
St. Luke's Medical Group
Shanthi S. Kumar, M.D.
Accepting new patients
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About
Shanthi Kumar, MD, is a a board-certified physician in internal medicine for Mera, Boesch & Kumar Internal Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka and completed her residency in internal medicine at St. Luke's Hospital. She is board certified in internal medicine and has been practicing medicine with St. Luke's Medical Group since 1996.
As a primary care physician, she specializes in adult healthcare, treating patients from age 18 through senior adults and partnering with them to keep them healthy and active in their healthcare. Besides her focus on wellness, she also provides diagnosis and treatment of illnesses such as heart disease, digestive disorders, hormonal conditions, arthritis, diabetes, infections and respiratory conditions.
Dr. Kumar strives to build long-term relationships with her patients and to empower them to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Her commitment to healthcare extends beyond her practice, and she works with assisted living and skilled nursing care facilities.
Dr. Kumar is happily married with three children. In her free time, she enjoys music, traveling, hiking and spending time with friends and family.
Gender
- Female
Languages
- Tamil
Affiliations
- St. Luke's Hospital
- St. Luke's Medical Group
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal pain
- Adult internal medicine
- Adult medicine
- Adult primary care
- Advance care planning
- Aging
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Care of elderly patients
- Dermatologic disorders, internal medicine
- General medicine
- Geriatric care
- Geriatric diabetes
- Geriatric medicine
- Insomnia
- Internal medicine
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Limb edema
- Medical illnesses
- Memory disorders
- Men's health
- Nursing home care
- Older adult health
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Preventive medicine
- Primary care medicine
- Primary care of women
- Pulmonary diseases
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhinitis
- Routine well care
- Senior medicine
- Sleep disorders in elderly
- Smoking
- Thyroid age-related changes
- Unexplained Fever
- Voiding dysfunction in the elderly
- Wellness in the elderly
- Advanced directive
- Allergic rhinitis
- Assisted living
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Food poisoning
- Gastroesophageal reflux
- GERD
- High blood pressure
- Infectious lung disease
- Infectious respiratory diseases
- Leg swelling
- Peripheral edema
- Primary healthcare
- Raynaud disease
- Raynaud phenomenon
- RLS
- Sinusitis
- Stuffy nose
- Vaccinations
Education & Training
- Medical Education
- University of Jaffna Faculty of Medicine
- Residency
- St. Luke's Hospital
Insurances Accepted
Please call the office(s) to verify your insurance is accepted.
- Healthlink
- Medica (WellFirst)
- Humana (Medicare)
- Multiplan-PHCS
- CHHS - HomeState
- HomeState
- RR Medicare
- Cigna
- Ambetter
- CHHS - Ambetter
- Medicare
- Medicare SLMG
- Essence
- CHHS - WellCare
- WellCare
- Allwell
- CHHS - Allwell
- Anthem BCBS
- Aetna
- Ascension
- UHC
- TriCare