Rosette Chakkalakal, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine | Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Director | Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Rosette Chakkalakal is an internist at the Grady Memorial Hospital Adult Primary Care Center and a core faculty member at the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center (EGDRC). After completing her clinical training in Internal Medicine/Primary Care at Emory University’s J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program, she pursued health services research training as a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University.

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Chakkalakal focuses on reducing the burden of type 2 diabetes in high-risk populations through research, teaching, and clinical practice. With funding from NIH, PCORI, and CDC/Tennessee Department of Health, she has led studies on diabetes medication use within the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), tested strategies to improve type 2 diabetes prevention and management in clinics serving low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations, examined peripartum weight management in women with gestational diabetes, and evaluated the implementation of the National Diabetes Prevention Program using the RE-AIM framework.