Dr. Gadasalli Selected as a 2008 "Texas Super Doctor"

Introduction

Key Professional Media asked more than 38,000 medical professionals to nominate one or more doctors, other than themselves, from specified medical specialties based on one question: "If you meeded medical care, which doctor would you choose?"

After tallying their replies, the research team also identified Texas doctors who had achieved special recognition from their peers or had demonstrated other indication of expertise in their specialties. The researchers also made sure each physician is properly licensed and has no history of disciplinary action.

In the end, Key Professional Media's list includes doctors in 31 medical practice areas. Dr. Suresh Gadasalli was chosen in the specialty of Cardiology. The following profile appeared in Texas Monthly Magazine's December, 2008 issue introducing the "Texas Super Doctors™" of 2008.

[Note: Dr. Gadasalli was also selected as a "Texas Super Doctor" in 2007 and 2009.]

Suresh N. Gadasalli, M.D., F.A.C.C.

Since 1994, Dr. Suresh N. Gadasalli and The Healthy Heart Center of Odessa, Texas have helped patients understand and protect the amazing organ known as the heart.

After completing residency and fellowship in cardiovascular disease, Dr. Gadasalli came to Odessa from Wisconsin and has been actively involved in diagnosing and treating heart disease in West Texas. After obtaining Fellowship in the American College of Cardiology and Fellowship in the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, Dr. Gadasalli has been involved in some of the most innovative cardiace procedures performed in the world. His group's clinical findings have been prsented and published extensively.

At The Healty Heart Center of Odessa, the highly skilled and well-trained staff have one common goal. This is patient first healthy heart care. Dr. Gadasalli states "our ability to understand our patient's concern and to ease their fears mikes it easier for them and their loved ones. This is the care they need and the attention they deserve."

Expert training: Dr. Gadasalli completed his residency at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at the Sinai Samaritan Medical Center where he was Chief Resident of Internal Medicine and completed training in cardiovascular diseases at the Milwaukee Heart Institute.

Dr. Gadasalli and his staff provide expert outreach cardiology care to the communities in West Texas. This includes care not only in Odessa, Texas but also Monahans, Pecos, Andrews, Fort Stockton, Kermit and Alpine, Texas. As the driving distances in West Texas are significant, Dr. Gadasalli believes that it is easier for the elderly and debilitated patients to see him in consultation at these clinics in their hometowns.

Focus on Community: Dear to Dr. Gadasalli is involvement with local charities and philanthropy. In February 2008, he and wife received a lifetime achievement award by the United Way of Odessa. This is only the third such award given in Odessa in the past twenty years. The award is given to those people who reach a significant contribution milestone within the United Way's giving level. The Odessa United Way donations fund twenty-nine programs in seventeen agencies.

Dr. Gadasalli in involved in the Children's Miracle Network and has been awarded the balloon "pilot" honor for his contributions in their fund raising.

Dr. Suresh Gadasalli was one of the thirteen outstanding men and women honored for excellence in community service for significant contributions to improvement of the quality of life in Odessa. Dr. Gadasalli was recipient of the Heritage Foundation of Odessa's Fourteenth Annual Award for excellence in community service in the "health and science" category.

Dr. Gadasalli and his wife, Arathi, are charter donors to the Ector County Education Foundation. Dr. Gadasalli believes in supporting his community to provide the best education for the school children. He and his wife have donated a 20,000 square-foot plus building to the Ector County Independent School District. The trustees have now started a Fine Arts Center in this building and this has benefited the entire community.

Dr. Gadasalli is a very strong supporter of the Salvation Army. He has contributed to the Odessa Empty Stocking Fund and in the past years has championed fund raising. This annual effort provides food, clothing and toys for nneedy children and families around Christmastime.

Dr. Gadasalli is on the clinical faculty of the Texas Tech Health Science Center and is involved in training of residents and believes strongly in training these residents who are the future of medicine.

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