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Kavya Chitra Mekala, MBBS

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Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
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Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)

Biography

Dr. Mekala is a board- certified endocrinologist and joined Yale as faculty in 2021. With a career spanning over a decade, she brings with her a wide breadth of experience in clinical endocrinology.

Dr. Mekala obtained her medical degree in India. Following this, she spent a year at the University of Florida researching ammonia transporters. She completed her post-graduate training in Massachusetts and went on to training an additional year as a PCOS research fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Before joining Yale, she was faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where she was the Associate Program Director for the endocrine fellowship program. She was also the Medical Director of the Inpatient Glycemic Management team at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. She is passionate about teaching and remains actively involved in various intra-mural and extra-mural efforts for curricular development.

Dr. Mekala’s philosophy for clinical care is to use a compassionate, patient-centered approach, while relying on current evidence, to partner with her patients in therapeutic decision-making. Her outpatient clinical practice focuses on bone health and thyroid disease.

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Education & Training

Fellowship, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Lahey Clinic, Tufts University (2013)
Residency, Internal Medicine
Lahey Clinic, Tufts University (2009)
MBBS
Madras Medical College (2003)

Clinical Care

Overview

Kavya Mekala, MD, is an endocrinologist who focuses on bone health and thyroid disease. She manages bone and mineral metabolism disorders, including osteoporosis, hyperparathyroidism, and inherited skeletal disorders at the Yale New Haven Health Long Ridge Medical Center, Stamford.

She also sees patients with thyroid conditions including thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer, primarily at the Endocrine Neoplasia Clinic in the Smilow Cancer Hospital.

Dr. Mekala notes that she was always interested in life sciences and that it was natural for her to enter the medical field.

“What I love about endocrinology is that it involves getting to the bottom of complex problems where the solution might not be obvious,” she says. “You must use a systematic approach to put the pieces together and find a diagnosis. Being able to offer patients solutions to these complex endocrine issues is gratifying.”

Dr. Mekala also believes in developing strong relationships with her patients and advocates for shared decision-making. “I am mindful of how important it is to have that patient-physician trust to ensure that a therapeutic plan is successful,” she notes.

Clinical Specialties

Endocrinology

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  • Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2012

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