Dr. Naidu was appointed Acting Chief of Staff at VA Illiana Health Care System in June 2021. He has more than 10 years of VA experience having served Veterans in Primary Care, ER, and Urgent Care settings. 

He was previously Associate Chief of Staff in Acute and Specialty Medicine at the Fort Wayne, IN, VA System. He is concurrently the Chief of Specialty Service, Designated Education Officer, and Chief Health Information Officer at VA Illiana. He has been involved in the national VA Emergency Medicine/Geriatric ED organizational and clinical workgroups.  He serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at Carle-Univ. of Illinois College of Medicine.  

Dr. Naidu earned his medical degree at University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. He engaged in a graduate program in Neuroscience/Biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also having obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Bioengineering from there as well. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine.