Caring for Adults

Signature Medicine cares for you when you are sick and yet works hard to keep you healthy. While you can choose your service level, the medical care you receive remains the same. As a double board-certified physician in internal medicine and geriatrics, Dr. Sitapara can focus on a wide range of conditions while providing comprehensive and long-term care. And as a geriatrician, Dr. Sitapara can help you be your best as you age and will work with you to make prevention your primary focus.

Why an Internist?

An internist/geriatrician cares for anyone over the age of 15 and has spent at least three of the seven or more years of medical training learning how to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases primarily impacting adults. Often an Internist is confused with a general practitioner. Like a family practitioner, an Internist may act as a primary care provider however there are significant differences. An Internist studies medicine as it pertains to the health of internal organs and disease prevention. Internists have special training in dealing with complex chronic illness perhaps even treating several different illnesses at the same time. While a family practitioner spends nine months of residency studying adult diseases, an Internist will devote at least three years of medical education studying adult medicine! And while a family practitioner cares for all ages, an Internist is specialty trained to focus on adults. Internists are sometimes referred to as the doctor’s doctor because they are often called upon to act as consultant to other physicians to help solve puzzling diagnostic problems.

Dr. Sitapara is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and a lifelong member of the American College of Physicians.