Dheeraj Puppala, MD

Bio

Dr. Puppala graduated with honors from Kakatiya Medical College in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India, with bachelor’s degrees in medicine and surgery. He then completed a research fellowship in electrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston and went on to complete an internal medicine residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago.

Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Puppala has more than 10 years of experience providing comprehensive hospital-based internal medicine care to patients. He most recently worked as a hospitalist at Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina. Prior to this role, he served as an attending internal medicine physician at Aurora West Allis Medical Center in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Dr. Puppala proudly joins the board-certified physicians at Lexington Hospitalists to provide comprehensive inpatient care at Lexington Medical Center. These specially trained physicians reflect the hospital’s commitment to offering advanced medicine and compassionate care to patients while they are in the hospital.