Achala Donuru, MD, MBBS

Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology

My education and training

  • Medical School: Gandhi Medical College
  • Residency: Leicester Royal Infirmary

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
  • Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Donuru is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Rupali Jain, MD, Julia C. Jacob, MD, John D. Jacob, MD, Drew A. Torigian, MD, and Achala Donuru, MBBS Evolving Landscape of Chest Wall Reconstruction A Multimodality Imaging Approach , Symposium Review Article, Journal of Thoracic Imaging, , 41(3): 2026 Selected as Editor's Pick.

Isabelle C. Pappas, Quincy A. Hathaway, Hubert A. Gbate, Yashbir Singh, Elena Ghotbi, Friedrich D. Knollmann, Eduardo Mortani Barbosa, Jr., Achala Donuru, Dongming Xu A 10-Year Comprehensive, Single-Center, Retrospective Analysis on Juxtapleural Nodules: Insights into Classification and Risk. , Diagnostics , 16(11)(1663): 2026

Vinay Kandula, Drew Torigian, Maruti Kumaran, Ashwin Upadhyay, Achala Donuru. Is It IMT? Differentiating Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor from Benign and Malignant Mimics. , ARRS 2026 Annual Meeting: 2026

Christian Persichetti MD, Ashwin Upadhyay BS, Iman Yazdani MD, Maruti Kumaran MD, FRCR, Achala Donuru, MBBS, FRCR CT Findings Related to Intraparenchymal Placement of Chest Tubes , Society of Thoracic Radiology Annual Meeting : 2026

Woodlynn Daniel MD, Achala Donuru MBBS FRCR, Dongming Xu MD PhD Juxtapleural Nodules <10mm: A Call for Caution Beyond LUNG-Rads Criteria , Society of Thoracic Radiology Annual meeting : 2026

Rupali Jain, Ashwin Upadhyay, Achala Donuru "Pushed Aside": Imaging Clues to Extrapleural Thoracic Masses , Society of Thoracic Radiology Annual Meeting : 2026

Rupali Jain, Narainder Gupta, Achala Donuru Rare Perifissural Air in Barotrauma-Induced Pneumomediastinum , Lung India, 43(1): 2026

Rithika Sriram, Yashasvi Shukla, Ashwin Upadhyay, Vinay Kandula, Achala Donuru Thoracic pseudoaneurysms: A multivessel imaging review of aetiologies, imaging features and management implications , Lung India : 2026

Nachiappan AC*, Hu AC*, Stecher P, Su Y, Donuru A, Jacob JCM, Dave JK, Simpson SA, Pugliese SC, Maforo NG, Jamal F Defining an Upper HU Threshold for Acute Pulmonary Embolism in CT Pulmonary Angiography. , Journal of Thoracic Imaging. Accepted. : 2026

Yashasvi Shukla, Vinay Kandula, Ghanwa Khawaja, Maruti Kumaran, Nikolina Dioufa, Achala Donuru. The Great Imitators: Fungal and Fungal-Like Pneumonias with Pathological Correlation. , Roentgen Ray Review Categorical Course Highlight - Invited article. In press.: 2026