Dr. Anupama Gotimukula-Led Leadership Vows To Take AAPI to Newer Heights

By uypbr

December 10, 2018 3 Min Read

Dr. Anupama Gotimukula, President of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) has vowed to make AAPI a premium healthcare leader, primarily focusing to improve and reform the current healthcare system and help towards making a better healthcare model for the patients;

create awareness projects on major chronic diseases burdening our health care system through Lifestyle modifications; establish a support system to members going through racial discrimination in the US; support AAPI legislative efforts to make healthcare better and affordable to all and promote charitable activities globally.

Dr. Anupama Gotimukula-Led Leadership Vows To Take AAPI to Newer Heights

During a solemn ceremony attended by hundreds of AAPI delegates from around the nation, Dr. Anupama Gotimukula and a new executive committee, consisting of Dr. Ravi Kolli, President-Elect; Dr. Anjana Samadder, Vice President; Dr. Satheesh Kathula, Secretary; Dr. Krishan Kumar, Treasurer; Dr. Kusum Punjabi, Chair, Board of Trustees;

Dr. Soumya Neravetla- President, Young Physicians Section;

Dr. Ayesha Singh, President, Medical Student/Residents & Fellows Section;
Assumed charge of AAPI during the 39th annual Convention at the fabulous and world famous Omni Atlanta at CNN Center and Georgia World Congress Center on July 4th, 2021.
Dr. Sudhakar Jonnalgadda, the outgoing President of AAPI passed on the gavel to Dr. Gotimukula, who will lead AAPI as its President in the year 2021-2022,

the largest Ethnic Medical Organization in the United States, representing the interests of the over 100,000 physicians including Medical Students and Fellows of Indian origin in the United States, serving one in seven patients in the US and in many ways contributing to the shaping of the healthcare delivery for the past four decades.

A resident of San Antonio, TX, Dr.Gotimukula is a board certified Pediatric Anesthesiologist, practicing since 2007, is affiliated with Christus Santa Rosa, Baptist and Methodist Healthcare systems in San Antonio.

After graduating with distinction from Kakatiya Medical College, NTR University of Health Sciences in India,

she did Residency at University of Miami & University of Illinois, and Fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology at University of Michigan.

As a Healthcare Leader, Dr. Gotimukula recognizes that “AAPI has power. We have legitimate respect and trust of our communities in every corner of America. AAPI will leverage that power of our purpose and networks to help address specific challenges related to affordable healthcare delivery.

Dr. Kusum Punjabi, a very young and energetic leader of AAPI, assumed office as the Chair of Board of Trustees of AAPI on July 4th.

The youngest to date to be holding this position in AAPI’s 40 years long history and the first person to go to medical school in the USA
Dr. Punjabi completed her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in Biology and Economics
Graduated with high honors as a Henry Rutgers Scholar. She, then completed MD/MBA program from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Business School.

Holding leadership roles while a student, Dr. Punjabi says, “I was the Class President in medical school and got the Deans Award that year. I then went to Philadelphia and completed my residency in Emergency Medicine from Drexel University – Hahnemann University Hospital. For the past 12 years, I work as an Emergency Physician at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson university hospital in NJ serving our local community and teaching at the Medical school as Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine.”