Dr. Savitha Elam-Kootil

Dr. Savitha Elam-Kootil is an advisory board member at MyYogaTeacher

⁠She practices internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente where she specializes in primary care, chronic disease management, and elder care. She is also a lead physician for depression care management – a primary care initiative to improve patient health.

Raised in Southern India, Dr. Elam-Kootil developed an awareness of yoga early on in her life. After moving to the United States, she began to see a need for the transformative effects of yoga to improve her patients’ mental and physical health.

Having witnessed the benefits of yoga, Dr. Elam-Kootil regularly recommends it to her patients to help with a wide range of issues, including hypertension, diabetes, obesity, sleep apnea, insomnia, depression, anxiety, chronic low back pain, and chronic addictions.

• J.L.N. Medical College
• Belgaum, Karnataka, India
• Internship at the University of South Carolina Richland Memorial Hospital
• Residency at the Atlanta Medical Center

• American Board Internal Medicine (American Board Internal Medicine)
• Sleep Medicine (American Board Internal Med)

• Board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Recipient of Kaiser Permanente’s Golden Stethoscope award
• Board certified in sleep medicine by the American Society of Sleep Medicine
• Clinical hypertension specialist certified by by the American Society of Hypertension.

• Internist at Kaiser Permanente Georgia