2022, 2023
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
FOUNDING PHYSICIAN, SELVARA HEALTH
Dr. Pranav K. Sharma, MD.
FACC · FCCP · FASN · D-ABOM
Quadruple American board-certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Critical Care, and Obesity Medicine. Medical Director of Intensive Care Services at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital. Clinical Professor at the University of Pikeville, Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine. Selvara's medical conscience, and the physician behind every protocol.
4×American board certifications
3College fellowships (FACC, FCCP, FASN)
16peer-reviewed publications
15+years on the front line of medicine
Dr. Sharma at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, where he serves as Medical Director of ICU.
A LETTER FROM THE DOCTOR
Why I joined Selvara.
For fifteen years I have stood at the bedside of men who arrived too late. Men in their forties and fifties, septic, in heart failure, on dialysis, on ECMO, who if you traced their charts back you would find the same quiet sentence written by their primary years earlier: "Testosterone borderline. Recheck if symptomatic." Or "BMI 32. Counseled on lifestyle."
That is not medicine. That is paperwork.
Selvara is what I wish those men had ten years sooner. A physician-led brand that reads the labs, picks up the phone, and titrates the dose. Compounded testosterone when testosterone is what the data wants. A GLP-1 when the visceral fat is the threat. Sermorelin when recovery has failed. NAD+ and Metformin when the mitochondria are dimming.
I have spent my career managing the consequence of metabolic and hormonal neglect. With Selvara I get to manage the cause.
Pranav K. Sharma, MD, FACC, FCCP, FASN, D-ABOM
Founding Physician, Selvara Health
Somerset, Kentucky
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
Four boards. One physician.
The diplomate exams below take, on average, more than a decade after medical school to complete. Dr. Sharma holds all four.
2025
American Board of Obesity Medicine
D-ABOM
The credential that governs GLP-1 prescribing for non-diabetic adults. Held by fewer than 8,000 physicians in the United States.
2023
American Board of Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care
Subspecialty for physicians who manage the sickest patients in the hospital. Mechanical ventilation, ECMO, advanced hemodynamics.
2022
American Board of Nephrology
Kidney medicine
Specialty board for kidney and metabolic physiology. Critical for safe TRT, GLP-1, Metformin, and NAD+ titration.
2020
American Board of Internal Medicine
ABIM
The foundational board for adult medicine in the United States. The credential every patient assumes a serious physician holds.
FELLOWSHIPS
Trained at the rooms that train the trainers.
2020, 2022
Nephrology Fellowship
Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine at Rutgers University, New Jersey
2017, 2020
Internal Medicine Residency
Bronx Care Health System at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
2014, 2017
DNB Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
LEADERSHIP & ACADEMIC ROLES
Where he works when he is not at Selvara.
Medical Director, Intensive Care Services
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset, Kentucky
Co-Chair, Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Committee
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital
Clinical Professor of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pikeville, Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine
Clinical Preceptor, Adjunct Faculty of Medicine
Lincoln Memorial University, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine
Teaching Faculty, Critical Care Echocardiography
National Board of Echocardiography certified instructor
RESEARCH & PEER REVIEW
A physician who writes the literature.
16peer-reviewed publications
3journals he reviews for (ASN, SCCM, AJCR)
2026SCCM Congress Research Snapshot Moderator
Int’lCME speaker, US and India
“Selvara is not a refill machine. It is a clinic that happens to ship. Every protocol that leaves our pharmacy has been read, reasoned about, and signed off by a physician who would put his own name on the chart.”
Dr. Pranav K. Sharma, MD
Selected publications appear in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Journal of Cardiac Failure, and SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine. Full list available on request.
48
U.S. states licensed
24h
Physician review window
6
Specialties on the bench
0
Bots reviewing your intake
Care that is signed by a name you can look up.
Every Selvara protocol is reviewed by Dr. Sharma or a Selvara physician trained under his standard of care. Free intake. No card. Reviewed in 24 hours.
Begin intake, freeCompounded medications are not FDA-approved. They are prepared by state-licensed pharmacies for individual patients based on a prescription from a licensed physician.