Shirisha Kamidi is a board-certified internal medicine physician and hospitalist at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Desoto in Southaven, Mississippi. She completed her internal medicine–pediatrics residency at Oakland University William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan after earning her medical degree from Kakatiya Medical College in India.
Dr. Kamidi is passionate about improving patient outcomes and hospital efficiency through quality-improvement initiatives, including reducing hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections and enhancing care for myocardial infarction (MI) and congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. As an Epic Physician Builder, she enjoys optimizing clinical workflows to support both providers and patients. She also contributes to evidence-based practice and academic collaboration, serving as a coauthor of the publication “Outcome on Reinstitution of Anticoagulation Following Intracranial Hemorrhage: A Single Institutional Analysis.”
In addition to her clinical work, she serves as teaching faculty and mentors residents, medical students, and high-school students exploring healthcare careers. She is actively involved in the American College of Physicians, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and she serves on SHM’s Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Advocates Council (2025–2026).
Outside of medicine, she finds balance through yoga, meditation, swimming, and traveling, which aligns with her belief in holistic well-being and lifelong growth.
Shirisha Kamidi is a board-certified internal medicine physician and hospitalist at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Desoto in Southaven, Mississippi. She completed her internal medicine–pediatrics residency at Oakland University William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan after earning her medical degree from Kakatiya Medical College in India.
Dr. Kamidi is passionate about improving patient outcomes and hospital efficiency through quality-improvement initiatives, including reducing hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections and enhancing care for myocardial infarction (MI) and congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. As an Epic Physician Builder, she enjoys optimizing clinical workflows to support both providers and patients. She also contributes to evidence-based practice and academic collaboration, serving as a coauthor of the publication "Outcome on Reinstitution of Anticoagulation Following Intracranial Hemorrhage: A Single Institutional Analysis."
In addition to her clinical work, she serves as teaching faculty and mentors residents, medical students, and high-school students exploring healthcare careers. She is actively involved in the American College of Physicians, the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and she serves on SHM’s Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Advocates Council (2025–2026).
Outside of medicine, she finds balance through yoga, meditation, swimming, and traveling, which aligns with her belief in holistic well-being and lifelong growth.
As an internal medicine physician practicing in Southaven for more than eight years, I’ve learned one simple truth: Prevention is often more powerful than treatment. Every week, I see patients who wish they had come in sooner, before diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease quietly took hold. These conditions rarely appear overnight; they build over years of small imbalances in diet, stress, and lifestyle. The encouraging news is that small, steady …
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