Our Doctors and Providers

Nagarathna Manjappa MD, FASN, FACP

Dr. Nagarathna Manjappa is the founding member of Associated Kidney Specialists of the North Bay. She is a board certified nephrologist and a fellow of the American college of physicians and fellow of the American society of nephrology. She courageously embraced the opportunity to secure a practice that was disintegrating. She has rebuilt the practice and has established a reputation for compassionate and quality care.

She completed her medical school in one of the renowned medical schools in India at Bangalore medical college. She completed residency in 2006 and fellowship in nephrology in 2010 at state University of New York, Brooklyn campus and trained under excellent nephrologists. She has worked in several different states and has gained a rich experience in a short time before she moved permanently to Napa in 2012.

Geetha Narayan MD

Dr. Geetha Narayan joins us here in Napa after a stellar career in prestigious Boston Medical Institutions for 30 years. She completed her fellowship at Tufts Medical Center in 1983 and has since been on the staff at St Elizabeth Medical Center, where she maintained several leadership roles in both clinical and academic arenas, rising to full professorship at Tufts Medical School.

She has extensive experience in clinical nephrology, with a scope ranging from common nephrologic diseases to ICU and tertiary care nephrology. With directorship roles in the division of nephrology and medical education, she was actively involved in overseeing the residency and (nephrology) fellowship training programs. She has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards and on the ‘Best Doctors’ list for consecutive years. She also has several publications to her credit in peer-reviewed journals.

She has family in the Bay area and we are pleased she has moved permanently to Napa from Boston.

 

ANANTH PRAKASH MD

Dr. Prakash joins us in our Napa location. He has had a flourishing private practice in New Jersey for several years and he decided to move to the west coast to be closer to family. He has been working as part time in Lodi prior to joining us and has quickly earned a good reputation at his workplace. He will be traveling a lot during his transition and will be working part time with us. We welcome him to our practice, and will be starting to see patients at the hospital as well as at our Napa office. 

 

MELISSA DATU NP

Melissa Datu is a Nurse Practitioner who joins the practice after specializing in Nephrology in the Chicago area. She has a Master of Science in Nursing from Rush University and is board certified as an Adult Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Her experience also includes 6 years as a certified Medical-Surgical registered nurse at Rush University Medical Center. She relocated to Napa in July 2015. She has joined our practice in 2015 and is well loved by our patients as well as staff members for her thoroughness, compassion, and clinical judgement.