{"id":24451,"date":"2023-08-09T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=24451"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T21:36:58","slug":"samaritan-welcomes-lakshna-sankar-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/samaritan-welcomes-lakshna-sankar-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaritan Welcomes Lakshna Sankar, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Samaritan Welcomes Lakshna Sankar, MD<\/h1>\t\t<time>August 9, 2023<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_6e4afea69297226d667c5570e58f68b0\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"video-mobile\"><figure><div class=\"video-control-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/aomuPlvhVPw\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><button class=\"video-modal-trigger iconfont-play1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-id=\"aomuPlvhVPw\" data-title=\"\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Play Video<\/span><\/button><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Nephrologist <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/sankar-lakshna-1386120129\/\">Lakshna Sankar, MD<\/a>, has joined Samaritan Kidney Specialists \u2013 Corvallis. She specializes in treating kidney disease and high blood pressure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She earned a medical degree at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute and completed residency training in internal medicine at Canton Medical Education Foundation and in pathology at Coimbatore Medical College. She completed a fellowship in nephrology at Geisinger Medical Center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was inspired to become a physician by a trusted, knowledgeable doctor who cared for a family member. She strives to provide the same well-rounded and compassionate care to her patients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to walk with them through their entire journey, whether that be a transplant, dialysis or end-of-life care,\u201d Dr. Sankar said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She chose nephrology for the intellectual challenge of the specialty. Working at Samaritan also appealed to her because she lives near family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe other reason is I wanted to be a part of a community-based hospital,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Away from the office, Dr. Sankar likes doing artwork, including quilling, glass painting and pencil sketching, as well as spending time with family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sankar is accepting new patients and referrals. For more information, call <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/find-a-location\/samaritan-kidney-specialists-corvallis\/\">Samaritan Kidney Specialists &#8211; Corvallis<\/a> at&nbsp;<br><a href=\"tel:541-768-6930\">541-768-6930<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"video-sidebar\"><figure><div class=\"video-control-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/aomuPlvhVPw\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><button class=\"video-modal-trigger iconfont-play1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-id=\"aomuPlvhVPw\" data-title=\"\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Play Video<\/span><\/button><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lakshna-Sankar-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lakshna Sankar, MD\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lakshna-Sankar-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lakshna-Sankar-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lakshna-Sankar-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lakshna Sankar is a physician at Samaritan Health Services in Corvallis, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[],"news-types":[272],"services":[249],"specialty":[20],"class_list":["post-24451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-types-news","services-nephrology","specialty-nephrology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=24451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}