Four doctors join Silver Cross medical staff

Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox recently announced the following appointments:

• Sunitha Avula, M.D., board certified internal medicine physician, has joined the Silver Cross medical staff. Dr. Avula completed an internal medicine residency at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Her office is located with Women's Primary Health Partners in the Silver Cross Health Center, 12701 W. 143rd St., Suite 230, Homer Glen. To schedule an appointment, call (708) 301-6702.

• Pankaj Jain, M.D., pulmonology and board certified internal medicine physician, has joined the Silver Cross medical staff. Dr. Jain completed an internal medicine residency at Chicago Medical School in North Chicago; and a pulmonary critical care fellowship at St. Lukes Roosevelt Medical Center in New York, NY. His office is located with Internal Medicine Physicians, Inc., 9875 W. Lincoln Hwy., Ste. 104, Frankfort. To schedule an appointment, call (815) 464-1333

• Bassel Kazkaz, M.D., clinical neurophysiology and board certified psychiatry and neurology physician, has joined the Silver Cross medical staff. Dr. Kazkaz completed a neurology residency at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago; and a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, IA. His office is located with Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group Neurosciences, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., Ste. 450, New Lenox. To schedule an appointment, call (815) 723-4387.

• Radhika Peddinti, M.D., board certified pediatric and hematology/oncology physician has joined the Silver Cross medical staff. Dr. Peddinti completed a pediatrics residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago; and a pediatric hematology oncology fellowship at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Her office is located with the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross, 1850 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox. To schedule an appointment, call (815) 300-1400.