Administrative Faculty

Director of Internal Medicine Education

Dr. Radhika Pathalapati (Dr. Pat)

Dr. Radhika Pathalapati “Dr. Pat” is committed to educating the next generation of physicians. She has been on the teaching faculty of Lower Bucks Hospital since 2015, concentrating on both internal and family medicine and nephrology practices. She was named director of the internal medicine program in May 2019.

Dr. Radhika is the owner of Bucks County Kidney Specialists, a successful nephrology and hypertension practice in Langhorne, PA, where she treats patients with chronic and acute kidney disease, patients on dialysis as well as those suffering from recurrent kidney stones and urinary tract infection.

Prior to establishing her own practice in 2010, Dr. Radhika was a nephrology and hypertension specialist at another practice in Bucks County. Currently, she is the medical director of Oxford Court Dialysis Center, Newtown Dialysis Center, and Statesman Dialysis Center.

Dr. Radhika received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. (M.B.B.S) from Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, AP, India and an internship at Sri Venkateswara Government General Hospital, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York Medical College, New York City and her fellowship in nephrology at Metropolitan Hospital Center, Our Lady of Mercy Hospital and Westchester Medical Center/ New York Medical College in New York City.

Dr. Radhika also serves on the teaching faculty for internal medicine at St Mary Medical Center.

She has also served as a volunteer researcher in the Department of Pain Management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, the Department of Medicine/Pediatrics at Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York Medical College, New York City and the Department of Pediatrics at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island & Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI.