Education:

Dr. Reddy earned her medical degree from Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, India. She completed a master's degree in clinical epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health prior to starting her Internal Medicine Residency training at Boston University Medical Center. Her post-graduate training also included a Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine from Boston University Medical Center with a particular focus on pulmonary infections and associated lung destruction.  

Research Interests:

Dr. Reddy has been involved in several patient-oriented research projects in pulmonary infections. As an investigator in the Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT) cohort in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India her work focused on the impact of smoking and biomass fuel use on TB Disease and its treatment outcomes. She is currently developing a database of patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections seen at Montefiore Medical Center in collaboration with the Division of Infectious Diseases. The goal of this project is to better characterize the natural history and clinical outcomes of these infections.  She is also involved in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) as the Bronx site pulmonologist and co-investigator to assess the impact of HIV on the development of chronic lung diseases.

Clinical Interests:

1. Bronchiectasis    

2. Tuberculosis

3. Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infections                                                                                    

4. Obstructive lung diseases                                                                                                                          

5. COVID-19

Board Certification:

Dr. Reddy is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Original Publications:

1.    Reddy D, Little F; Glucocorticoid-Resistant Asthma: More than meets the eye; J Asthma December 2013, Vol. 50, No. 10, Pages 1036-1044, PMID 23923995

2.    Reddy D, O’Donnell MR, Welter-Frost AM, Coe A, Horsburgh CR. Discordance between Tuberculin Skin Test and Interferon Gamma Release Assay is Associated with Previous Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment. Mycobact Dis 2016, 6:227. doi: 10.4172/2161-1068.1000227.

3.     Divya Reddy, Jacob Walker, Gary Brandeis MD, Matt Russell MD, C Robert Horsburgh Jr, Natasha Hochberg; Latent Tuberculosis Infection Screening Practices in Long-Term Care Facilities; J Am Geriatr Soc, 2017, 65: 1145–1151. doi:10.1111/jgs.14696, PMID 28467605

4.     Divya Reddy, Yicheng Ma, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Swaroop Sahu, Laura F. White, Ayiraveetil Reshma, Gautam Roy, Padmini Salgame, Selby Knudsen, Jerrold J. Ellner, C. Robert Horsburgh, Jr., Sonali Sarkar, Natasha S. Hochberg, Severe Undernutrition in Children Affects Tuberculin Skin Test Performance in Southern India. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0250304. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0250304, PMID 34270546

Book Chapters:

1.     O’Donnell M, Reddy D, Saukkonen J; Antimycobacterial agents; 19^th Edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2015. Volume 2. Chapter 205e, p. 1132-41

2.     Reddy D, O’Donnell M; Antimycobacterial agents; 20^th Edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2018. Volume 1. Chapter 176, p. 1270-79

3.     Reddy D, Saukkonen J; Hepatoxicity associated with anti-tuberculosis treatment; 3^rd Edition of Textbook of Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2019. Chapter 45, p. 637-643

4.     Divya Reddy, Jerrold Ellner; Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis; 6^th Edition of Clinical Tuberculosis, CRC Press, 2020. Chapter 4, p. 51-76