"Dr. Rita Goyal is passionate about doing what she’s trained to do: delivering accessible quality healthcare. She is a 1998 graduate of the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UASOM), Birmingham, where she served as Class Officer and American Medical Student Association officer. Upon graduation, she continued her medical clinical training at St Vincent’s East Hospital where she completed her Family Practice Internship and Residency followed by an additional year training in private practice dermatology. Dr. Goyal has over twenty years of experience as a board-certified medical physician practicing outpatient and inpatient medicine and has served several lead roles. She is a multi-award winner including the Birmingham Metro’s Best Docs Award for 2015 and 2016, while serving as an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at UAB Hospital, and the B-Metro’s Best Women Doctors award for 2017 and 2018. As someone who loves giving back to her community, her philanthropic work started in Birmingham in her early years out of graduate school and since that time she has continued to be an active member of her community. She is the chairman of YouthServe’s Board of Directors and is an active board member of several institutions both at a local level and a state level. Her enthusiasm and passion for health education inspired her join the American Heart Association (AHA) in the awareness campaign for Women’s heart disease and stroke in 2014 to 2018. She is a Circle of Red Member and Cor Vitae member of the AHA."
