Kavitha Reddy, M.D. FAAEM
Regent
- Physician, Veterans Health Administration, St. Louis Healthcare System – Missouri

Dr. Kavitha Reddy trained at University of Missouri in Kansas City, receiving her BLA and MD from that institution in 2000.聽 She completed her residency in emergency medicine at University of Illinois in Chicago in 2003 and is certified through the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She has practiced in several academic, community, and rural hospitals and is a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians.聽 She graduated from the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellowship in 2014.
Kavitha Reddy is currently an emergency medicine physician at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) St. Louis Healthcare System in Missouri.聽 She had practiced at Jesse Brown VAMC in Chicago IL for 5 years prior to that where she was the patient-centered care coordinator and Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has received several awards for excellence in teaching medical students and residents.
She served as the Whole Health System Clinical Director at the VHA St. Louis Healthcare System for 3 years, one of the flagship facilities for Whole Health deployment. She has worked closely with the VHA Office of Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Transformation (VHA OPCC & CT) as a clinical champion for the Integrative Health Coordinating Center since 2011, helping with several projects such as policy, regulation, creating business infrastructure for delivery of complementary and integrative health, and whole health clinical care transformational efforts .
She was a Member-At-Large on the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine and Health from 2022-2025. She has been author and co-author for numerous publications related to integrative medicine and health and recent guest editor for a special edition of integrative medicine and health in the American Journal of Medicine.
She is currently performing the duties of Executive Director for VHA OPCC & CT as well as Executive Sponsor for Employee Whole Health and Chief Well-Being Officer efforts. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine.
Her personal interests include hiking, traveling, reading, seeing live music, and spending time with friends and family.