Vishal Poddar, M.D. - Howard University College of Medicine
Vishal Poddar is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Sleep. He serves as Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine (HUCM). He is immediate past president of Howard University Hospital's (HUH) medical staff and previously served as chair of the credentials committee from 2019 to 2020.
Dr. Poddar graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Jamaica in 1993. He moved to Barbados in 1996, where he completed his first internal medicine residency, served as chief resident, then became a Barbados Registry of Strokes (BROS) research fellow before taking the faculty and program director role between 2003 and 2006.
He moved to the United States in 2006 and completed his residency training in internal medicine in 2009 at HUH. He served as assistant chief resident during residency and received a pulmonary fellowship at HUH from 2010 to 2012, while also serving as president of the house staff association from 2011 to 2012. After completing his critical care fellowship at the University of Maryland in 2013, Dr. Poddar joined the Department of Medicine faculty of HUCM.
He is involved in numerous HUH and HUCM committees and is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care. He has a particular interest in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and has received numerous awards for his teaching and leadership in the Caribbean at HUH and HUCM.