Gayatri Gupta, DO

Dr. Gayatri Malhotra-Gupta earned her medical degree at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Manhattan, NY and completed her internal medicine residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. During residency she did research on COPD in mouse models under the direction of Dr. Patrick Geraghty (PhD, Associate Program Director of Research and Academic Development, Department of Internal Medicine). She subsequently completed her Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship training at Yale New Haven Medical Center where she worked in the lab of Dr. Charles Dela Cruz (MD, PhD, Director, Center of Pulmonary Infection Research and Treatment) studying immune responses of influenza infection in COPD.

Dr. Gupta is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease and joined SUNY Downstate Medical Center faculty in 2023 as a Critical Care attending. Her current research is focused on emphysema in HIV patients under the guidance of Dr. Robert Foronjy (Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Division Chief and Program Director).

Education

• Medical School: Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Residency: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
• Fellowship: Yale New Haven Hospital

• Losier A, Gupta G, Caldararo M, Dela Cruz CS. The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Respiratory Infections. Clin Chest Med. 2023 Jun;44(2):407-423. doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2022.11.018. Epub 2023 Feb 26. Review. PubMed PMID: 37085229; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9968485.
• Peng X, Kim J, Gupta G, Agaronyan K, Mankowski MC, Korde A, Takyar SS, Shin HJ, Habet V, Voth S, Audia JP, Chang D, Liu X, Wang L, Cai Y, Tian X, Ishibe S, Kang MJ, Compton S, Wilen CB, Dela Cruz CS, Sharma L. Coronavirus Lung Infection Impairs Host Immunity against Secondary Bacterial Infection by Promoting Lysosomal Dysfunction. J Immunol. 2022 Oct 1;209(7):1314-1322. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.2200198. Epub 2022 Sep 2. PubMed PMID: 36165196; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9523490.
• Rivas M, Gupta G, Costanzo L, Ahmed H, Wyman AE, Geraghty P. Senescence: Pathogenic Driver in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Jun 17;58(6). doi: 10.3390/medicina58060817. Review. PubMed PMID: 35744080; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9228143.
• Sharma L, Peng X, Qing H, Hilliard BK, Kim J, Swaminathan A, Tian J, Israni-Winger K, Zhang C, Habet V, Wang L, Gupta G, Tian X, Ma Y, Shin HJ, Kim SH, Kang MJ, Ishibe S, Young LH, Kotenko S, Compton S, Wilen CB, Wang A, Dela Cruz CS. Distinct Roles of Type I and Type III Interferons during a Native Murine β Coronavirus Lung Infection. J Virol. 2022 Jan 26;96(2):e0124121. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01241-21. Epub 2021 Oct 27. PubMed PMID: 34705554; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8791255.
• Gupta G, Baumlin N, Poon J, Ahmed B, Chiang YP, Railwah C, Kim MD, Rivas M, Goldenberg H, Elgamal Z, Salathe M, Panwala AA, Dabo A, Huan C, Foronjy R, Jiang XC, Wadgaonkar R, Geraghty P. Airway Resistance Caused by Sphingomyelin Synthase 2 Insufficiency in Response to Cigarette Smoke. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2020 Mar;62(3):342-353. doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2019-0133OC. PubMed PMID: 31517509; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7055695.
• Poon J, Campos M, Foronjy RF, Nath S, Gupta G, Railwah C, Dabo AJ, Baumlin N, Salathe M, Geraghty P. Cigarette smoke exposure reduces leukemia inhibitory factor levels during respiratory syncytial viral infection. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2019;14:1305-1315. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S196658. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31417248; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6592033.