News Release

January 25, 2005

Contact: Maureen McGuire, 860-679-4523
e-mail: mmcguire@nso.uchc.edu

Dr. Animita Saha Joins UConn Health Center

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Primary care physician Animita C. Saha, M.D. recently joined the University of Connecticut Health Center. She sees patients in the internal medicine practice in Farmington.

Dr. Saha comes to UConn from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York where she served as medical director of the ambulatory care network and was an attending physician in the Department of General Medicine. She also served as a clinical instructor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

Dr. Saha graduated from medical school in India and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. She is board certified in internal medicine and has special interests in women’s health and diabetes management.

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