Kalpana Gupta, MD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Gupta is Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases at the Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, and Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Her primary research focus over the past decade has been on optimizing treatment regimens and prevention strategies for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women. She is Chair of the IDSA UTI guideline update committee. She is currently PI of a multi-site NIH-funded randomized controlled trial of cranberry juice cocktail to prevent recurrent UTI in women and just completed a randomized trial of short course nitrofurantoin for treatment of acute cystitis in women. As a natural progression of her work on antimicrobial resistance in community-acquired UTIs, she is now embarking on a new research area, namely the evaluation of the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of MRSA infections in the veteran population.

Publications

  • Published 8/11/2025

    Dukes KC, Gupta K, Walhof JF, Brown ME, Strymish J, Suh D, O'Brien WJ, Chan J, Beck B, Au V, Reisinger HS, Schweizer ML. Acceptability of proposed stewardship interventions to reduce preoperative screening and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria. Am J Infect Control. 2025 Aug 11. PMID: 40803553.

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  • Published 7/26/2025

    Claeys KC, Brown CH, Pineles L, Evans CT, Cao L, Trautner BW, Crnich CJ, Balasubramanian P, Ewers T, Gupta K, Strymish JM, Cadena J, O'Neil S, Krein SL, Coffey KC, Morgan DJ. Implementation of Diagnostic Stewardship to Improve Urinary Tract Infection Antibiotic Use Across Three Medical Centers. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Jul 26. PMID: 40720743.

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  • Published 7/5/2025

    Bigelow TA, Petersen AC, Chikhwaza DA, Wu H, Yu H, Gupta K, Itani KMF. Impact of low-amplitude pulse interspersed with histotripsy treatment of Staphylococcus aureus biofilms on surgical mesh. Ultrasonics. 2025 Dec; 156:107730. PMID: 40633167.

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  • Published 7/3/2025

    Gupta K, Wagenlehner F, Wilcox M, Advani SD, Bilsen M, Bonkat G, Cantón R, Geerlings S, Grabein B, Horcajada JP, Kushner P, Narayanan N, Scheetz M. Urinary tract infection in adults: gaps in current guidelines - opinions from an international multidisciplinary panel and relevance to clinical practice. BMC Proc. 2025 Jul 03; 19(Suppl 16):18. PMID: 40604992.

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  • Published 6/26/2025

    Lodise TP, Das AF, Frimodt-Møller N, Gupta K, Rodvold KA, Santerre Henriksen A, Sommer MOA, Wagenlehner F, Kaye KS. Pivmecillinam for Treatment of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection: New Efficacy Analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Jun 26. PMID: 40567143.

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Education

  • Stony Brook University, MD
  • University of Washington School of Public Health, MPH
  • Stony Brook University, BA

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