Kalpana Gupta, MD
Professor, 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.
Other Positions
- VA Boston Healthcare System
Websites
Education
- Stony Brook University, MD
- University of Washington School of Public Health, MPH
- Stony Brook University, BA
Publications
- Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/27/2024
Gupta K. Untangling the Nuances Complicating Urinary Tract Infection Diagnosis and Management: Moving Beyond the Basics. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2024 Jun; 38(2):xi-xii. PMID: 38538385.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/4/2024
O'Brien WJ, Schweizer ML, Strymish J, Beck BF, Au V, Chan JA, Brown M, Itani KMF, Dukes KC, Walhof JF, Gupta K. Propensity Score-Weighted Analysis of Postoperative Infection in Patients With and Without Preoperative Urine Culture. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Mar 04; 7(3):e240900. PMID: 38436958.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/11/2023
Valentine-King MA, Trautner BW, Zoorob RJ, Salemi JL, Gupta K, Grigoryan L. Predicting Antibiotic Susceptibility Among Patients With Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection Using a Prior Culture. J Urol. 2024 Jan; 211(1):144-152. PMID: 37820311.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/3/2023
Suzuki H, Perencevich EN, Hockett Sherlock S, Clore GS, O'Shea AMJ, Forrest GN, Pfeiffer CD, Safdar N, Crnich C, Gupta K, Strymish J, Lira GB, Bradley S, Cadena-Zuluaga J, Rubin M, Bittner M, Morgan D, DeVries A, Miell K, Alexander B, Schweizer ML. Implementation of a Prevention Bundle to Decrease Rates of Staphylococcus aureus Surgical Site Infection at 11 Veterans Affairs Hospitals. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jul 03; 6(7):e2324516. PMID: 37471087.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/21/2023
Gillespie C, Sitter K, McConeghy KW, Strymish J, Gupta K, Hartmann CW, Borzecki AM. Facilitators and Barriers to Verifying Penicillin Allergies in a Veteran Nursing Home Population. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2023 Sep; 11(9):2848-2854.e3. PMID: 37352930.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/11/2023
Linsenmeyer K, Mohr D, Gupta K, Doshi S, Gifford AL, Charness ME. Sickness presenteeism in healthcare workers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: An observational cohort study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Oct; 44(10):1693-1696. PMID: 37039605.
Read at: PubMed
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