Dr. Sarika Shanmukayya, MD

Dr. Sarika Shanmukayya earned her medical degree from Sri Siddhartha Medical College in Tumkur, Karnataka, India, and completed her internal medicine residency at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Board-certified in internal medicine, Dr. Shanmukayya treats adult patients 18 and older and speaks Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam.

Dr. Shanmukkayya’s primary clinical interests are preventive medicine, lifestyle medicine and obesity. She treats a wide variety of acute and chronic illnesses, with specialized experience in allergies, asthma and nephrology. She provides intra-articular steroid knee injections, shoulder injections, trochanteric bursa injections and pap smear testing.

Growing up in India, Dr. Shanmukayya saw a staggering number of poor and sick people but also saw an unlimited potential to help. That awareness, along with her keen interest in the sciences, inspired her to become a physician.

She sees teamwork and strong, enduring relationships as key to helping people achieve long-term wellness goals. She wants her patients to see her as an excellent clinician who goes above and beyond for them, a caring and understanding physician, a good listener and their best advocate.

Dr. Shanmukayya lives in The Woodlands.