Dr. Lakshmi Polavarapu is Interim Chief Medical Officer at Sadler Health Center, where she provides clinical leadership to the medical department in support of high-quality, integrated, whole-person care for patients. At Sadler, she practices family and addiction medicine. She is certified in providing MOUD (medications for opioid use disorder) and serves on the Task Force on Opiate Prescribing with the Partnership for Better Health.
Outside of Sadler, Dr. Polavarapu is a clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine at Penn State College of Medicine and trains medical students from both Penn State Health and UPMC.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery (MBBS) from Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences in India and completed her residency at Genesys Regional Medical Center in Michigan, where she became board certified in family medicine. She has experience in outpatient clinics, inpatient hospital care and nursing home care.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and hiking.
