Dr. Ali Akhtar
Medical Director
Dr. Akhtar, current Academic Hospitalist and Associate Program Director in Internal Medicine at Roger Williams Medical Center, holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Dow Medical College. He is a current Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Brown University Alpert School of Medicine, where he is a recipient of the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the Elsie Colletta Leadership Fund – Geriatrics Faculty Award. Dr. Akhtar is a member of the Curriculum Committee, Resident Advisor Committee, Resident Review Committee in the Department of Medicine at Roger Williams Medical Center and is also a member of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and American Society of Hospital Medicine.
Dr. Naresh Dasari
Attending Physician
Naresh Dasari, MD – Dr. Dasari specializes in Geriatric Psychiatry and has experience managing dementia and specialized psychiatric units at Roger Williams Medical Center and several other skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island. As a member of the Harvard Medical School Multi-Campus Geriatric Fellowship, Dr. Dasari has managed Geriatric Psych units and provided consultations for management of psychiatric behaviors on post-operative surgical and orthopedic units at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, and VA Medical Center.
Hussain Khawaja, MD
Dementia Program Director & Subacute Attending Physician
Hussain Khawaja, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is currently a member of the American College of Physicians, and has been practicing Internal Medicine independently since 2011.
Susie L. Hu, MD
CKD Program Director
Susie L. Hu, MD, completed her internal medicine residency training and nephrology fellowship at Tufts Medical Center and joined the Division of Kidney Disease and Hypertension of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2003. Dr. Hu is currently the Interim Chief of the Division. She established the Peritoneal Dialysis program at Rhode Island Hospital and also serves as the medical director for the Rhode Island Hospital Dialysis Program in addition to her role as Medical Director of the Nephrology program at Lincolnwood Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. She actively teaches at Brown Medical School at all levels of training, and is involved with education nationally for the American Society of Nephrology.
