Kavitha Yaddanapudi, MD

  • Chief, Cardiothoracic Imaging Division
  • Associate Professor, Medical Imaging (Clinical Scholar Track)
  • Associate Professor, Medicine (Clinical Scholar Track)
  • Medical Imaging Discipline Director
  • Program Director, Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship, Department of Medical Imaging
  • Associate Program Director, Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship, Department of Medicine

Dr. Yaddanapudi is a fellowship trained Cardiothoracic and Nuclear medicine radiologist who is double boarded in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. After completing four years of fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Internal Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. She also served as Co-Chief of Thoracic Imaging at Stony Brook. Her clinical and research interests are Cardiac Sarcoidosis, PET CT and PET MRI imaging of Sarcoidosis and Interstitial lung disease.

Research Interests: 

Cardiac Sarcoidosis, PET CT and PET MRI imaging of Sarcoidosis and Interstitial lung disease

Honors and Awards
  • • 2018 Best Clinical Conundrum Presentation at Annual Society Thoracic Radiology
  • • 2013 Cleveland Clinic Caregivers Celebrations Award
  • • 1998 Pfizer Scroll of Honor for Best Student Final MBBS Year
  • • 1998 Dr. C. Sita Devi Endowment Medal for Best Student of the Batch of 1998
  • • 1998 Sri Ramachandrula Hanumantha Rao Scholarship for Highest Marks in Final MBBS
Residency
  • GBPant Hospital, New Delhi, India
Fellowship
  • Cleveland Clinic, Nuclear Medicine Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2010 - 2011
  • Cleveland Clinic, Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2011 - 2012
  • Cleveland Clinic, Thoracic Imaging Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2012 - 2013
  • Cleveland Clinic, Musculoskeletal Imaging Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2013 - 2014
  • Cleveland Clinic, Nuclear Medicine Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 7/1/2014 - 9/25/2014