Pranay Sinha MD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 638-7578psinha@bu.edu

Sections
Infectious Diseases
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
MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2014
Biology, BS, Adelphi University, 2009
Publications
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.
Published on 4/3/2023Sinha 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.
Published on 3/22/2023McLaughlin A, Burns R, Ryan M, Abbasi W, Harvey L, Hicks J, Sinha P, Assoumou SA. Comparing COVID-19-related Morbidity and Mortality Between Patients With and Without Substance Use Disorders: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Subst Abuse. 2023; 17:11782218231160014. PMID: 36968974.
Published on 3/22/2023McLaughlin A, Burns R, Ryan M, Abbasi W, Harvey L, Hicks J, Sinha P, Assoumou SA. Comparing COVID-19-related Morbidity and Mortality Between Patients With and Without Substance Use Disorders: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Subst Abuse. 2023; 17:11782218231160014. PMID: 36968974.
Published on 3/1/2023McQuaid CF, Sinha P, Bhargava M, Weerasuriya C, Houben RMGJ, Bhargava A. Tuberculosis and nutrition: what gets measured gets managed. Lancet Respir Med. 2023 Apr; 11(4):308-310. PMID: 36870352.
Published on 10/20/2022VanValkenburg A, Kaipilyawar V, Sarkar S, Lakshminarayanan S, Cintron C, Babu SP, Knudsen S, Joseph NM, Horsburgh CR, Sinha P, Ellner JJ, Narasimhan PB, Johnson WE, Hochberg NS, Salgame P. Corrigendum: Malnutrition leads to increased inflammation and expression of tuberculosis risk signatures in recently exposed household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1064883. PMID: 36341454.
Published on 9/28/2022VanValkenburg A, Kaipilyawar V, Sarkar S, Lakshminarayanan S, Cintron C, Prakash Babu S, Knudsen S, Joseph NM, Horsburgh CR, Sinha P, Ellner JJ, Narasimhan PB, Johnson WE, Hochberg NS, Salgame P. Malnutrition leads to increased inflammation and expression of tuberculosis risk signatures in recently exposed household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:1011166. PMID: 36248906.
Published on 9/10/2022Sinha P, Lakshminarayanan SL, Cintron C, Narasimhan PB, Locks LM, Kulatilaka N, Maloomian K, Prakash Babu S, Carwile ME, Liu AF, Horsburgh CR, Acuna-Villaorduna C, Linas BP, Hochberg NS. Nutritional Supplementation Would Be Cost-Effective for Reducing Tuberculosis Incidence and Mortality in India: The Ration Optimization to Impede Tuberculosis (ROTI-TB) Model. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 10; 75(4):577-585. PMID: 34910141.
Published on 8/15/2022Walter C, Acuña-Villaorduna C, Hochberg NS, Sinha P. Case Report: Tuberculosis Autoregression after Minimal Treatment and Review of the Literature. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2022 Aug 15; 107(3):595-9. PMID: 35970288.
Published on 6/11/2022Barathi 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). 2022 Jun 11. PMID: 35692180.
Media Mentions
Published on 11/30/2022
Undernutrition before TB, after treatment initiation associated with adverse outcomes
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