Arora, Vikram, MD

Dr. Arora is originally from India and was born and brought up in its capital city of New Delhi. He finished his medical schooling from Maulana Azad Medical College, where his achievements ranged from asthma research to captaining the college basketball team. Following graduation, he joined the Temple University Family Medicine Program at Allentown, PA. During his residency, he was nominated Chief Resident and was the recipient of the Paul L Hermany Excellence in teaching award. After completing his residency he joined group practice for 2 years, in addition to running an urgent care center and being a part-time employee health physician at the hospital.

Dr. Arora’s clinical interests include physician-patient communication, evidenced-based medicine, patient education and efficient utilization of information technology resources for advancement of patient care.

Dr. Arora received his MPH degree from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. In June of 2006, Dr Arora had taken the bold step of pursuing teaching as career in family medicine by joining a 2-year Faculty development fellowship program at UPMC St Margaret. He finished his fellowship in 2008 with scholarly projects in “Internet as a Patient Education and Communication Tool” and “Impact of Patient Literacy on Diabetic Patient Education”.

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