Dr. Roopashree Muralidhar, MD
Internal Medicine
Locations
Willis Knighton Internal Medicine South
2508 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop
Suite 301
Shreveport
, LA 71118
About Me
Dr. Muralidhar received her medical education and degree in her native India at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bangalore. She continued there with an internship and was a postgraduate resident in Internal Medicine at Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore and, later a senior resident in Internal Medicine at Bangalore.
In 2003, she moved to the United Kingdom and served as house officer in Internal Medicine at the Isle of Man. She moved to the United States in 2008 and completed a postgraduate residency in Internal medicine at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was also fellowship trained in geriatric medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y.
This background, including formal and informal teaching opportunities, provided her the opportunity to demonstrate and share her skills with doctors in training and with nurses. While at Interfaith Medical Center she received the organization’s humanitarian award.
She moved to Shreveport with her husband in 2021 after serving as a primary care physician at Trinity Health of New England in Massachusetts. Her patients here have the benefit of more than 20 years of experience in primary care, with a decade of service to primary care patients in the U.S.
Dr. Muralidhar is married to Dr. Sasi Penukonda, a pediatric endocrinologist.
Education
Fellowship:
Montefiore Medical Center/NY
Residency:
Interfaith Medical Center
Internship:
Interfaith Medical Center
Medical School:
MS Ramaiah Medical College
, MD
Board Certifications
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Insurances Accepted
- AARP Medicare Supplemental Plans
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health of Louisiana
- Aetna Coventry Advantra Louisiana
- Aetna Coventry Medicare Dual Preferred
- Aetna Medicare Freedom PPO
- Amerihealth Caritas Louisiana
- Beech Street (Multiplan)
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield - PPO Preferred Care
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Federal Employees
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana - HMO Louisiana
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana - Medicare Advantage
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield OGB
- Cigna HealthCare
- Coventry Health Care (Aetna)
- First Health
- GEHA (Government Employees Health Association)
- Gilsbar
- Health Plus of Louisiana
- Healthy Blue
- Humana
- Humana Choice PPO
- IMA of Louisiana
- Louisiana Healthcare Connections
- Louisiana Medicaid
- Louisiana Medicaid CHIP
- Mail Handler's Benefit Plan (Aetna)
- Medicare Railroad
- Medicare Traditional Part B
- Multiplan
- Mutual of Omaha Supplemental Plans
- Novasys Health
- People's Health
- PHCS (Private Healthcare Systems / Multiplan)
- PPO Plus
- Tricare for Life
- Tricare Prime
- Tricare Select / Standard
- UMR (United Healthcare)
- United Healthcare
- United Healthcare Community Plan - Medicaid
- United Healthcare Dual Complete
- Vantage Health Plans – Commercial & Medicare Advantage
- Workers Compensation