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My Journey into Health Care
Empowering individuals through compassionate, personalized care to achieve their health and wellness goals—because every journey is unique and every success is celebrated.
Dr. Pabbathi
My Story
Smitha Pabbathi, M.D., F.A.C.P, D.A.B.O.M
Internal Medicine
Dr. Smitha Pabbathi is dedicated to the art of healthy living and passionate about delivering exceptional clinical care. She is a recognized physician who has touched many lives through her expert clinical care, compassion, mentorship and teaching for over 15 years of clinical practice in academic medicine. She received her Bachelor’ s in Science from Florida State University and her medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Florida in 2007. Following her training, she joined the Division of Hospital Medicine faculty at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, caring for hospitalized oncology patients until 2010. Dr. Pabbathi joined the faculty at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and University of South Florida College of Medicine in 2011 to continue to care for hospitalized oncology patients and later she became the Program Leader of the Survivorship Program at the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Outpatient Center at McKinley Campus until 2024. Her care of cancer survivors in the clinic and complex hospitalized oncology patients has inspired a holistic approach to wellness.
Dual board-certified in Internal and Obesity medicine, Dr. Pabbathi’s offers patient-centered care with an evidence-based approach in private practice. She offers two types of clinical care options. The first is focused consultation on medical weight loss and weight management. The second focus is delivering personalized, comprehensive internal medicine care in a concierge environment specializing in prevention and early detection.
My Mission
Her visionary approach empowers patients to live healthier by integrating traditional medicine practices with novel approaches such as culinary medicine highlighting what we eat and how we prepare meals impacts our health. She is a member of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, a leading organization centered on the connection of food and preventative health. She is driven to explore human health and its connection to soil health and ultimately the health of our planet.
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