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Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Mayer
Chitra and Nickhill Bhakta conducted studies of an AIDS population in Chennai, India to document the effects of alternative therapy usage on the Western biomedical doctor-patient relationship. In this two-part project, Chitra administered surveys to patients and Nickhill developed case studies from interviews of patients an doctors, creating a project that was both quantitative and qualitative.
Chitra Akileswaran is currently the Associate Medical Director at Kyruus, Inc. and an attending obstetrician/gynecologist at Alameda County Health System in Oakland, CA. Chitra is most recently involved with operations improvement projects on labor and delivery units at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda and at the University of California, San Francisco, where she completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency training. She served as Adminstrative Chief Resident.