posted March 26, 2008
 Dr. VijayaLakshmi Appareddy |
The 2008 AMA Foundation Leadership Awards ceremony will be held during the special Leadership Award programming and the AMA National Advocacy Conference in Washington, D.C., March 30–April 2.
Dr. Appareddy became the first Indian American Woman to receive a non-career Presidential Appointment in the history of the United States of America. She was sworn in as a member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities at a ceremony in the Indian Treaty Room at the White House by Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson in 2002. She is an Alternate delegate to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association. She is currently a member of the board of governors of Parkridge Hospital in Chattanooga.
Dr. Appareddy worked as a volunteer medical doctor at Middletown psychiatric Center, a New York State Mental health institution for a year in 1985. She completed her graduate medical training in both Adult Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. Following her training, she worked as the Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University medical school in Providence, RI. She then moved to Chattanooga to fulfill her dream of serving in a medically underserved area where she practices Psychiatry. She is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and also Board Certified in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Appareddy has served several ethnic and mainstream medical organizations over the years in various leadership roles. In 2002 she was elected as the youngest chairperson of the Board of Trustees of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin. AAPI represents the interests of over 42000 physicians of Indian origin practicing in the U.S. She also served as the President of the Chattanooga chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association.
Dr. Appareddy regularly participates in health fairs at Atlanta organized by Indian American doctors at public places such as school, church and temple in honor of Martin Luther King and Gandhi for the benefit of the uninsured. In 2002 she met with the President of India and several Chief Ministers and facilitated the transfer of clinical knowledge such as Emergency Medical Systems to India through the AAPI.
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