Priya Ponnaiyan, MD

Dr. Priya Ponnaiyan is a board-certified family medicine physician with an interest in women's health, preventive care, and chronic disease management.

Dr. Ponnaiyan works with patients of all ages, from newborns to older adults, often within the same household. Seeing patients within the same family helps to build a healthy family and, in turn, lays the foundation for a healthy community, rooted in long-term relationships and trust with her patients.

She offers age-appropriate immunization and annual wellness exams including, adolescent, sports and camp physicals, adult physicals, Medicare annual wellness exams.

Dr. Ponnaiyan also offers women wellness exams, including contraception management, so patients can avoid an extra trip and have a single annual physical exam in a year.

A strong advocate of healthy lifestyle modifications, Dr. Ponnaiyan’s expertise includes weight management, making healthy food choices, and smoking cessation practices. As most chronic diseases stem from lifestyle choices, making healthy lifestyle modifications can help chronic conditions and their associated complications under control.

Dr. Ponnaiyan attended medical school at Madurai Medical College, and received training in OB/GYN at Thanjavur Medical College in India. Dr. Ponnaiyan later completed her Family Medicine residency at University of Maryland Capital Region Health in 2022.