Samyukta Bhattarai, MD - MUSC Health Primary Care

Dr. Joshua Neal is an Obesity Medicine physician at MUSC, where he is an assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before attending medical school at Albany Medical College. Dr. Neal completed his residency in Family Medicine at Eisenhower Army Medical Center and served four years abroad with the U.S. Army. Before joining MUSC, he was the regional medical director for Ascension St. Vincent's Bariatric Medical Weight Management Program. He has also worked in urgent and primary care.Dr. Neal is board-certified in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine. He has special interests in weight management and culinary medicine. His background in family medicine, urgent care, concierge medicine, and military medicine helps to inform a comprehensive approach to patient care. He understands that everyone has a unique relationship with food and weight. He works to support each patient in reaching their own goals while improving the determinants of metabolic health.

Dr. Nicholas Shungu is a family medicine physician at MUSC Health who strives to provide compassionate and high quality care to patients of all ages and backgrounds. His clinical interests include chronic disease management, self-care, care for underserved populations, and medical student education. He provides office-based procedures including trigger point injections, joint injections, long-term contraception, and treatment of warts and calluses. He has a special interest in care for adolescents and individuals with HIV. Dr. Shungu attended Duke University for college and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in family medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, where he also served as chief resident. He practiced in Philadelphia and Chapel Hill before relocating to Charleston. While practicing in North Carolina, he was recognized with the UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence. He has also been the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson University Department of Family Medicine Faculty Teaching Award. Dr. Shungu is committed to addressing healthcare disparities through patient care, teaching, and research. He loves to learn from and grow with his patients. His favorite part of practicing medicine are the relationships he is able to establish with a diverse group of people. He is proudly Safe Zone trained.

Dr. Rene Rosati is an interventional spine physiatrist who provides non-surgical spine care to reduce patients pain so they can return to activities they enjoy. She primarily focuses on musculoskeletal and spine conditions such as arthritis in the low back or neck, degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spinal stenosis, whiplash syndrome, sciatica, disc herniation, buttock pain, and muscle spasms. Treatment may include physical therapy, image-guided epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, or more advanced procedures such as radiofrequency ablation, peripheral nerve stimulator placement, or vertebral augmentation. She performs nerve conduction studies and EMG to diagnose peripheral nerve injury. Dr. Rosati is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She went to medical school at VCOM in Spartanburg, South Carolina, completed her residency at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee, and further sub-specialized with a fellowship in Interventional Spine at Emory in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Rosati has published articles on the use of blood thinners during spine procedures and the presence of buttock pain stemming from the sacroiliac complex. She has presented her research at national conferences. Dr. Rosati is also interested in how music, art, and nature can play a role in the rehabilitation process. She started a concert series at the Vanderbilt rehabilitation hospital to give up-and-coming musicians a place to perform and brighten patients spirits. She also established a garden therapy program, where patients would plant herbs outside or arrange floral bouquets to give to their caretakers. She encourages her patients to share their goals and hobbies with her so that she may tailor their treatment to meet their specific needs.She serves on the Governance Committee and the Public Affairs Committee of the North American Spine Society (NASS) and hosts the NASS podcast series on interventional spine procedures. She is a former Board of Trustee member of the South Carolina Medical Association. Dr. Rosati serves as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine and enjoys teaching medical students and residents about her specialty. She is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona. In her free time, she enjoys learning about historic architecture, oil painting in plein air, and growing vegetables and flowers in her garden.