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Internal Medicine Chattanooga Faculty

Key Leadership

Harish Manyam, MD

Harish Manyam, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine
Erlanger Chief of Cardiology
Harish.Manyam@erlanger.org

Dr. Manyam received his training at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals (2012-2014) and stayed there as faculty and Assistant Professor of Medicine from 2013-2016. He served as the Head of the Lead Extraction Program at University Hospitals Case Western Reserve prior to joining the UT Cardiology group.

Dr. Manyam currently holds the position of Chair for the UT College of Medicine - Chattanooga.  He is also Chief of Cardiology at Erlanger. Dr. Manyam is actively involved with multiple research trials including monitoring the recurrence of atrial fibrillation, optimizing programing options in patients with biventricular defibrillators, and the assessment of lead extraction risk.

He has extensive experience in complex ablation (atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia), laser lead extraction, and device implantation.

Education and Credentials:  

MD:  American University - Netherland Antilles
Residency: Internal Medicine - Allegheny General Hospital - Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship:  Cardiovascular Disease - Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship:  Electrophysiology - Case Western Reserve University Hospitals,
                    Cleveland, OH

Clinical Interests:

  • AFib
  • Electrophysiology
  • Complex Ablation (Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia)
  • Laser Lead Extraction

 

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L. Curtis Cary, MD, FAAP, MRCP-London
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Program Director and Resident Liaison, Pediatrics Residency
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics
 
  • Hometown: Louisville, KY
  • Medical School: University of Kentucky
  • Residency: University of Kentucky (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics)
  • Interests: Medical Education, Advocacy, Parasitology

Dr. Cary is from Louisville, KY and attended Western High School located in southwest Louisville. He attended Western Kentucky University for undergraduate studies majoring in history and biology. He attended medical school at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics serving as chief resident during his final year and subsequently served as chief resident of pediatrics following his MedPeds residency training. He worked for UKHealthcare from 2008 - 2017 serving in many roles including MedPeds residency program director and as Master Educator. Dr. Cary joined Erlanger Health System in the spring of 2017 and assumed the program director role for Internal Medicine the following year. His clinical time is split between hospital medicine for both internal medicine and pediatrics. When not at work, Dr. Cary spends time with his family, participating in global health brigades to South America, and going to Disney World


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Maria Tudor, DO
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Maria.Tudor@erlanger.org
Academic Department Phone:  423.778.2998
 
  • Hometown: 
  • Medical School: Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Residency: University of Tennessee College of Medicine - Chattanooga (Internal Medicine)
  • Practice:  General Internal Medicine and Hospitalist Medicine

Dr. Tudor trained at the UT College of Medicine - Chattanooga and completed the three-year Internal Medicine Residency at the end of June, 2006.  She remained in the Chattanooga area to practice as a Hospitalist.  She has served as an active member of the faculty and advisor to numerous residents in the program..  As of July 1, 2024, Dr. Tudor has assumed the position of Associate Program Director for our Internal Medicine Residency.  We are look forward to her growing role in this primary care residency. 


Kiriti Vattikonda, DO, Instructor/Admin Chief Resident

Kiriti Vattikonda, DO
Instructor/Administrative Chief Resident
Department of Medicine
email: kiriti.vattikonda@erlanger.org
Academic Department Phone:  423.778.2998 

Dr. Vattikonda joined the Internal Medicine Residency Program on July 1, 2024, following completion of his Internal Medicine Residency at the Carilion Clinic - Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Program on June 30, 2024.  We are pleased to welcome him as our new faculty member -- Instructor/Administrative Chief Resident for our Internal Medicine Program.

 


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Dharmendra Patel, MD
Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Dharmendra Patel, M.D. is the Program Director for our Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and leader in the Erlanger Heart and Lung Institute. He is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease and specializes in general cardiology and multimodality cardiovascular imaging. Dr. Patel received his medical degree from the Government Medical College in India and completed an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular disease fellowship at Ochsner Clinic Foundation. Prior to joining Erlanger, Dr. Patel served as chief cardiology fellow during his fellowship training at Ochsner.

Dr. Patel's specialties include:

Cardiovascular Disease
Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography
Nuclear Cardiology

Education/Credentials:

Medical Degree:  Government Medical College
Residency: Ochsner Clinic Foundation (Internal Medicine)
Fellowship:  Ochsner Clinic Foundation (Cardiovascular Disease))


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Arslan Kahloon, MD
Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship

Associate Professor,  Department of Medicine

Arslan Kahloon, MD, is the Program Director for our Gastroenterology Fellowship and leader in the Erlanger Gastroenterology Group. He is board-certified and fellowship-trained in Gastroenterology with a specialty in diseases of the liver. Dr. Kahloon earned his medical degree at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and his fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Indiana University School of Medicine.

 

Radhika Shah, MD, Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship

Radhika Shah, MD
Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
email:  Radhika.Shah@erlanger.org 
Academic Department Phone:  423.778.2998

  • Hometown: Warwick, NY
    Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
    Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital (Internal Medicine)
    Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship
    Interests: Medical Education, Point of Care Ultrasound, Simulation

Dr. Shah grew up in upstate New York close to New Jersey and just outside of New York City. She Then attended the College of New Jersey and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Where she completed a combined 7 year BA/MD program with a major in biology and minor in finance. She subsequently completed her Internal Medicine residency where her interest in medical education began. During her Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Her scholarly activity focused on simulation curriculum and she served as chief fellow her last year for educational activities.

Dr. Shah joined Erlanger Health System in the fall of 2017. Her clinical responsibilities include Medical Intensive Care Unit, Pulmonary outpatient clinic, and Pulmonary inpatient consult service. She joined the UTCOM Chattanooga Internal Medicine Residency program as Associate Program Director in the summer of 2018 where she focused on simulation curriculum, point of care, ultrasound education, ICU education, and residency evaluation process.

She has now been appointed as the Program Director for our new Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship (3 years for graduates of an Internal Medicine Residency), sponsored by our Internal Medicine Residency Program.  She led efforts to establish the new program and was awarded Initial Accreditation and approved for 2 Fellows at each level of training from the Internal Medicine RRC as of January 19, 2024.  The program will be recruiting in the late summer 2024 for the first two fellows to begin training July 1, 2025.

When Dr. Shah is not working she loves to cook, spend time with her family, watch movies, run, and listen to new music.

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Patrick Koo, MD
Clerkship Director, Department of Medicine (Medical and PA Students)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine 
Specialty:  Respirator, Pulmonary, and Critical Care

Dr. Patrick Koo, fellowship trained pulmonologist, is the Internal Medicine Clerkship Director for the Department of Medicine and oversees third and fourth year medical students rotating in required rotations in Internal Medicine and its subspecialties.

He is now accepting patients at UT Erlanger Respiratory and Critical Care. Dr. Koo received his medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center before completing Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship training at Brown University. He specializes in research and treatment of sleep disorders, lung cancer, diaphragm disease, asthma, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, (COPD). Dr. Koo also serves as Medical Director of Erlanger's Pulmonary Function Lab.

Education/Credentials:

  • MD:  Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica, West Indies
  • Residency:  University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
  • Clinical and Research Fellowships:  Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI

Clinical Interests:

  • Sleep Disorders
  • Lung Cancer
  • Diaphragm Disease
  • Asthma
  • COPD

Allergy and Immunology 

Susan Raschal, DO
Clinical Assistant Professor

Cardiovascular Disease

Harish Manyam, MD
Division Chief, Cardiovascular Disease
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine

Dharmendra Patel, MD
Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Diana Alvarez, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

William Blalock, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Walter Few, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Alvaro Manrique Garcia, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

John Golding, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Rehan Kahloon, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Michael Love, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor (Retired), Department of Medicine

Kendrick L. Mills, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Jennifer Mirza, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Joseph Pendley, DO
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Jonathan Powell, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Poonam Puri, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Patrick Stevens, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Kinsman Wright, MD
Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Dermatology

Cara Hennings, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Endocrinology

Abby Jawahar, MD
Division Chief
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Gastroenterology

Arslan Kahloon, MD
Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship 
Division Chief, Gastroenterology
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Samuel Igbinedion, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Steven R. Kessler, DO
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Laxmi Parsa, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Sean Rice, MD
Associate Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Laurie-Anne Swaby, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Priya Vijayvargiya, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

General Internal Medicine

Eric McCartt, MD
Division Chief, General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Shadi Ayyoub, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Sachin Amin, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Liz Culler, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Michael Davis, MD
Director, Global and Community Health
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Roger DeVersa, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Tracy Dozier, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Roshan Gamage, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Monica Gefter, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Leahanne Giffin, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mark Jones, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Gary Malakoff, MD, FACP
Associate Professor (Retired), Department of Medicine

Gregory Nieckula, DO
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mukta Panda, MD, MACP, FRCP-London
Professor (Retired), Department of Medicine

Nick Pumilia, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Stephen Scorey, DO
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Purvi Sheth, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Cody Smith, DO
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Robert Vince Smith, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Marshall Spears, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Lisa Staton, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Maria Tudor, DO
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Laura Youngblood, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
 

Geriatrics 

Luther Frank Chandler, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Joshua Hornsby, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Greg Phelps, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Hematology/Oncology

Robert Matt Graham, MD
Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

John McCravey, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Sumana Nagireddy, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Larry Schlabach, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Retired), Department of Medicine

Infectious Disease

James Sizemore, MD
Division Chief, Infectious Disease
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Nephrology

Christopher Poole, MD
Division Chief, Nephrology
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Lindsay Crawford, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Donald Franklin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Brant Holt, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine 

Kenneth Kokko, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine 

Ralph Stafford, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine 

Psychiatry

Jonathan Cohen, MD
Division Chief, Psychiatry
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Vijaya Lakshmi Appareddy, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Lydia Haren, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Jennie Mahaffey, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Pulmonary/Critical Care

Radhika Shah, MD
Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

John Boldt, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Upsana Bardhan Chakraborty, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Elwyn Clark, DO
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Aaron Cohen, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Jeremy Greenberg, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Audrey Haywood, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine 

Salik Jahania, MD
Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Richard Loynd, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Anne Mainardi, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Brett Schaeffer, MD
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Andrew Vernon, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine 

Rheumatology

Jayne Crowe, MD
Division Chief, Rheumatology
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Michael Brit, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine  

Jonathan Mills, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Elizabeth Turner, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Pathology

Richard Hessler, MD
Chief of Pathology, Erlanger Health
Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Radiology

Andrew Hill, MD
Chief of Radiology, Erlanger Health
Clinical Assistant Professor (Radiology), Department of Medicine

Jose Barriocanal, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology), Department of Medicine

Harigovinda Challa, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Pediatric Radiology), Department of Medicine

Harris E. Hawk, MD
Program Director, Neuro-Interventional Surgery Fellowship
Clinical Assistant Professor (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology), Department of Medicine

Samuel Porter, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology), Department of Medicine

Steven Quarfordt, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology), Department of Medicine

Trenton Willingham, MD
Clinical Instructor (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology), Department of Medicine 

 

Oct 8, 2024