Divya B. Reddy
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: #fefefe;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">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. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: #fefefe;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">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.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: #fefefe;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Reddy is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">member of numerous professional societies, including the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. <strong>Reddy D</strong>, Little F; Glucocorticoid-Resistant Asthma: More than meets the eye; <em>J Asthma</em> December 2013, Vol. 50, No. 10, Pages 1036-1044, PMID 23923995</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. <strong>Reddy D</strong>, 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. <em>Mycobact Dis</em> 2016, 6:227. doi: 10.4172/2161-1068.1000227.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. <strong>Divya Reddy</strong>, Jacob Walker, Gary Brandeis MD, Matt Russell MD, C Robert Horsburgh Jr, Natasha Hochberg; Latent Tuberculosis Infection Screening Practices in Long-Term Care Facilities<em>; J Am Geriatr Soc</em>, 2017, 65: 1145–1151. doi:10.1111/jgs.14696, PMID 28467605</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. O’Donnell M, <strong>Reddy D</strong>, Saukkonen J; Antimycobacterial agents; 19<sup>th</sup> Edition of <em>Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine</em>, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2015. Volume 2. Chapter 205e, p. 1132-41</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. <strong>Reddy D</strong>, O’Donnell M; Antimycobacterial agents; 20<sup>th</sup> Edition of <em>Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, </em>McGraw-Hill Professional, 2018. Volume 1. Chapter 176, p. 1270-79</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. <strong>Reddy D</strong>, Saukkonen J; Hepatoxicity associated with anti-tuberculosis treatment;<strong> </strong>3<sup>rd</sup> Edition of <em>Textbook of</em> <em>Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases,</em> Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2019. Chapter 45, p. 637-643</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0.0001pt 27pt; text-indent: -22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4. <strong>Divya Reddy</strong>, Jerrold Ellner; Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis; 6<sup>th </sup>Edition of <em>Clinical Tuberculosis</em>, CRC Press, 2020. Chapter 4, p. 51-76</span></p>
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<p>Divya Reddy, MD, MPH, is Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus centers on bronchiectasis, nontuberculous mycobacterial infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and interstitial lung disease.</p><p>After earning her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College in Mumbai, India in 2006, Dr. Reddy moved to the United States to continue her medical training, earning her Master of Public Health at Boston University in 2008. She remained there to complete her internal medicine internship in 2009, followed by her internal medicine residency in 2011. Dr. Reddy then completed a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Boston University in 2014.</p><p>Building on her clinical experience, Dr. Reddy’s research is focused on bronchiectasis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on several funded research projects, and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, review articles and abstracts. She has also given national and international invited presentations, and is a reviewer for scientific journals including the <em>Journal of American Geriatric Society</em>, <em>Annals of American Thoracic Society</em> and the <em>Journal of Infectious & Non-Infectious Diseases</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Reddy is board certified in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors. In 2014 and 2015, Dr. Reddy received the Potts Memorial Foundation Grant award.</p>