Sheiphali Gandhi, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Divisions of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy Medicine. She is a dual-boarded pulmonologist and occupational/environmental medicine physician, specializing in occupational and environmental respiratory disease.
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She is the Associate Director of the San Francisco Veteran's Association Post-Deployment Cardiopulmonary Evaluation Network, assessing veterans with military exposures in Southwest Asia. Her research concentrates on the epidemiology of interstitial lung disease including pneumoconiosis and the occupational/environmental contributions to health disparities in interstitial lung disease.
Awards
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- Irene Perstein Award, UCSF School of Medicine, 2024-2027
- CTSI KL2 Award, UCSF, 2024-2026
- Hellman Fellows Program, University of California, 2024-2026
- Travel Award, Western Association of Physicians and Western Society of Clinical Investigation, 2023
- NIH National Research Service Award (F32), NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), 2021-2023
- Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education Postdoctoral Fellow (T32), UCSF, 2021
- Targeted Research Training grant T42, NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health), 2020-2021
- Environmental, Occupational, and Population Health Abstract Scholarship, American Thoracic Society, 2019
- Best Medical Intensive Care Unit Fellow Teacher, Northwestern University, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 2019
- Arthur R. Metz Endowed Fellowship Recipient in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 2018-2019
- Environmental, Occupational and Population Health Abstract Scholarship, American Thoracic Society, 2018
- Annual Scientific Meeting Kean Travel Grant, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2015
- Baccalaureate/Medical Degree Scholarship Recipient, University of Southern Indiana/Indiana University School of Medicine, 2004-2012
Education & Training
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- Residency (Fellowship) Occupational and Environmental Medicine University of California San Francisco 2021
- MPH Master's Public Health University of California Berkeley School of Public Health 2020
- Clinical Fellowship Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 2019
- Residency and Chief Residency Internal Medicine University of Minnesota School of Medicine 2015
- MD Indiana University School of Medicine 2012
Grants and Projects
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- , University of California Hellman Fellowship, 2024-2026
- Understanding Pulmonary Fibrosis Through Complex Occupational Exposure Assessments, California Labor Lab Pilot Grants Program, 2023-2025
- The MesoCase Study: Mesothelioma Case-Control and Rapid Case Ascertainment Study, NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), 2021-2023
Publications (16)
Top publication keywords:
Coal MiningVasculitis, Central Nervous SystemIdiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisSilicosisPulmonary Gas ExchangeWildfiresAnti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated VasculitisAnthracosisOccupational ExposureSilicon DioxideRadiographyRespiration DisordersDustPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveOccupational Diseases
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Silicosis Among Immigrant Engineered Stone (Quartz) Countertop Fabrication Workers in California.
JAMA internal medicine 2023 Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Flattery J, Heinzerling A, Kamangar N, Afif N, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ -
Active Surveillance of Engineered Stone Workers Facilitates Early Identification of Silicosis: A Discussion of Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases.
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS 2023 Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Alam A, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ -
Occupational Contributions to Respiratory Health Disparities.
Clinics in chest medicine 2023 Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Cummings KJ -
Scoping review of exposure questionnaires and surveys in interstitial lung disease.
BMJ open respiratory research 2024 Barnes H, Elmrayed S, Barber CM, Feary J, Lee CT, Gandhi S, Peters CE, Salisbury ML, Johannson KA -
The Impact of Occupational Exposures on the Risk of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024 Gandhi SA, Min B, Fazio JC, Johannson KA, Steinmaus C, Reynolds CJ, Cummings KJ
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Workers at Risk of Silicosis-Ongoing Overexposure and Lack of Medical Surveillance-Reply.
JAMA internal medicine 2024 Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Harrison RJ -
Environmental Causes of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
International journal of molecular sciences 2023 Gandhi S, Tonelli R, Murray M, Samarelli AV, Spagnolo P -
A 35-Year-Old Man with Chronic Cough and Worsening Dyspnea.
NEJM evidence 2023 Afif N, Fazio J, Gandhi S, Kamangar N, Monteiro AC -
Rare case of occupational pulmonary hemorrhage in a firefighter.
Respiratory medicine case reports 2022 Gandhi SA, Welch TJ, Jones KD, Cummings KJ, Styles L, Blanc PD, Harrison RJ -
Impairment and disability evaluations: I. Psychosocial, economic, and medicolegal aspects
Asthma in the Workplace 2021 Lavoie KL, Dodd KE, Mazurek LM, Harber P, Gandhi S, Blanc PD, Torén K, Malo L-L -
Early radiographic pneumoconiosis is associated with impaired exercise gas exchange among coal miners with normal resting spirometry.
American journal of industrial medicine 2021 Gandhi SA, Cohen RA, Blanc PD, Go LHT -
Letter from California, USA.
Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) 2020 Gandhi SA -
The role of the University of Minnesota Global Health Chief Resident in Minnesota and Tanzania
Annals of Global Health 2016 4. Pogemiller, H., Gandhi, S., Fabrizius, R., Rothenberger, M., Walker, P., Rhodes, M -
Methodologies for Pulmonary Artery Pressure Waveform and Wave Reflection Analysis in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Journal of Medical Devices 2015 Singal A, Gandhi SA, Pritzker M, Thenappan T. -
Intracranial hemorrhage due to ANCA-associated isolated cerebral vasculitis.
Minnesota medicine 2015 Gandhi S, Fazeli P -
Deep T-Wave Inversions: Cardiac Ischemia or Memory?
Journal of Cardiovascular Disease 2014 Vakil K, Gandhi SA, Abidi K, Tholakanahalli V, Sharma A, Zakharova M, Madlon-Kay R.