Niriksha Malladi, MD, has been recognized as a 2025 Castle Connolly Top Doctor – she has received the prestigious Top Doctor honor since 2024.

Dr. Niriksha Malladi is a Board-Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialist. She specializes in musculoskeletal medicine, rehabilitation for work injuries, chronic pain, spine and joint rehabilitation, complex regional pain syndrome, and multidisciplinary management of pain. Castle Connolly's Top Doctors represent the top 7% of all U.S. practicing physicians. These doctors are best-in-class healthcare providers, embodying excellence in clinical care as well as interpersonal skills.

She has previously served as the Medical Director of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation practice recognized as a Center of Excellence in chronic pain management, the Physician Advisory Panel for the Center of Occupational Health and Education Alliance of Western Washington, and been a physician mentor to medical students as Clinical Faculty for Pacific Northwest University Medical School. She also provides medicolegal expertise in work injury cases in the state of WA.

Areas of expertise: physiatry (rehab medicine) consultations, CRPS consultations, permanent partial disability impairment rating exams, traumatic brain injury/concussion consultations.