St. Mary's cardiologists

Richard Bryan Jr., M.D., Ram Challapalli, M.D., Sri Challapalli, M.D., Eric Drummer, M.D., and Anita Kedia, M.D., have joined Saint Mary's Center for Health Cardiology Group.

Bryan, who has practiced in northern Nevada for 16 years, has been named medical director of the Heart Institute. He is a University of Kentucky cardiovascular disease fellow.

Ram Challapalli, a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, completed his residency in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. and fellowships at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush Presbyterian - St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Ill.

Sri Challapalli, a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, completed a residency at Emory University Hospitals in Atlanta, Ga. and Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio as well as fellowships in cardiovascular medicine from University Hospitals of Cleveland and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Drummer previously served as the medical director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Renown Health for 20 years. He graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, completed an internship and residency from Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in New York and a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Kedia earned her doctor of medicine degree at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport and completed a residency and internship at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio and a cardiology fellowship at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, N.M.