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Sheiphali Gandhi, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	530 Parnassus Avenue, #368 San Francisco CA 94143
ORCID	0000-0003-3156-7619
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Biography

Education and Training

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN	MD	2012
University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN	Residency and Chief Residency	2015	Internal Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL	Clinical Fellowship	2019	Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA	MPH	2020	Master's Public Health
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA	Residency (Fellowship)	2021	Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Overview

Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Divisions of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy Medicine. She is a dual-boarded pulmonologist and occupational/environmental medicine physician, specializing in occupational and environmental respiratory disease. She is the Associate Director of the San Francisco Veteran's Association Post-Deployment Cardiopulmonary Evaluation Network, assessing veterans with military exposures in Southwest Asia. Her research concentrates on the epidemiology of interstitial lung disease including pneumoconiosis and the occupational/environmental contributions to health disparities in interstitial lung disease.

In The News

	KTVU: Silica Dust Concerns (12/15/2023)
	The Guardian: Australia will become the first country to ban engineered stone bench tops. Will others follow? (12/14/2023)
	KQED: California Regulators to Vote on Emergency Rules for Stonecutters' Safety (12/11/2023)
	LA Times: California countertop workers died of a preventable disease. The threat was known years earlier (11/19/2023)
	LA Times: Engineered stone counter tops are killing workers at high rates. What can consumers do about it? (9/29/2023)
	LA Times: California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease (9/24/2023)
	NPR: Young men making quartz countertops are facing lung damage. One state is taking action (7/24/2023)
	KQED As Prescribed: The deadly truth about synthetic countertops (09/14/2023)
	NBC: Quartz countertops linked to deadly lung disease in workers who fabricate the material (07/25/2023)

Research

Research Activities and Funding

Understanding Pulmonary Fibrosis Through Complex Occupational Exposure Assessments
California Labor Lab Pilot Grants Program Sep 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

The MesoCase Study: Mesothelioma Case-Control and Rapid Case Ascertainment Study
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) F32 CA265103Dec 29, 2021 - Jun 27, 2023
Role: Principal Investigator

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Publications

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The Impact of Occupational Exposures on the Risk of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2024 Mar; 21(3):486-498. Gandhi SA, Min B, Fazio JC, Johannson KA, Steinmaus C, Reynolds CJ, Cummings KJ. PMID: 38096107; PMCID: PMC10913770.

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Pul Pulmonary Medicine
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Workers at Risk of Silicosis-Ongoing Overexposure and Lack of Medical Surveillance-Reply. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Feb 01; 184(2):225-226. Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Harrison RJ. PMID: 38109093.

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Int Internal Medicine
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Environmental Causes of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Nov 18; 24(22). Gandhi S, Tonelli R, Murray M, Samarelli AV, Spagnolo P. PMID: 38003670; PMCID: PMC10671449.

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Bio Biochemistry Che Chemistry Mol Molecular Biology
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Silicosis Among Immigrant Engineered Stone (Quartz) Countertop Fabrication Workers in California. JAMA Intern Med. 2023 09 01; 183(9):991-998. Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Flattery J, Heinzerling A, Kamangar N, Afif N, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. PMID: 37486642; PMCID: PMC10366949.

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Int Internal Medicine
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Active Surveillance of Engineered Stone Workers Facilitates Early Identification of Silicosis: A Discussion of Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases. New Solut. 2023 Nov; 33(2-3):119-129. Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Alam A, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. PMID: 37649363.

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Env Environmental Health Occ Occupational Medicine
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Occupational Contributions to Respiratory Health Disparities. Clin Chest Med. 2023 09; 44(3):635-649. Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Cummings KJ. PMID: 37517841; PMCID: PMC10861114.

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Pul Pulmonary Medicine
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A 35-Year-Old Man with Chronic Cough and Worsening Dyspnea. NEJM Evid. 2023 Apr; 2(4):EVIDmr2200338. Afif N, Fazio J, Gandhi S, Kamangar N, Monteiro AC. PMID: 38320024.

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Rare case of occupational pulmonary hemorrhage in a firefighter. Respir Med Case Rep. 2022; 39:101722. Gandhi SA, Welch TJ, Jones KD, Cummings KJ, Styles L, Blanc PD, Harrison RJ. PMID: 35993005; PMCID: PMC9389297.

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Impairment and disability evaluations: I. Psychosocial, economic, and medicolegal aspects. Asthma in the Workplace. 2021; 123-136. Lavoie KL, Dodd KE, Mazurek LM, Harber P, Gandhi S, Blanc PD, Torén K, Malo L-L.
Early radiographic pneumoconiosis is associated with impaired exercise gas exchange among coal miners with normal resting spirometry. Am J Ind Med. 2021 06; 64(6):453-461. Gandhi SA, Cohen RA, Blanc PD, Go LHT. PMID: 33768567.

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Occ Occupational Medicine
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Letter from California, USA. Respirology. 2021 01; 26(1):127-128. Gandhi SA. PMID: 33210398.

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Pul Pulmonary Medicine
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The role of the University of Minnesota Global Health Chief Resident in Minnesota and Tanzania. Annals of Global Health. 2016; 82(3):492-493. 4. Pogemiller, H., Gandhi, S., Fabrizius, R., Rothenberger, M., Walker, P., Rhodes, M. View Publication.
Methodologies for Pulmonary Artery Pressure Waveform and Wave Reflection Analysis in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension. Journal of Medical Devices. 2015; 9(2):1-3. Singal A, Gandhi SA, Pritzker M, Thenappan T.
Intracranial hemorrhage due to ANCA-associated isolated cerebral vasculitis. Minn Med. 2015 Apr; 98(4):43. Gandhi S, Fazeli P. PMID: 26065209.

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Med Medicine (General)
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Deep T-Wave Inversions: Cardiac Ischemia or Memory?. Journal of Cardiovascular Disease. 2014; (2):116-118. Vakil K, Gandhi SA, Abidi K, Tholakanahalli V, Sharma A, Zakharova M, Madlon-Kay R. View Publication.