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New teaching hospitalist to focus on patient care, resident education
An internal medicine physician and teaching hospitalist has joined The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education.
Dr. Maheswara Reddy Koppula will serve as an internal medicine teaching hospitalist, focusing on the quality of patient care, teaching, and supervising physicians participating in The Wright Center’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Koppula will develop, implement, and assess the curriculum and mentor residents to ensure they achieve competency in their specialty. He will also serve as an associate program director for The Wright Center’s Internal Medicine residency program.
Additionally, Dr. Koppula will provide whole-person primary health services for individuals 18 and older, including checkups, physicals, screenings, and treatment of common illnesses and injuries at The Wright Center for Community Health Wilkes-Barre, 169 N. Pennsylvania Ave. The community health center is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. To schedule an appointment, go to TheWrightCenter.org or call 570.230.0019.
After graduating from GSL Medical College in Rajahmundry, India, in 2012, Dr. Koppula served as a medical officer at several hospitals in Hyderabad and Telangana, India. After moving to the United States in 2014, he completed observership rotations in Texas, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania and an internship and internal medicine residency at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. His contributions to the health care field earned him a fellowship in the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Koppula, who is board-certified in internal medicine, joined The Wright Center after serving as a faculty hospitalist and associate program director of the internal medicine residency at Crozer Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania, since 2023. Prior to that, he worked as a hospitalist in Buffalo, New York; Springfield, Ohio; and Clarksville, Tennessee.
The Wright Center’s growing network of community health centers in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, and Wyoming counties provides affordable, high-quality, whole-person primary health services to everyone, regardless of insurance status, ZIP code, or ability to pay. Patients typically have the convenience of going to a single location to access integrated medical, dental, and behavioral health care. For more information, visit TheWrightCenter.org.
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education was established in 1976 as the Scranton-Temple Residency Program, a community-based internal medicine residency program. Today, The Wright Center is one of the largest U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration-funded Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Safety-Net Consortiums in the nation. Together with consortium stakeholders, The Wright Center trains resident and fellow physicians in a community-based, community-needs-responsive workforce development model to advance its mission to improve the health and welfare of communities through responsive, whole-person health services for all and the sustainable renewal of an inspired, competent workforce that is privileged to serve.
