Dr. Mandeep Hundal has joined Gifford Medical Center’s hospitalist inpatient care team. Dr. Hundal was previously a hospitalist in Wyoming at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. He was born in India and attended the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. But Dr. Hundal was looking for residency opportunities outside of his homeland. “I wanted to experience medicine outside of India,” says a personable Dr. Hundal.
He spent a year at George Elliot Hospital in the United Kingdom and then moved to the United States in 2005 to widen his learning experience and be closer to friends. A three-year internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston followed.
His move to Gifford brings him closer to family in the Boston area and to a hospital and community he likes.
“I think it will be a good fit,” said Dr. Hundal. “The team is really nice.”
Hospitalists care for patients who have been hospitalized, or inpatients. Gifford’s hospitalist program started in 2006 with one physician and has grown to include three physicians, Dr. Martin Johns, Dr. Jay Stearns and now Dr. Hundal, and four physician assistants, Sue Burgos, Fred Staples, Josh Gleiner and Patrick Kearney. Medical Director Dr. Josh Plavin has also been working as a hospitalist.
Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Hundal’s clinical interests include inpatient and diagnostic medicine.
Dr. Hundal, now of Randolph, is married. His wife, Dr. Navneet Hundal, is in her final year of pediatrics residency in New York. They are expecting their first child in July and were attracted to Randolph in part due to its appeal as a good place to raise a family.
In his free time, a soft-spoken Dr. Hundal enjoys hiking and reading. And, he said, “I look forward to learning skiing.”