Dr. Natasha E. Kelly, MD, MBA, MSA

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Get to know General Surgeon-General Practitioner Dr. Natasha E. Kelly, who serves patients in underserved areas/population in 5 states including the Naugatuck Valley via Telehealth. 

As a general surgeon-general practitioner who is domiciled in Connecticut, Dr. Kelly performs a range of surgeries and operations, usually focusing on areas and organs of the abdomen and their related organs. She runs her own virtual community health center at Effective Healthcare Medical P.C., with her physical office in Ansonia, Connecticut, and is licensed in 5 states.

Effective Healthcare Medical P.C. has been providing community healthcare solely via Telehealth for over 4 years. The virtual health clinic provides clinical services focusing on urgent care, MAT/Opioid/alcohol use disorder management, pain management, migraine management, orthotic devices/occupational health/rehab medicine, cancer screening, pharmacogenetics, allergy/immunology testing, obesity medicine, behavioral health, women’s health, infertility, polypharmacy prevention/management, and wound care. Additionally, with the advent of point of care devices which can monitor heart rhythms, blood pressure and glucose levels at home,. Telehealth is vast approaching the methodology for preventative and continuous care for the improvement in treatment for chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension.

After earning her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Dr. Kelly went on to perform her residencies in general surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center  and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

With over two decades of experience in her field, Dr. Kelly attributes her success to her love of the medical field, her desire to help patients, her efforts to stay on top of education and research, as well as her strive to affect change in the field of healthcare.. 

Specializing in general surgery and emergency medicine, she is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care. 

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