ACLS

American Board of Surgery

American Board of Surgery-005253

American Board of Surgery-066257

ATLS

ATLS-3189371

BLS

BLS-215419818773

NM

NM-MD2019-0592

NM-RS2014-0553

PALS

PALS-215421987371

SC

SC-2085482

SC-85482

SC-FO0027652

TX

TX-BP10067095

Medical Doctor - MD

English

Malayalam

Absolute Total Care (NEIC)

Absolute Total Care Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan 

Aetna (PPO)

AllWell by Absolute Total Care

Ambetter from Absolute Total Care (Marketplace) 

BCBS Blue Essentials (Marketplace)

Blue Choice Blue Option (Exchange Plan)

Blue Choice Medicaid

Blue Choice MyChoice (Available as individual commercial product)

Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice HealthCare (Group Health Plan)

Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal (FEP)

Blue Cross Blue Shield Planned Administrators

Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Blue (PPC)

Blue Cross Blue Shield State Health Plan for South Carolina

Cigna

Clover Health 

Coventry

Employers Health Network/SC Business Coalition on Health

First Choice VIP Care Plus Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan

First Choice/Select Health (NEIC)

First Health

Great West Healthcare (Part of Cigna now)

Humana ChoiceCare PPO (Group Health Plan) 

Managed Choice

Medcost

Molina Healthcare 

Molina Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan

Open Choice and Exclusive Choice)

Tricare

United HealthCare

WellCare

Dr. Deepak K. Ozhathil is a burn, trauma and critical care surgeon who is passionate about caring for adults and children whose lives have been turned upside down by traumatic events. While his name may be difficult to pronounce, his philosophy on patient care is very simple. He believes in providing the highest caliber of evidence-based medicine in a compassionate and patient-centric manor. Immediately after a trauma, Dr. Ozhathil’s top priority is preservation of life-and-limb; however, he understands that the work required does not end there. In the aftermath of a severe trauma and especially with a burn, both physical and emotional scars can have a devastating effect on a patient’s identity and ability to return to the life they knew. Therefore, Dr. Ozhathil works with a dedicated interdisciplinary team of caregivers to meet each individual patient’s psychologic and physical reconstructive needs in order to rebuild what was lost.

As a recent transplant to Charleston, Dr. Ozhathil’s journey has taken him across the country. He is proud to join MUSC, the only American College of Surgeons verified Level I Trauma Center and full-service Burn Center in the low-country region. Beginning with medical school, Dr. Ozhathil attended the University of Massachusetts in the Northeast. He went on to residency training in general surgery at the University of New Mexico in the Southwest, where he cared for a number of critically ill victims of penetrating trauma, burns and emergent surgical conditions such as soft tissue infections. Building upon this foundation, Dr. Ozhathil pursued fellowship training at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and Shriners Children’s Texas in Galveston, Texas – one of the nation’s top combined acute burn surgery and surgical critical care programs. Always curious about things unknown, Dr. Ozhathil stayed on at UTMB to perform research to better understand the microbiome of the burn wound using next generation sequencing technology. His work has been published in a number of scientific journals and he has presented at regional and national medical conferences. Dr. Ozhathil is excited to join the nationally acclaimed team at the South Carolina Burn Center and passionate about using cutting edge technology to provide world-class care to improve wound healing for pediatric and adult victims of traumatic injuries.