Ep 069 - Preventive Medicine with Dr. Janani Krishnaswami

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Dr. Janani Krishnaswami


Dr. Krishnaswami is the Program Director of the Preventive
Medicine Residency at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
School of Medicine.


Dr. Krishnaswami received her medical degree from the University
of Michigan in 2008; completed residency training in Internal
Medicine and Preventive Medicine at the University of California,
San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente, as well as completed a
Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of
California –Berkeley all by 2012, eventually taking the job as
Program Director in 2015.


Since completing her training, Dr. Krishnaswami’s research has
center on the cultural context of wellness and measuring “best
practices” of community engaged programs focusing on preventing
sedentary behavior and obesity. In support of this effort, Dr.
Krishnaswami’s has focused on building health “outside the
hospital” by engaging students, community members and trainees in
community-based, participatory efforts to promote wellness,
prevent chronic disease, and sustain health. Prior to her role as
Program Director at Rio Grande Valley, Dr. Krishnaswami served as
the Associate Program Director for Preventive Medicine at the
University of California – Los Angeles, where she led curriculum
development on community engagement and quality improvement. In
addition, she developed and taught a novel health policy
curriculum for the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Internal
Medicine residency program, and mentored Family Medicine and
Internal Medicine residents through the program’s first
community-engaged research elective. Based on her work in
curriculum design and medical education, she was invited to serve
on the national steering committee directing the creation of a
novel inter-residency health policy fellowship, led by George
Washington University and Kaiser Permanente.


Importantly, this work led Dr. Krishnaswami to establish the
Preventive Medicine program at Rio Grande Valley as the first
ACGME-accredited residency based on the “Community-Engaged
Lifestyle Medicine” curriculum, which aims to build health equity
and local health in the training of residents.


In her spare time, Dr. Krishnaswami tends to her own wellness
through her hobbies of writing, singing and fitness, and spending
time with her husband and young son.


Please enjoy with Dr. Janani Krishnaswami!