Sheiphali Gandhi, MD

Postdoctoral Scholar and Clinical Fellow
Medicine

Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, is a pulmonologist specializing in occupational and environmental respiratory disease. She graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2012. She went to the University of Minnesota for her internal medicine residency and global health chief residency during which she received her Certificate in Tropical Medicine through the Center of Disease Control and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She completed her fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at Northwestern University and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. During this time, she specialized in occupational pulmonology namely pneumoconioses with projects in coal mine and silica dust respiratory disease surveillance. 

As a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, Dr. Gandhi plans to investigate the environmental and occupational risk factors for mesothelioma in the collaboration through a case-control study in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the California Cancer Registry. Additionally, she will conduct a feasibility study of the creation of a rapid case ascertainment and patient contact study utilizing natural language processing techniques using electronic pathology records. 

Publications: 

Scoping review of exposure questionnaires and surveys in interstitial lung disease.

BMJ open respiratory research

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

Gandhi SA, Min B, Fazio JC, Johannson KA, Steinmaus C, Reynolds CJ, Cummings KJ

Environmental Causes of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

International journal of molecular sciences

Gandhi S, Tonelli R, Murray M, Samarelli AV, Spagnolo P

Silicosis Among Immigrant Engineered Stone (Quartz) Countertop Fabrication Workers in California.

JAMA internal medicine

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

Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Alam A, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ

Occupational Contributions to Respiratory Health Disparities.

Clinics in chest medicine

Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Cummings KJ

A 35-Year-Old Man with Chronic Cough and Worsening Dyspnea.

NEJM evidence

Afif N, Fazio J, Gandhi S, Kamangar N, Monteiro AC

Rare case of occupational pulmonary hemorrhage in a firefighter.

Respiratory medicine case reports

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

Lavoie KL, Dodd KE, Mazurek LM, Harber P, Gandhi S, Blanc PD, Torén K, Malo L-L

Letter from California, USA.

Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)

Gandhi SA

The role of the University of Minnesota Global Health Chief Resident in Minnesota and Tanzania

Annals of Global Health

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

Ashish Singal, Sheiphali Gandhi, Marc Pritzker, Thenappan Thenappan

Deep T-Wave Inversions: Cardiac Ischemia or Memory?

Journal of Cardiovascular Disease

Vakil K, Gandhi SA, Abidi K, Tholakanahalli V, Sharma A, Zakharova M, Madlon-Kay R.