Kiran Garikapati, MD
Hospital Medicine

About

Dr. Kiran Garikapati is a hospitalist and internal medicine physician practicing in Louisiana. He earned his medical degree from Siddhartha Medical College in Vijayawada, India. After that he completed a one-year internship at Government General Hospital in Vijayawada, then went on to complete his residency in internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital, affiliated with Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. Garikapati has been board certified in internal medicine in Louisiana since 2015. Previously, he maintained a Michigan medical license from 2012 - 2015.

His clinical focus is hospital medicine, caring for inpatients, and he has contributed to scholarly and clinical research. Some of his recent publications include work on outcomes in patients receiving percutaneous left ventricular assist devices, reviews in transcatheter aortic valve replacement especially in rheumatic aortic stenosis, and studies involving bariatric surgery in patients with ventricular assist devices.

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