Reena Gupta

Professor

Dr. Reena Gupta is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She is a public health leader and primary care physician focused on delivery of high quality health care services for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) at the primary care level in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr. Gupta is Chief Medical Officer, Performance Improvement for Cardiovascular Health at Resolve to Save Lives, a global organization that partners with ministries of health, WHO, and local partners to implement patient-centered hypertension and diabetes programs in primary care settings across 40 countries. These programs currently provide treatment to over 40 million people in more than 220,000 health facilities. In this role, she provides strategic and technical guidance to improve the quality of health services for the control of hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.

She serves on several international advisory groups including the World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group for Diabetes and the World Health Organization Dyslipidemia Guideline Development Group.

Dr Gupta received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed residency in internal medicine at UCSF, and is a practicing physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
Education
Residency, - School of Medicine - Primary Care, University of California, San Francisco
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Publications

  1. Garcia W, Amiosior O, Choudhury SR, Sambo E, Osi K, Beshah SA, Dessie G, Lam H, Banigbe B, Gupta R, Watkins D, Moran AE. Budget Impact and Investment Case for HEARTS Hypertension Control Programs in 4 Low- and Middle-Income Countries. JACC. Advances 2025. PMID: 41370862


  2. Banigbe BF, Moran AE, Gupta R, Cazabon D, Aimiosior O, Osi K, Pathni AK, Sahoo SK, Dessie GA, Zhang X, Garg R, Frieden TR. Lessons Learned From Treating 34 Million People With Hypertension: The Global HEARTS Initiative. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2025. PMID: 41338844


  3. Londoño E, Gupta R, Stuyft PV, Heine M, Giraldo G, Ku GM, Brettler J, Rosende A, Irazola V, Toelsie J, Neira C, Aumala T, Valdés Y, Zúñiga E, Rodríguez L, Villatoro M, Escobar MC, Pérez V, Bencomo A, Pereira M, Rosa A, Ordunez P. HEARTS quality: a policy framework to strengthen hypertension and cardiovascular risk management in primary healthcare-insights from HEARTS in the Americas. Lancet regional health. Americas 2025. PMID: 41438613


  4. Moran AE, Aimiosior O, Gupta R, Pathni A, Sahoo SK, Dessie G, Osi K, Zhang X, Banigbe B, Garg R, Frieden TR. Integrated Antihypertensive and Statin Treatment Protocols for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Global heart 2024. PMID: 39677503


  5. Jubayer S, Akhtar J, Abrar AK, Sayem MNN, Islam S, Amin KE, Nahid MF, Bhuiyan MR, Al Mamun MA, Alim A, Amin MR, Burka D, Gupta P, Zhao D, Matsushita K, Moran AE, Choudhury SR, Gupta R. Text messaging to improve retention in hypertension care in Bangladesh. Journal of human hypertension 2024. PMID: 39182005


  6. Abrar A, Hu X, Akhtar J, Jubayer S, Noor Nabi Sayem M, Sultana S, Al Mamun MA, Bhuiyan MR, Malik F, Amin MR, Alim A, Gupta R, Zhao D, Farrell M, Banigbe B, Matsushita K, Burka D, Appel L, Moran AE, Choudhury SR. Evaluation of the World Health Organization-HEARTS hypertension control package in Bangladesh: a quasi-experimental trial. Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2024. PMID: 39019496


  7. Albitres-Flores L, Perez-Leon S, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Tenorio-Mucha J, Cardenas MK, Vetter B, Safary E, Gamboa R, Cordova V, Gupta R, Moran A, Beran D, Lazo-Porras M. Co-creation process of an intervention to implement a multiparameter point-of-care testing device in a primary healthcare setting for non-communicable diseases in Peru. BMC health services research 2024. PMID: 38553724


  8. Moran AE, Gupta R, Global Hearts Initiative Collaborators. Implementation of Global Hearts Hypertension Control Programs in 32 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: JACC International. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2023. PMID: 37734459


  9. Jubayer S, Hasan MM, Luna M, Al Mamun MA, Bhuiyan MR, Sayem NN, Amin MR, Farrell M, Moran AE, Gupta R, Choudhury SR. Availability of Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus Care Services at Subdistrict Level in Bangladesh. WHO South-East Asia journal of public health 2023. PMID: 38848529


  10. Tenorio-Mucha J, Busta-Flores P, Lazo-Porras M, Vetter B, Safary E, Moran AE, Gupta R, Bernabé-Ortiz A. Facilitators and barriers of the implementation of point-of-care devices for cardiometabolic diseases: a scoping review. BMC health services research 2023. PMID: 37118750


  11. Chen A, Ayub MH, Mishuris RG, Rodriguez JA, Gwynn K, Lo MC, Noronha C, Henry TL, Jones D, Lee WW, Varma M, Cuevas E, Onumah C, Gupta R, Goodson J, Lu AD, Syed Q, Suen LW, Heiman E, Salhi BA, Khoong EC, Schmidt S. Telehealth Policy, Practice, and Education: a Position Statement of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Journal of general internal medicine 2023. PMID: 37095331


  12. Burka D, Gupta R, Moran AE, Cohn J, Choudhury SR, Cheadle T, Mullick R, Frieden TR. Keep it simple: designing a user-centred digital information system to support chronic disease management in low/middle-income countries. BMJ health & care informatics 2023. PMID: 36639189


  13. Schmidt S, Gupta R, Bracey J, Volerman A, Henry T, Jackson C, Levine D, Jones D, Richter JM, Schmidt J, Rotenstein L, Berger Z, Peairs K, Singh H, Schwartz M, Bailey J, Goodson J. Primary Care Practice Transformation in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Principles for General Internal Medicine Practitioners. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021. PMID: 34845581


  14. Cazabon D, Farrell M, Gupta R, Joseph L, Pathni AK, Sahoo S, Kunwar A, Elliott K, Cohn J, Frieden TR, Moran AE. A simple six-step guide to National-Scale Hypertension Control Program implementation. Journal of human hypertension 2021. PMID: 34702957


  15. Hoffer-Hawlik M, Moran A, Zerihun L, Usseglio J, Cohn J, Gupta R. Telemedicine interventions for hypertension management in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review. PloS one 2021. PMID: 34242327


  16. Hoffer-Hawlik MA, Moran AE, Burka D, Kaur P, Cai J, Frieden TR, Gupta R. Leveraging Telemedicine for Chronic Disease Management in Low- and Middle-Income Countries During Covid-19. Global heart 2020. PMID: 33150128


  19. Liu C, Miyajima T, Melangath G, Miyai T, Vasanth S, Deshpande N, Kumar V, Ong Tone S, Gupta R, Zhu S, Vojnovic D, Chen Y, Rogan EG, Mondal B, Zahid M, Jurkunas UV. Ultraviolet A light induces DNA damage and estrogen-DNA adducts in Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy causing females to be more affected. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019. PMID: 31852820


  21. Lyson HC, Ackerman S, Lyles C, Schillinger D, Williams P, Gourley G, Gupta R, Handley M, Sarkar U. Redesigning primary care in the safety net: A qualitative analysis of team-based care implementation. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018. PMID: 30552044


  23. Dubé K, Gupta R, Kong M, Knox M, Bodenheimer T. Continuity of Care in Residency Teaching Practices: Lessons from "Bright Spots". The Permanente journal 2018. PMID: 30010534


  24. Dulay M, Laponis R, O'Brien BC, Gupta R, Ramanan RA, Julian K. An Intensive Continuity Clinic Immersion Experience for Interns: A Springboard to Confidence and Satisfaction With Continuity Clinic. Journal of graduate medical education 2017. PMID: 29075384


  25. Gupta R, Barnes K, Bodenheimer T. Clinic First: 6 Actions to Transform Ambulatory Residency Training. Journal of graduate medical education 2016. PMID: 27777657


  26. Gupta R, Dubé K, Bodenheimer T. The Road to Excellence for Primary Care Resident Teaching Clinics. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2016. PMID: 26826073


  27. Fontil V, Gupta R, Bibbins-Domingo K. Missed opportunities: young adults with hypertension and lifestyle counseling in clinical practice. Journal of general internal medicine 2015. PMID: 25761619


  28. Willard-Grace R, Dubé K, Hessler D, O'Brien B, Earnest G, Gupta R, Shunk R, Grumbach K. Panel management, team culture, and worklife experience. Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare 2015. PMID: 25730504


  29. Rogers EA, Hessler D, Dube K, Willard-Grace R, Gupta R, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K. The panel management questionnaire: a tool to measure panel management capability. The Permanente journal 2015. PMID: 25785637


  30. Gupta R, Bodenheimer T. How primary care practices can improve continuity of care. JAMA internal medicine 2013. PMID: 24042733


  31. Gupta R, Davis E, Horton C. Interval examination: building primary care teams in an urban academic teaching clinic. Journal of general internal medicine 2013. PMID: 24043568


  32. Sarkar U, Handley MA, Gupta R, Tang A, Murphy E, Seligman HK, Shojania KG, Schillinger D. Use of an interactive, telephone-based self-management support program to identify adverse events among ambulatory diabetes patients. Volume 23 of Issue 4. Journal of general internal medicine 2008. PMID: 18373145


  34. Bangsberg DR, Acosta EP, Gupta R, Guzman D, Riley ED, Harrigan PR, Parkin N, Deeks SG. Adherence-resistance relationships for protease and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors explained by virological fitness. AIDS (London, England) 2006. PMID: 16511415


  35. Kushel MB, Gupta R, Gee L, Haas JS. Housing instability and food insecurity as barriers to health care among low-income Americans. Volume 21 of Issue 1. Journal of general internal medicine 2006. PMID: 16423128