Dr. Sheetal Chaya is a District Medical Group Attending Physician at Valleywise Health in the Department of Internal Medicine. She is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and also serves as Medical Director of the Department of Medical Subspecialties. She is an Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Associated Faculty Department of Medicine for Creighton University School of Medicine.
Dr. Chhaya also holds a Clinical Assistant Professor position through the University of Arizona Department of Internal Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson University and completed her Fellowship in Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
She went on to join the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School before moving to Arizona where she has been a part of District Medical Group since 2010. She continues to practice clinical Rheumatology while also teaching in the Internal Medicine Residency Program as well as guest lecturing at various venues including Arizona State University where she will often speak on topics regarding Social Determinants of Health Care. Dr. Chhaya is Board Certified by the American College of Rheumatology.