Zheni Avram, MD

About

Dr. Avram was born in Albania and she received a Governmental scholarship to study medicine in Romania where she completed Medical School at Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie ‘luliu Hatieganu” Cluj-Napoca Romania in 2000 and her postgraduate residency in diabetes and nutrition in 2005. It was in Romania where she also met her husband, Adrian, who currently practices dentistry in Richmond’s West End.

After moving to the United States, Dr. Avram completed her Internal Medicine residency at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Shadyside in Pennsylvania in 2008 and then continued on to complete her Geriatric Fellowship at the University of South Florida-Tampa in 2009.  Along with her family, Dr. Avram moved from Florida to Virginia, where she initially practiced medicine in Dinwiddie.  Dr. Avram wanted to practice closer to home in Richmond and decided to join the Reynolds Primary Care Division of Virginia Physicians Inc. in July of 2015.

Dr. Avram is an active member of the American College of Physicians and American Geriatric Society.  Her professional areas of interests include endocrine, diabetes, hypertension and geriatric population care.

Outside of the office Dr. Avram’s hobbies include reading, traveling, skiing and spending time with her young sons and husband.