Sumanth Gandra, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
- Phone: 314-454-8276
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: gandras@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. Sumanth Gandra is an adult infectious disease physician and Professor of Medicine and Public Health in the Division of Infectious Diseases. His professional work spans clinical care, academic leadership, infection prevention, clinical and public health research, and medical education.
Clinically, Dr. Gandra provides direct patient care and leads the Orthopedic Infectious Disease section, while also contributing to infection prevention and patient safety initiatives at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Gandra attends general and orthopedic infectious disease services, where he teaches fellows, residents, medical students and has mentored post-doctoral fellows, doctoral students, infectious disease fellows, medicine residents and undergraduate students.
Dr. Gandra’s clinical and translational research focuses on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with particular emphasis on developing low-cost point-of-care diagnostics, optimizing antibiotic use through standard treatment guidelines, and advancing hospital and healthcare epidemiology in low- and middle-income countries, especially India. His research has been funded by the United States NIH, CDC, and WHO. Dr. Gandra also serves on WHO technical and guideline committees, reviews for NIH study sections, and co-chairs the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases global treatment guidelines for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections.
Infectious Diseases Clinic
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110
- Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
- MBBS – Medicine: Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (2004)
- MPH – Community Medicine: Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY (2007)
- MD – Infectious Diseases Fellowship: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA (2013)
- Medical Microbiology Fellowship: University of Chicago/NorthShore University HealthSystem, Chicago, IL (2018)
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty of Infectious Diseases
- Edward H. Kass Award for Clinical Excellence, Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society (2012)
- Maxwell Finland Award for Excellence in Research, Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society (2012)
- Member of WHO Expert committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines (2017- Present)
- Member of WHO Scientific committee on Antimicrobial Stewardship in Low and Middle-income countries (2018)
- Member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on AWaRe (2025 – Present)
- Co-chair for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Multidrug resistant Gram-negative infections treatment guidelines panel (2025 – Present)
- Hall LR, Benedict EE, Edathadathil F, Jacob JJ, Suresh D, Krishna Y, Varghese JA, van Rheenen J, George IA, Kwon JH, Olsen MA, Vasudevan AK, Petersen EE, Westercamp M, Leekha S, Dantas G, Veeraraghavan B, Vayoth SO, Singh SK, Warren DK, Gandra S. Carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in surgical intensive care unit patients in a tertiary hospital in India. Nat Commun. 2026 Jun 22. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-74764-9. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42331860.
- Thapa P, Shukla P, Joshi C, Sayood S, Sinha PK, Timilsina D, Dutta M, Pai M, Rahimi SA, Gandra S. Impact of WHO AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook training on antibiotics prescribing knowledge among private primary care providers: a vignette-based, prep-post pilot study in Patna, India. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2026 Mar 27;15(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s13756-026-01735-6. PMID: 41897013; PMCID: PMC13151071.
- Liu Y, Jiang Q, Tan A, Kondepati G, Gupta P, Wang Y, Chandar Y, Bach TH, House SL, Rice PA, Parikh BA, …& Gandra S. Ultrasensitive Point-of-Care Antigen Test for Detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Using Plasmon-Enhanced Lateral Flow Assays. ACS Nano Medicine. 2026 Feb 3. doi: 10.1021/acsnanomed.5c00150
- Sayood S, Neuner E, Dumm R, Gandra S. The oral penems and carbapenems. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2025 Dec 11;38(4):e0004224. doi: 10.1128/cmr.00042-24. Epub 2025 Sep 3. PMID: 40899846; PMCID: PMC12697175.
- Gandra S, Singh SK, Chakravarthy M, Moni M, Dhekane P, Mohamed Z, Shameen F, Vasudevan AK, Senthil P, Saravanan T, George A, Sinclair D, Stwalley D, van Rheenen J, Westercamp M, Smith RM, Leekha S, Warren DK. Epidemiology and preventability of hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia in 2 hospitals in India. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Feb;45(2):157-166. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.170. Epub 2023 Aug 18. PMID: 37593953; PMCID: PMC10877540.
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