Swethapriya Chaparala, MD
Ph: 470-***-****, E-Mail: **.******@*****.***
EDUCATION AND WORK EDUCATION
Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital Athens, GA
• Academic Hospitalist July 2023 – Present
Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital Athens, GA
• Chief Medical Resident July 2022 – June 2023
Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital Athens, GA
• Internal Medicine Resident July 2019 – June 2022 Narayana Medical college Nellore, India
• Doctor of Medicine June 2009 – March 2015
AWARDS
• Best Outstanding leadership award 2022
• Georgia ACP QI project Abstract Winner - 3rd Place 2021-2022
• Piedmont Athens Regional Inpatient Resident of the Year 2020-2021
• American Thoracic Society Student Scholar Award 2020-2021
• Best Journal club honorable mention 2020-2021
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Team Lead Hypertension Busters - CATAPULT Project
Chair member of Women in Medicine Committee
Team leader for QI project for Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
Team leader for Obesity Quality Improvement Project PUBLICATIONS
Allihien SM, Ibrahim S, Chaparala S, Singireddy S, Kesiena O. A Case of Trauma-Related Angioedema of the Airway in a Patient on an Angiotensin Receptor Blocker. Am J Case Rep. 2024 Feb 28;25:e943407. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.943407. PMID: 38414232; PMCID: PMC10914075. Shreyas Singireddy MD, Haripriya Andanamala MD, Nikhil Madala MD, Jaime Gonzalez Cardona MD, Swethapriya Chaparala MD, Dipal Patel MD. (ACC 2023) “Arrhythmias are associated with increased mortality rates in patients with Amyloidosis: A Retrospective Cohort study from 2015-2019 using the National Inpatient Sample
N. Madala, S Chaparala, S. Singireddy Brash: A Vicious Cycle Provoked by Salt Substitutes And Medications Chest, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2022.08.550 Madala, N., Adhikari, P., Chaparala, S., & Hawwa, R. (2022). Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome: What Is the Trigger; Covid-19 Infection or Vaccination? Chest, 161(6), A535 Singireddy S, Kesiena O, Chaparala S et al. “A Case of Intra-fascicular Belhassen Ventricular Tachycardia” J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Mar, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0735-1097(22)03543-4 Singireddy, S., Kesiena, O., Chaparala, S., & Murrow, J. R. (2022). “Symptomatic Pulmonary Valve Fibroelastoma.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 79(9_Supplement), 2226-2226. Chaparala S., Rafael C. Da Silva, and John Paul Papadopoulos. "Severe Lactic Acidosis Due to Acute Intoxication by Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide." Cureus 13.10 (2021) Nguyen DB, Chaparala S., Morel L, Bueno Y, Lovell R. Weil's Disease in an HIV-Infected Patient. Cureus. 2021 Apr 1;13(4):e14241. doi: 10.7759/cureus.14241. PMID: 33954063; PMCID: PMC8088264. Chaparala S., Amenu E. MD, Patel D. MD, Ogork E. MD, Barry J. MPH, Bonhomme K. MD, Apaloo C. MD, FACP. “Hidden in Plain Sight (HIPS): Addressing Obesity at a Community Care Clinic” American College of Physicians Annual Meeting. (September 2021)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of FCM as Treatment for Heart Failure with Iron Deficiency NCT03037931 Chaparala S., Sub-investigator Single center, retrospective cohort study – Electromagnetic navigational Bronchoscopy with Illuminist
POSTER PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS
-Shreyas Singireddy MD, Nikhil Madala MD, Swethapriya Chaparala MD. “Racial Disparities affecting mortality rates in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - American Thoracic society 2023
-Swethapriya Chaparala MD, Shreyas Singireddy MD, Nikhil Madala MD, Nick Fox MD. “Invasive Aspergillosis Masquerading as Malignancy, the Slow Brewing Catastrophe” American Thoracic society 2023
-Nikhil Madala MD, Shreyas Singireddy MD, Swethapriya Chaparala MD. “Eosinophilic Wildfire – A Complication of Amiodarone Toxicity” American Thoracic society 2023 Saint-Matin Allehien, Chaparala S “Angioedema with an angiotensin receptor blocker” ACP Georgia Chapter Jul 2022
Singireddy S, Madala N, Chaparala S, Patel D “All is well in Wellens” ACP Georgia Chapter Jul 2022 Chaparala S., Madala N., Kupshik D., “Diagnostic Dilemma: COVID related angioedema” ACP Georgia Chapter Virtual meeting Oct 2021 Poster
Waitmu S., Chaparala S., Madala N., Amiodarone induced pulmonary toxicity, ACP Georgia Chapter Virtual meeting Oct 2021 Poster
Chaparala S., Nestoiter K., Madala N., Vila N., Lovell R., Ciprofloxacin induced vasculitis ACP Georgia Chapter Virtual meeting Oct 2020 poster
Patel D., Nguyen DB, Chaparala S., Lovell R., AIDS In a patient with Undetectable HIV viral load ACP Georgia Chapter Virtual meeting Oct 2020 poster
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chaparala S., Ogork, E., Patel, D., Amenu E., Hidden in Plain Sight (HIPS): Addressing Obesity at a Community Care Clinic. Presented at Piedmont Athens Regional Research Day. (June2021) Chaparala S., Landis M., The Gender Pay Gap Journal Club presented at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center (December 2020)
Chaparala S., Ekane J. The DENSE Trial. Journal Club presented at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center (December 2019)
Chaparala S., Vanegas D., Hari A., Sarpong M., Harms Under the Radar patient safety and quality improvement presented at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center (August 2019) QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Alcohol Withdrawal Protocol Review Committee - Member Iron Deficiency Anemia Treatment in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction - Team leader Obesity Quality Improvement Project -Team Leader
HOSPITAL/GME COMMITTEES
• Medication management and safety committee - Member
• Rapid response committee - Member
• Critical care committee – Member
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
• COVID Vaccine clinic
• Volunteered in ISHA institute of inner sciences – Nonprofit organization PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
• American College of Physician - 2019 - Present
LANGUAGES
• Fluent in Telugu, Hindi, and English