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 3/19/2025

    Walhof JEF, Schweizer ML, Gupta K, Brown M, Suh D, Strymish J, O'Brien WJ, Chan J, Miell K, Au V, Trautner BW, Dukes KC. Response to Mr. Babar's Letter to the Editor regarding "Healthcare worker attitudes on routine non-urological preoperative urine cultures: a qualitative assessment". Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 19; 1. PMID: 40105776.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 9/19/2024

    Friberg Walhof JE, Schweizer ML, Gupta K, Brown M, Suh D, Strymish J, O'Brien WJ, Chan J, Miell K, Au V, Trautner BW, Dukes KC. Healthcare worker attitudes on routine non-urological preoperative urine cultures: a qualitative assessment. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Sep 19; 45(10):1-6. PMID: 39297374.

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  • Published 4/11/2024

    Smith M, Crnich C, Donskey C, Evans CT, Evans M, Goto M, Guerrero B, Gupta K, Harris A, Hicks N, Khader K, Kralovic S, McKinley L, Rubin M, Safdar N, Schweizer ML, Tovar S, Wilson G, Zabarsky T, Perencevich EN. Research agenda for transmission prevention within the Veterans Health Administration, 2024-2028. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 11; 1-10. PMID: 38600795.

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  • Published 4/10/2024

    Lazarus JE, Gupta K. Recurrent UTI in Women-Risk Factors and Management. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2024 Jun; 38(2):325-341. PMID: 38599896.

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  • Published 4/5/2024

    Charness ME, Gupta K, Linsenmeyer K, Strymish J, Madjarov R, Stack G. Evidence from whole genome sequencing of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 almost 5 hours after hospital room turnover. Am J Infect Control. 2024 Jul; 52(7):849-851. PMID: 38583778.

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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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