Ramprasad Kandavar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Contact Information
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
School of Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, SL-16
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
E-mail: rkandava@tulane.edu
Phone: 504-988-7518
Fax: 504-988-8252

Education
MBBS, Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary, Gulbarga University, India

Residency & Fellowship Training
Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellary, Gulbarga University, India
Junior Resident, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore University, India
MD, Residency in Internal Medicine, Command Hospital Air Force, Bangalore, Bangalore University, India
Residency in Internal Medicine, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Biography
Dr. Kandavar, following his residency in internal medicine India, worked as a faculty in internal medicine at St. John’s Medical College & Hospital, Bangalore and Kasturba Medical College & Hospital, Manipal, India from 1994 to 1997. From 1998 to 2000 served as a consultant physician, ministry of Health, Govt. of St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies.

After the completion of his residency and fellowship at Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2006, Dr. Kandavar joined as a faculty Dept. of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine and was based at Huey P .Long hospital, Pineville, Louisiana. Since 2007, Dr. Kandavar has been practicing as a hospitalist at Tulane university medical center, New Orleans, serving mainly preoperative surgical patient clinic and in-patient medicine consult service.

Clinical Interest
Dr. Kandavar is interested in the practice and teaching of patient centric traditional bedside Internal Medicine, with a focus on art of history taking, physical examination, cost effective management and medical ethics, in the contemporary circumstances.