Dr. Nirupama G Shekar, MD



Internal Medicine   -  Texas,  McAllen

 Overview

Dr. Nirupama G Shekar, MD works in McAllen, Texas is a specialist in Internal Medicine and graduated Bangalore Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University Of Health Sciences in 1989. Dr. Shekar is affiliated with Mission Regional Medical Center, Rio Grande Regional Hospital and practicing for 34 years

 Specialties

  • Internal Medicine

 Conditions

• Aphasia
• Arterial Revascularization
• Bilateral Cataracts
• Bile Duct Procedure
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Carcinoma
• Cervical Spine Reconstruction
• Chronic Headache
• Chronic Pain Management
• Congenital Mitral Stenosis
  ...
• Demyelinating Disorders
• Diseases Contagious from Safe Sex
• Facet Joint Nerve Ablation
• Food Allergy - Codfish
• Food Allergy - Fruit
• Food Allergy - Tree Nuts
• Functional Movement Screening
• Gastrointestinal Surgery, Laproscopic
• Hand Neuropathy
• Herbal Agent Adverse Reaction - Echinacea
• Hypnosis (Medical Hypnotherapy)
• Hyposmolality and Hyponatremia
• Infantile Psoriasis
• Intrauterine Device Management
• Joint Implant
• Juvenile Macular Degeneration
• Knee Pain
• Lumbar Decompression Therapy
• Memory Disorders
• Mental Retardation, X-Linked Recessive - Macrocephaly - Ciliary Dysfunction
• Metabolic Rate Testing
• Microscopic Ulcerative Colitis
• Minimally Invasive Resection of Mediastinal Tumor
• Mitochondrial Diseases
• Muscle Hypotonia
• Muscular Dystrophy, Congenital, Type 1C
• Neurofibromatosis, Type 2
• Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer
• Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
• Optic Ataxia
• Outpatient and inpatient dialysis supervision and management [More]
• Photosensitivity
• Popliteal Entrapment
• Post-Dysenteric Arthropathy
• Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
• Prolactinoma
• Retinoschisis, Autosomal Dominant
• Salivary Gland Stones
• Scoliosis With Unilateral Unsegmented Bar
• Shoulder Fractures
• Skin Lesion
• Stitches
• The provision of follow-up treatment for patients who have undergone kidney transplants
• The provision of nutritional information for patients with kidney disease
• Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy
• Tube Feeding
• Venous Thromboembolic Disease
• Vulvovaginitis
• Warts
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 Procedures

• Acute Leukemia
• Adrenal Gland Cancer
• Anal and Rectal Cancer
• Anemia
• Bladder Cancer
• Bone Marrow Biopsy
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Carcinoma in Situ
  ...
• Central Nervous System Lymphoma
• Cervical Cancer
• Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
• Coagulation Disorders (incl. Hemophilia)
• Colorectal Cancer
• ENT Cancer
• Esophageal Cancer
• Fallopian Tube Cancer
• Gallbladder and Biliary Tract Cancer
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Hypercoagulable State
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
• Kaposi's Sarcoma
• Laryngeal Cancer
• Leukocytosis
• Liver Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Lymphoma
• Macroglobulinemia (incl. Waldenstrom's )
• Mediastinal Tumors, Malignant
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Myeloma
• Myeloproliferative Disorders
• Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Neutropenia
• Nodular Lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Oral Cancer
• Osteosarcoma
• Ovarian Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Pancytopenia
• Pleura Cancer
• Pleural Neoplasm, Malignant
• Polycythemia Rubra Vera
• Prostate Cancer
• Renal (Kidney) Cancer
• Salivary Gland Cancer
• Secondary Malignancies
• Sickle Cell Disease
• Skin Cancer
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Stomach and Small Intestine Cancer
• Stomach Cancer
• Throat Cancer (Hypopharyngeal)
• Throat Cancer (Oropharyngeal)
• Thrombocytosis
• Thyroid Cancer
• Uterine Cancer
• von Willebrand Disease
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 Board Certifications

  • Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine

 Years Since Graduation

  • 34

 State License

  • Texas

 Education & Training

Medical School

Bangalore Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University Of Health Sciences

Graduated: 1989

Residency Hospital

Brookdale University Hospital Med Center

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 Office Locations


Primary location

 Office Address
1901 South Col Rowe Boulevard
Texas (TX)
McAllen
78503
 Phone:(956) 687-5150

Accepting New Patients

  • Yes
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 Map & Directions



Office Address, 1901 South Col Rowe Boulevard, McAllen, Texas (TX), 78503




 Insurances Accepted (check insurance plans)

  • Aetna
  • Blue Card PPO
  • Blue Choice
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
  • CHAMPVA
  • Choice Plus POS
  • Choice Plus POS II
  • Cigna
  • Cigna PPO
  • Commercial Insurance Company
  • Coventry Health Care
  • First Health (Coventry Health Care)
  • First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
  • Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
  • HealthSmart
  • Humana
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Medicare MCR
  • Medico
  • Molina
  • Molina Healthcare
  • MultiPlan
  • MultiPlan PPO
  • Mutual of Omaha
  • Navigate HMO
  • Navigate POS
  • Open Access Plus
  • Options PPO
  • PHCS Network PPO
  • Tricare
  • Ucare
  • United Healthcare
  • UnitedHealthCare

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 Affiliated Hospitals





Mission Regional Medical Center

900 South Bryan Road Texas TX, Mission, 78572

Consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation and a recipient of HealthGrades Service Excellence Awards™ (granted to hospitals in the top 5% or 10% in the nation for objective patient outcomes, i.e. mortality and complication rates) for the past four years in Maternity Care,...


 (956) 323-9000


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Rio Grande Regional Hospital

101 East Ridge Road Texas TX, McAllen, 78503

Rio Grande Regional Hospital is a hospital located in Mcallen, TX. Procedures/Diagnosis costs are at the state average in 6 of 10 procedures. Length of Stay is at the state average in 9 of 10 procedures.



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