Rama Pemmaraju Rao, MD is a board-certified physician in Psychiatry. He was previously board-certified in both Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. Re-certification is currently pending. He is certified by the Board of Holistic Medicine as well. Formerly assistant clinical professor at University of Alabama Medical School/Children's Hospital in psychiatry/child psychiatric medicine, he is now working in public and private practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.

He continues to deepen his process in training and education in integrative and complementary medicine. His goal is to bring the best of East and West into the medical setting, to afford optimal healing. His vision is to create a broad new paradigm in health and medicine through teaching, education, and through the manifestation of new clinic models that blend the Orient and the Occident.

Dr. Pemmaraju Rao is a native Texan born in San Antonio, Texas, and whose parents and ancestry are from South India. He has blended the best of East and West in his life and has seen first-hand issues in the human condition that warrant a broader outlook and approach to health and healing.

He completed medical training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and continued residency in medical psychiatry, and child psychiatry at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals, Harvard Medical School (Children's Hospital), and Dallas Presbyterian Hospitals.

Dr. Pemmaraju Rao has appeared regularly on television and radio in Birmingham, Alabama and Dallas, Texas regarding health, healing, and spirituality.

He has had a lifelong background in Yoga and its practices. His deepest dream is to convey the teachings and principles of spirituality and healing inspired by the ideals of a number of meditation masters he has personally followed throughout the world.

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