Kalpana Gupta MD
Professor, Infectious Diseases
1400 VFW Parkway | (857) 203-5086kalgupta@bu.edu
kalpana.gupta@va.gov
Sections
Infectious Diseases
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.
Education
MD, Stony Brook University
Epidemiology, MPH, University of Washington School of Public Health
English, BA, Stony Brook University
Publications
Gupta K. Untangling the Nuances Complicating Urinary Tract Infection Diagnosis and Management: Moving Beyond the Basics. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2024 Mar 26. PMID: 38538385.
Published on 3/4/2024O'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.
Published on 10/11/2023Valentine-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.
Published on 7/3/2023Suzuki 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.
Published on 6/21/2023Gillespie 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.
Published on 4/11/2023Linsenmeyer 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.
Published on 3/1/2023O'Brien WJ, Gupta K, Itani KMF. Estimated Risk of Adverse Surgical Outcomes Among Patients With Recent COVID-19 Infection Using Target Trial Emulation Methods. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Mar 01; 6(3):e234876. PMID: 36976565.
Published on 3/1/2023O'Brien WJ, Gupta K, Itani KMF. Estimated Risk of Adverse Surgical Outcomes Among Patients With Recent COVID-19 Infection Using Target Trial Emulation Methods. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Mar 01; 6(3):e234876. PMID: 36976565.
Published on 9/7/2022Charness ME, Gupta K, Stack G, Strymish J, Adams E, Lindy DC, Mohri H, Ho DD. Rebound of SARS-CoV-2 Infection after Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir Treatment. N Engl J Med. 2022 Sep 15; 387(11):1045-1047. PMID: 36069968.
Published on 8/31/2022Claeys KC, Trautner BW, Leekha S, Coffey KC, Crnich CJ, Diekema DJ, Fakih MG, Goetz MB, Gupta K, Jones MM, Leykum L, Liang SY, Pineles L, Pleiss A, Spivak ES, Suda KJ, Taylor JM, Rhee C, Morgan DJ. Optimal Urine Culture Diagnostic Stewardship Practice-Results from an Expert Modified-Delphi Procedure. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Aug 31; 75(3):382-389. PMID: 34849637.
Media Mentions
Published on 6/23/2020
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Published on 12/20/2018
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