Board-Certified Family Physician | Obesity Medicine Specialist | Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship-Trained
Damodar Poudel, MD, FAAFP, DABOM
Dr. Damodar Poudel is a board-certified family physician with more than two decades of experience providing comprehensive primary care. He earned his medical degree from the Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University in Nepal and completed his Family Medicine Residency at St. Elizabeth Health Center/NEOMED in Youngstown, Ohio. He later completed advanced fellowship training in Primary Care Psychiatry through the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Poudel spent 18 years serving patients in southern Ohio, where he held clinical leadership roles and helped advance the integration of primary care and behavioral health. His clinical interests include preventive care, chronic disease management, obesity medicine, behavioral health, and addiction medicine.
Dr. Poudel has also served as Community faculty with The Ohio State University College of Medicine and has mentored medical and other healthcare professional students throughout his career.
He believes in listening carefully, building lasting relationships, and providing compassionate, personalized care that addresses the whole person mind and body.
