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photo Shikha Gupta, MD

Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Email: guptas12@upmc.edu

Phone: 412-692-2210
Contact
Office: UPMC Montefiore Hospital, NW628
3459 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-692-2210
Fax: 412-692-2260
E-mail: guptas12@upmc.edu
Administrative Assistant:
Gabrielle Amity
Email: amitygc@upmc.edu
Phone: 412-648-6494
Fax: 412-648-6495
Education and Training
Education
MD, Government Medical College, Chandigarh, India, 2007
Training
Intern, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, 2009
Resident, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, 2011
Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2013
Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 2014
Research Interest
Dr. Gupta’s research interest is in clinical trials in COPD and electronic cigarettes research.
Clinical Interest
Dr. Gupta maintains a pulmonary and critical care practice, based at the UPMC Presbyterian and Mercy. Her clinic at the Comprehensive Lung Center focuses on general pulmonary medicine, with special interest in COPD and electronic cigarettes. She evaluates patients for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction surgery. She is ABIM board certified in pulmonary and critical care.
Publications
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Selected Publications:
Gupta S, Gupta A, Rehman S, Ocak I, Domsic R, Schneider F, George MP. Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease is highly prevalent in scleroderma patients undergoing lung transplantation. ERJ Open Res. 2019; Feb; 5(1): 00168-2018.
Khalid F, Rehman S, Gupta S. Eighty-five-year-old man with mosaic attenuation on chest imaging. BMJ Case Rep. 2018; Jan 13: bcr2017222644.
Khalid F, Rehman S, AbdulRehman R, Gupta S. Fatal air embolism following local anaesthetisation: does needle size matter?. BMJ Case Rep. 2018; Feb 5: bcr2017222254.
Carlos WG, Patel DG, Vannostrand KM, Gupta S, Cucci AR, Bosslet GT. Intensive care unit rounding checklist implementation. Effect of accountability measures on physician compliance. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2015; Apr;12(4): 533-8.
Chae Yk, Khemasuwan D, Dimou A, Neagu S, Chebrolu L, Gupta S, Carpio A, Kim J, Yun JH, Smyrlis A, Friedman A, Tester W. Inhibition of renin angiotensin axis may be associated with reduced risk of developing venous thromboembolism in patients with atherosclerotic disease. PLoS One. 2014; Jan 31;9(1): e87813.
Gupta, S, Ionescu, RC, Lahm, T, Sigua, NL. A young man with fever, pleuritic chest pain, and a lung mass. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2014; Oct;11(8): 1316-8.
Gupta, S, Smith, P, Twigg, Iii H, Hage, CA. Bronchoalveolar lavage cellular patterns in monoclonal antibody-induced lung disease. Respiration. 2014; 88(3): 185-9.
Gupta, S, Van Nostrand, K, Rissing, S, Carlos, WG, Noor, A. “Hole-hearted” hemoptysis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013; Oct 1;188(7): 872.
Gupta, S, Chandra, D, Sciurba, F. Minimal or maximal clinically important difference: using death to define MCID. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013; June;187(12): 1391-2.
Khemasuwan, D, Chae, YK, Gupta, S, Carpio, A, Yun, JH, Neagu, S, Lucca, AB, Valsecchi, ME, Mora, JI. Dose-related effect of statins in venous thrombosis risk reduction. Amer J Med. 2011; Sep;124(9): 852-9.
Notable Achievements
UPMC Mckeesport Above and beyond, 2015

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