Primary Care & Internal Medicine
Janaki C. Kuruppu, MD
Kelly Collaborative Medicine
Dr. Janaki C. Kuruppu is a board-certified internist and infectious-disease specialist at Kelly Collaborative Medicine in Silver Spring, MD, offering adult primary care with unusual depth in infection and immunity.
Background and training
Dr. Kuruppu completed her undergraduate degree in biology with honors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, before coming to the Washington area in 1992 for medical school at George Washington University. She trained in internal medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and then completed an infectious-disease fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious disease.
Why patients choose Dr. Kuruppu
Her infectious-disease training gives Dr. Kuruppu a distinctive edge in primary care — from vaccine questions and travel medicine to stubborn infections and complex diagnoses — while she still provides the full range of everyday adult care. Practicing alongside the team at Kelly Collaborative Medicine, she offers a collaborative, relationship-centered approach.
Practice focus
Adult primary care, preventive medicine, and the evaluation and management of infectious diseases.
Languages and access
Dr. Kuruppu sees patients in English at Kelly Collaborative Medicine in Silver Spring, accepts new patients, and offers telehealth. Confirm insurance participation and availability with the office before booking.
Profile last fact-checked July 13, 2026. Information reflects publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with the practice before booking.
How Dr. Kuruppu compares
Context from the 139 providers we track across Bethesda and Montgomery County.
The only provider we list offering infectious disease
1 of the 130 providers who list their focus areas name infectious disease.
1 of 2 we list at Kelly Collaborative Medicine
We cover 2 providers at Kelly Collaborative Medicine.
1 of 4 from George Washington University School of Medicine
4 of the 107 doctors whose medical school we record studied at George Washington University School of Medicine.
Trained in the DC–Baltimore area
Completed residency locally, like 32% of the 87 doctors whose residency we record.
Medical school: George Washington University School of Medicine — Washington, DC, United States.
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. How we build this list.
Where Dr. Kuruppu sits by experience
Dr. Kuruppu finished medical school in 1996, 30 years ago. Of the 135 providers in our registry whose graduation year we could verify, 49 finished earlier, 80 finished later, and 5 finished the same year.
1965–69
1 provider finished 1965–19691970–74
2 providers finished 1970–19741975–79
4 providers finished 1975–19791980–84
13 providers finished 1980–19841985–89
12 providers finished 1985–19891990–94
14 providers finished 1990–1994Dr. Kuruppu1996
1995–99
27 providers finished 1995–19992000–04
20 providers finished 2000–20042005–09
19 providers finished 2005–20092010–14
17 providers finished 2010–20142015–19
4 providers finished 2015–20192020–24
2 providers finished 2020–2024Among the 110 physicians we list, 45 finished medical school earlier — the median for that group is 1998.
All 12 bands
| Graduated | Providers |
|---|---|
| 1965–1969 | 1 |
| 1970–1974 | 2 |
| 1975–1979 | 4 |
| 1980–1984 | 13 |
| 1985–1989 | 12 |
| 1990–1994 | 14 |
| 1995–1999 — Dr. Kuruppu | 27 |
| 2000–2004 | 20 |
| 2005–2009 | 19 |
| 2010–2014 | 17 |
| 2015–2019 | 4 |
| 2020–2024 | 2 |
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 135 of 139 profiles with a graduation year we could verify against a primary source; the remaining 4 are left out rather than estimated. How we build this list.
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