Sheila Sudhakar, M.D.

Sheila Sudhakar is currently a Senior Medical Director for Cigna Medical Group’s (CMG) East area. Board certified in Internal medicine, she joined CMG in 2003 as a primary care provider practicing outpatient internal medicine.  During clinical practice, her passions included chronic disease management, prevention, and patient education of lifestyle-based disease processes.  Her specialty focus areas included diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia, and she approached her patients holistically by emphasizing optimal health for the mind and body focusing on nutrition, exercise, stress-management, and living an overall healthy life.  Currently, she coaches and mentors clinicians and clinician leaders, manages 10 clinics in the East Region of CMG in conjunction with her operational dyad partner, and leads organizational clinical initiatives to improve patient outcomes including the integration of behavioral health into primary care and management of chronic disease. Outside of her work at CMG, Sheila enjoys playing music, cooking, hiking, and participating in philanthropic athletic events with her husband, son, and daughter.