Dr Golla graduated in 2000 from Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, a recognized, premier Medical School in India. She completed requirements for ECFMG certification in 2002. She then underwent Residency training in Pediatrics at University at Buffalo (completed in 2005) followed by Residency training in Child Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center (completed in 2008).
As a Child Neurology Resident, she won Teva Neuroscience award for her academic performance in 2007 as well as 2008. She also won the Leon Weisberg award for her research work looking at the incidence of dystrophinopathies in girls with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. The resulting manuscript was selected as the best paper during Annual Neurology Resident research presentations at UT Southwestern in 2008. She was also selected and served as a Chief Resident of Child Neurology in 2008. She has Board Certification in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology issued by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
She furthered her research training when she joined the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2009, as an Instructor, to work in Dr Juan Pascual’s laboratory in the field of rare mitochondrial disorders. She was supported by Hegi Research Scholarship award during this period. She then underwent further post-graduate clinical training to complete a residency in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in June 2010, at UT Southwestern Medical Center, to become one of very few Neurodevelopmental Disabilities specialists in the country. She has published in peer reviewed journals and has written book chapters, and is currently involved in research studies in the field autism and Neurodevelopmental disabilties.
