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Mercyhealth has announced the hiring of Vasanth Kattalai Kailasam to the physician staff of Mercyhealth Hospital and Physician Clinic in Crystal Lake.
After earning his medical degree at Tirunelveli Medical College in India, Kattalai Kailasam served a residency at Columbia University’s Harlem Hospital Center in New York. He then completed an addiction psychiatry fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a pain medicine fellowship at University of Washington at Seattle.
He is board certified in general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry and pain medicine. He also has a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston.
Kattalai Kailasam’s special interests include:
- Joint pain
- Lower back pain
- Sciatica
- Neck pain
- Chronic abdominal pain
- Groin and pelvic pain
- Post-thoracotomy pain
- Herpes zoster pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
To make an appointment with Dr. Kattalai Kailasam, call Mercyhealth Hospital and Physician Clinic-Crystal Lake at 815-356-7494.