About AIRI
The Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation Institute (AIRI) is a physician-led program based in Stockton, California, providing coordinated care for patients with intestinal failure, short bowel syndrome, and complex nutrition needs.
AIRI was created to bridge the gap between hospital care and life at home, bringing together medical care, nutrition support, monitoring, education, and care coordination closer to the communities patients call home.
Why AIRI exists
Founded by Rajesh Kunadharaju, MD, FACP, FCCP
Dr. Kunadharaju founded AIRI after years of caring for medically complex patients across hospital, critical-care, rehabilitation, and post-acute settings.
Through this work, he saw patients with intestinal failure, short bowel syndrome, complex nutrition needs, and dependence on parenteral nutrition face fragmented care — particularly during the transition from hospital to home.
He created AIRI to provide a more coordinated, patient-centered pathway connecting medical care, nutrition support, monitoring, education, clinicians, and caregivers.
Dr. Kunadharaju is AIRI's Founder and Medical Director and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.
Mission and vision
Our mission
To provide accessible, high-quality intestinal rehabilitation for children and adults in our communities by bringing expert care, education, and home-based support as close to the patient as possible.
AIRI partners with families, community clinicians, and home-health providers to safely manage parenteral and enteral nutrition, prevent avoidable hospitalizations, and help patients live full lives at home, work, and school.
Our vision
A community where every person living with intestinal failure or complex intestinal disease, regardless of geography, background, or resources, can receive timely, coordinated, and compassionate care without leaving their home region.
AIRI strives to be the trusted hub for intestinal rehabilitation in the region, connecting hospitals, clinics, home-infusion services, and social resources so that patients and families experience seamless care, fewer disruptions, and better long-term outcomes.
Our goal is not simply to manage parenteral nutrition. We work to help each patient achieve the best possible level of nutritional stability, hydration, functional recovery, independence, and quality of life.
Our approach to care
Individualized care
Every patient's intestinal anatomy, diagnosis, nutrition needs, treatment goals, home environment, and support system are different. Care plans reflect those individual needs.
Coordinated transitions
Going home on parenteral nutrition should not mean going home without support. AIRI coordinates with inpatient teams, home-infusion providers, home-health clinicians, patients, caregivers, and outpatient specialists.
Education and empowerment
Patients and caregivers need practical, understandable information about nutrition support, central-line safety, hydration, monitoring, warning signs, and when to contact their care team.
Collaboration
AIRI works alongside each patient's gastroenterologist, surgeon, primary care clinician, hospital team, and other specialists.
Connecting hospital care with life at home
Complex intestinal and nutrition care often extends across multiple settings. AIRI helps connect the people involved in that care so patients and families have greater continuity as they transition from the hospital to ongoing care at home.
We coordinate with referring clinicians, hospitals, gastroenterologists, surgeons, dietitians, home-infusion pharmacies, home-health teams, and other specialists while supporting nutrition management, monitoring, education, and intestinal rehabilitation.
Learn more about care at AIRI
Explore AIRI's programs for intestinal failure, short bowel syndrome, intestinal rehabilitation, and complex nutrition support, or contact our team about referring a patient.