Pranay Sinha, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
Dr. Sinha attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and finished residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he received a distinction in Global Health and Equity. He has been involved in TB research since 2014 and his primary interest is in the relationship between undernutrition and TB. Through epidemiological studies & health economic modeling, he hopes find ways to use nutritional policy to end TB. Dr. Sinha has field experience in India and South Africa. Clinically, he works as an Infectious Diseases physician at Boston Medical Center.
Education
- University of Virginia School of Medicine, MD
- Adelphi University, BS
Classes Taught
Publications
- Published on 4/15/2024
Richterman A, Sinha P, Ivers LC, Gross R, Rantleru T, Tamuhla N, Bisson GP. Food Insecurity and Undernutrition Are Associated With Distinct Immunologic Profiles in People With Tuberculosis and Advanced HIV Starting Antiretroviral Therapy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2024 Apr 15; 95(5):494-504. PMID: 38346410.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2024
Sinha P, Dauphinais M, Carwile ME, Horsburgh CR, Menzies NA. In-kind nutritional supplementation for household contacts of persons with tuberculosis would be cost-effective for reducing tuberculosis incidence and mortality in India: a modeling study. medRxiv. 2024 Jan 01. PMID: 38260435.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/18/2023
Carwile M, Pan SJ, Zhang V, Dauphinais M, Cintron C, Flynn D, Tang AM, Sinha P. National Institutes of Health Funding for Tuberculosis Comorbidities Is Disproportionate to Their Epidemiologic Impact. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Jan; 11(1):ofad618. PMID: 38221985.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/25/2023
McQuaid CF, Bhargava M, Sinha P, Bhargava A, Houben RMGJ. Malnutrition in older adults: a wider view. Lancet. 2023 Nov 25; 402(10416):1977. PMID: 38007259.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/16/2023
Sinha P, Guerrant RL. The Costly Vicious Cycle of Infections and Malnutrition. J Infect Dis. 2023 Nov 16. PMID: 37972258.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/5/2023
Acuña-Villaorduña C, Sinha P. Bedaquiline, Pretomanid, and Linezolid for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment in the United States: A BIG Deal. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 05; 77(7):1063-1064. PMID: 37249072.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/8/2023
Sinha P, Mehta S. Food: the tuberculosis vaccine we already have. Lancet. 2023 Aug 19; 402(10402):588-590. PMID: 37567199.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/14/2023
Barathi A, Krishnamoorthy Y, Sinha P, Horsburgh C, Hochberg N, Johnson E, Salgame P, Govindarajan S, Senbagavalli PB, Lakshinarayanan S, Roy G, Ellner J, Sarkar S. Effect of treatment adherence on the association between sex and unfavourable treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Puducherry, India: a mediation analysis. J Public Health (Oxf). 2023 Jun 14; 45(2):304-311. PMID: 35692180.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/17/2023
Sinha P, Ponnuraja C, Gupte N, Prakash Babu S, Cox SR, Sarkar S, Mave V, Paradkar M, Cintron C, Govindarajan S, Kinikar A, Priya N, Gaikwad S, Thangakunam B, Devarajan A, Dhanasekaran M, Tornheim JA, Gupta A, Salgame P, Christopher DJ, Kornfeld H, Viswanathan V, Ellner JJ, Horsburgh CR, Gupte AN, Padmapriyadarsini C, Hochberg NS. Impact of Undernutrition on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in India: A Multicenter, Prospective, Cohort Analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Apr 17; 76(8):1483-1491. PMID: 36424864.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/3/2023
Sinha P, Jacobson KR, Horsburgh CR, Acuña-Villaorduña C. At Long Last: Short, All-Oral Regimens for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the United States. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Apr; 10(4):ofad177. PMID: 37125228.
Read at: PubMed
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