Bindu K. Swaroop
Biography
Bindu K. Swaroop, M.D., is Chief of Staff at VA Long Beach Healthcare System and Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science. She also holds an appointment as HS Clinical Professor WOS, Step 2 in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Swaroop received her M.D. from St. George's University School of Medicine and completed her residency training at the UCLA-VA Greater Los Angeles Internal Medicine Training Program, where she served as Chief Resident at Cedars Sinai-VA.
From 2013 to 2020, Swaroop served as Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at the University of California, Irvine, where she also held the position of Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. During her tenure at UC Irvine, she co-founded and directed the LIGHT Program, a faculty development initiative for the Department of Medicine. She has received multiple teaching awards, including Attending of the Year honors and the Outstanding Program Director GME Leadership Award from UC Irvine Health.
Swaroop is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and completed the American College of Physicians Leadership Academy in 2021. She has served on the High Value Alliance committee of the Academic Alliance for Internal Medicine and is a founding member of the High Value Practice Academic Alliance. Her work has focused on medical education, high value care curriculum development, and faculty development in academic medicine.
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- BA in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
- MD in Medicine, St. George's University, School of Medicine, 2004
Distinctions
- Fellowship, American College of Physicians, 2017
- Doctor's Choice Award, VA Long Beach Medical Center, 2022, 2024
- Innovation in Mentoring, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 2021
- Service Recognition Award, American College of Physicians Region II, 2019
- Attending of the Year - Most Inspiring, UC Irvine Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2020
- Physician of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association, 2017, 2020
- Teaching Attending of the Year, UC Irvine Medical Center UCI Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2019
- Outstanding Program Director, GME Leadership Award, UC Irvine Health, 2018
- Attending of the Year - Most Inspiring, UCI IM Residency Program, 2017
- UCI Ward Attending of the Year, UCI IM Residency Program, 2016
Areas of Expertise
- Medical Education Leadership
- High Value Care Curriculum
- Faculty Development Programs
- Resident Mentoring Strategies
- Patient Centered Care Models
- Psychological Safety Implementation
- Diagnostic Overshadowing Prevention
Recent Publications
- Tran MH, Perez-Alvarez, Swaroop B, “Synthetic Marijuana: An Unexpected Cause of Coagulopathy”, Transfusion, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 2743-2744, 2018.
- Swaroop BK, Rucker L, “Cost awareness for residents: Integrating high value, cost conscious care into a residency curriculum”, Academic Internal Medicine Insight, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 8-9, 2013.
- Chetty KG, Swaroop BK, Mazdisian F, “Cerebral abscess: a rare complication of flexible bronchoscopy”, J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 165-6, 2010.
- Kota B, Prasad AS, Economides C, Singh BN, “Levosimendan and calcium sensitization of the contractile proteins in cardiac muscle: impact on heart failure”, J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 269-78, 2008.
Contact Information
Email: bswaroop@uci.edu
Address: City Tower Suite 500, Irvine, CA 92697-4076
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Last updated on 2/17/2026.