Texas Society for Gastroenterology & Endoscopy has designated two Indian American gastroenterologists, Drs. Roopa Vemulapalli and Prashant Kedia, as the Fellow of TSGE (FTSGE) in recognition of their significant contributions to the field and the society.
Vemulapalli, Kedia, and Paul Tarnasky were recognized at the TSGE Annual Conference recently.
Vemulapalli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in gastroenterology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2010.
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Dr. Vemulapalli serves as Medical Director of UT Southwestern’s Digestive Disease Clinic. She is also Co-Chair of the Access Working Group for the Ambulatory Operations Council and a member of the EMR Optimization Physician Group Committee.
Additionally, she is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, the Texas Medical Association, and the Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy.
She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Nutrition and Dietetics, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Investigative Medicine, and ACG Case Reports.
Dr. Vemulapalli has been included in D Magazine’s Best Doctors list every year since 2018, and she is one of Becker’s Healthcare’s 10 Gastroenterologists to Know for 2021.
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She earned her medical degree at Kakatiya Medical College in India and completed a residency in internal medicine at Chicago’s Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital. She received advanced training through a clinical nutrition fellowship at the University of Chicago Hospital and a gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at UT Southwestern.
Kedia, Director of Interventional Endoscopy at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, performs ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), and bariatric endoscopy.
He has a passion for treating achalasia, Zenker’s diverticulum, large polyps, early GI neoplasms, and pancreaticobiliary disorders. Dr. Kedia has published numerous manuscripts on these topics and is very committed to teaching and engaging in clinical research.