Sravanthi Utpala, M.D.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

905 John Hopkins Drive
Greenville, NC 27834
Phone: 252-744-1406
Email: utpalas17@ecu.edu

Faculty Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor

Employment

Clinical Assistant Professor

07/2022 – Present
Department of Psychiatry
Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University

Education and Training

Fellowship in Addiction Medicine

2022
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Residency in Psychiatry

2021
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC

Medical School

2009
NTR University of Health Sciences
S.V.S. Medical College, India

Medical Licensure/Board Certifications

  • North Carolina Medical License
  • Board Certified in Psychiatry
  • Board Certified in Addiction Medicine

Committees

  • Personal Committee
  • Clinical Competency Committee

Professional Organizations

  • American Society of Addiction Medicine
  • American College of Academic Addiction Medicine
  • North Carolina Psychiatric Association

Publications

Zsolt J. Nagykaldi, PhD, Ami Dave, MS3, Connor J. Kristof, MS3,Tanya N. Watts,MS4, Sravanthi Utpala, MD, Elizabeth Wickersham, MD. Improving Patient-Clinician Conversations during Annual Wellness Visits. J Am Board Fam Med March-April 2017 vol. 30 no. 2 161-169

Presentations

  • Bringing change by building resilience – “Remediation of struggling medical resident”
    Won best poster award in medical education initiative category, 2021
  • Improving screening for bipolar disorder – “Implementation of measurement based care in psychiatry”
    Poster presented at Vidant GME research week, 2021
  • “Delusion Cuts Deep- Journey of Inventive Unconscious mind”
    Poster presented at NCPA Annual meeting, 2019
  • “Cotards Syndrome Effectively Treated with ECT”
    Poster presented at NCPA Annual Meeting, 2018
  • Yearly Didactic series on Addictive Disorders for PGY 2, 3, 4th years
  • Medical student lectures on Addiction, Neurobiology of Addiction, Epidemiology
  • Eastern AHEC presentations On Controlled substances – 03/23
  • Carolina East Grand Rounds in Alcohol Withdrawal – 03/2023
  • Successful high dose SL Buprenorphine induction in pregnancy
    Poster presented at Psych Congress and Association of Medicine and Psychiatry 08/23