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Kalpana Gupta, MD MPH

Professor
VA Boston HCS and Boston University School of Medicine
West Roxbury, MA, United States

Dr. Gupta is the Associate Chief of Staff and Chief of Infectious Diseases at VA Boston Healthcare System. She is a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Gupta is a clinical investigator with expertise in large database studies and multi-site clinical trials on prevention and treatment of bacterial infections. Her research topics include UTI, surgical site infections, MRSA, and multi-drug resistance epidemiology. She serves as Chair of the current IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines on Treatment of UTI in Women and is a co-author on the recently published IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines on Asymptomatic Bacteriuria.

Dr. Gupta led a national VA study demonstrating the ineffectiveness of treating asymptomatic bacteriuria and pyuria prior to implant and cardiac surgeries. She now is leading a VA Health Services Research and Development funded study to develop and implement a toolkit to reduce unnecessary testing and treatment of urine cultures prior to surgery.

Disclosure(s): GSK: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Iterum Therapeutics Limited: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Qiagen, Inc.: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); UpToDate Wolters Kluwer Health: Royalties (Ongoing)

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