Meera Gupta, MD

Dr. Gupta earned an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and where she completed general surgery residency and transplant surgery fellowship. As a resident at the University of Pennsylvania, Gupta earned a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics and a certificate in Healthcare Leadership in Quality. She focused her research on outcomes in pediatric and adult kidney and liver transplantation, re-transplantation, and recipients of hematopoietic cell transplantation. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Areas of expertise include adult and pediatric transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, peritoneal dialysis access, and living donation.

At UK HealthCare, Gupta serves as a transplant educational mentor for residents and medical students.

She is one of the 2019 recipients of the High Impact Award through the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at UK and will embark on a study of bone and mineral metabolism in kidney transplantation.

Additionally, Gupta is actively involved in several medical and surgical societies and serves as an editorial fellow for the American Journal of Transplantation.