgery.

Naidu served connected the Texas Medical Review Board, and successful 2017, Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him a subordinate of the Texas Medical Board.

Abbott reappointed him until 2027.

He besides was connected the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force, which was a gubernatorial appointment.

Dr. Jayaram Naidu has been practicing medicine successful the Permian Basin for decades and has nary plans to discontinue from practice. He said that portion of what helium enjoys astir from his patients is the connections helium shares with them. (B Kay Richter/Odessa American)

Born successful India, Naidu attended Guntur Medical College successful Andhra, India. His residency was astatine Logan Memorial Hospital successful New York City.

Naidu has worked successful England, Scotland, and Logan Memorial, wherever helium was main resident, and Odessa.

“Then from there, determination was specified a shortage of physicians present they sponsored me. …,” Naidu said.

“At that clip I came here, they gave maine the greenish paper soon after,” Naidu said.

He became a national galore years ago.

“There was specified a request successful the Permian Basin. It was a roar town. … There were nary physicians. There were lone 4 internists. It was a 100-bed hospital, a tiny infirmary there. … I became truthful busy; overnight, I was busy. There was specified a need,” Naidu recalled.

He was told helium could get his archetypal spouse successful 3 months. As each doc arrived, they were booked.

“At 1 time, I had 13 doctors successful my group. … Then slowly, we brought much doctors (in). Now they’re each here. Now I enactment for the Steward (Healthcare System),” Naidu said.

He said bringing doctors to Odessa was 1 of the champion things to happen.

Naidu’s wife, Sujani, managed the session for galore years earlier her retirement. They person 2 children, a son, Raja, a cardiologist, and a daughter, Sulekha, and 4 grandchildren.