Archana Asundi MD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
650 Albany St | (617) 414-5260

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Infectious Diseases
Biography
Dr. Archana Asundi is a physician-scientist and infectious disease clinician, who specializes in care of people living with HIV with a specific focus on HIV and Aging. In her role Director of the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit (ID-CRU) at Boston Medical Center, she supports and oversees the conduct of a large portfolio of clinical trials and clinical-translational research studies in the Center for Infectious Disease (CID). Her individual research program focuses on investigating cardiometabolic comorbidities and weight gain/obesity among people living with HIV. She also engages in quality improvement and continuing medical education in the area of HIV and aging with several projects ongoing targeted around improvement of health-related quality of life among people aging with HIV.
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Education
MD, McGill University
Psychology, BA, Tufts University
Publications
Lilie T, Bouzy J, Asundi A, Taylor J, Roche S, Olson A, Coxen K, Corry H, Jordan H, Clayton K, Lin N, Tsibris A. HIV-1 latency reversal agent boosting is not limited by opioid use. JCI Insight. 2024 Nov 22; 9(22). PMID: 39470739.
Published on 5/15/2024Pihl RMF, Smith-Mahoney EL, Olson A, Yuen RR, Asundi A, Lin N, Belkina AC, Snyder-Cappione JE. Vd1 Effector and Vd2 ?d T-Cell Subsets Shift in Frequency and Are Linked to Plasma Inflammatory Markers During Antiretroviral Therapy-Suppressed HIV Infection. J Infect Dis. 2024 May 15; 229(5):1317-1327. PMID: 38390982.
Published on 6/3/2023Lilie T, Bouzy J, Asundi A, Taylor J, Roche S, Olson A, Coxen K, Corry H, Jordan H, Clayton K, Lin N, Tsibris A. Opioid use does not limit potent low-dose HIV-1 latency reversal agent boosting. medRxiv. 2023 Jun 03. PMID: 37398278.
Published on 1/10/2022Asundi A, Olson A, Jiang W, Varshney SP, White LF, Sagar M, Lin NH. Integrase Inhibitor Use Associated with Weight Gain in Women and Incident Diabetes Mellitus. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2022 03; 38(3):208-215. PMID: 34877881.
Published on 7/14/2021Asundi A, O'Leary C, Bhadelia N. Global COVID-19 vaccine inequity: The scope, the impact, and the challenges. Cell Host Microbe. 2021 07 14; 29(7):1036-1039. PMID: 34265241.
Published on 4/7/2021Asundi A, Resnik J, Benedict PA, Shin M, Rani Elwy A, Branch-Elliman W. How Are Emerging Data Translated Into Clinical Practice? A Mixed Methods Investigation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Institutional Treatment Protocols. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Apr; 8(4):ofab072. PMID: 33855102.
Published on 3/24/2020Asundi A, Stanislawski M, Mehta P, Mull HJ, Schweizer ML, BarĂ³n AE, Ho PM, Gupta K, Branch-Elliman W. Development and Validation of a Semi-Automated Surveillance Algorithm for Cardiac Device Infections: Insights from the VA CART program. Sci Rep. 2020 03 24; 10(1):5276. PMID: 32210289.
Published on 1/30/2020Mull HJ, Stolzmann K, Kalver E, Shin MH, Schweizer ML, Asundi A, Mehta P, Stanislawski M, Branch-Elliman W. Novel methodology to measure pre-procedure antimicrobial prophylaxis: integrating text searches with structured data from the Veterans Health Administration's electronic medical record. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2020 01 30; 20(1):15. PMID: 32000780.
Published on 1/1/2020Asundi A, Bhadelia N. Making Emergency Use of Experimental Vaccines Safer. AMA J Ethics. 2020 01 01; 22(1):E43-49. PMID: 31958390.
Published on 9/18/2019Asundi A, Cervantes-Arslanian AM, Lin NH, Barbosa F. Infectious Myelitis. Semin Neurol. 2019 08; 39(4):472-481. PMID: 31533188.
Media Mentions
Published on 1/15/2025
HIV pioneers are aging faster than normal, prompting new approaches to care
Published on 10/27/2020
Flurry of New Research Explores Weight Gain on Integrase Inhibitors Among People Living With HIV
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