Overview
Shauna Gunaratne is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Medical Center, as well as the Associate Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. Her clinical interests include management of patients living with HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections, HIV primary care, and PrEP, PEP and STI services, along with general infectious diseases. She recently obtained a DTM&H and is interested in tropical and travel medicine. She is also actively involved in fellow and resident education about HIV, tropical medicine, and general infectious diseases.
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Administrative Titles
- Associate Fellowship Program Director
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
Gender
- Female
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Insurance Accepted
Aetna
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- HMO
- NYP Employee Plan
- NY Signature
- PPO
- Student Health
Affinity Health Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
AgeWell
- Medicare Managed Care
- Special Needs
Amerigroup of New Jersey
- New Jersey Services (Medicaid Managed Care)
Amida Care
- Special Needs
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- ConnectiCare
- EPO
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- EPO
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
Fidelis Care
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Healthfirst
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Leaf (Exchange)
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Local 1199
- Local 1199
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Multiplan
- Multiplan
MVP Health Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
Quality Health Management
- Quality Health Management
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid (Community Plan)
- Oxford Freedom
- Oxford HMO
- Oxford Liberty
- POS
- PPO
VNSNY CHOICE
- SelectHealth
WellCare
- Medicare Managed Care
World Trade Center Health Plan
- World Trade Center Health Plan
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Research
Selected Publications
- Gunaratne SH, Tieu HV, Wilkin TJ, Taylor BS. CROI 2022: Advances in Antiviral Therapy for HIV, COVID-19, and Viral Hepatitis. Top Antivir Med. 2022;30(3):490-521.
- Ko ER, Henao R, Frankey K, Petzold EA, Isner PD, Jaehne AK, Allen N, Gardner-Gray J, Hurst G, Pflaum-Carlson J, Jayaprakash N, Rivers EP, Wang H, Ugalde I, Amanullah S, Mercurio L, Chun TH, May L, Hickey RW, Lazarus JE, Gunaratne SH, Pallin DJ, Jambaulikar G, Huckins DS, Ampofo K, Jhaveri R, Jiang Y, Komarow L, Evans SR, Ginsburg GS, Tillekeratne LG, McClain MT, Burke TW, Woods CW, Tsalik EL; Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group. Prospective Validation of a Rapid Host Gene Expression Test to Discriminate Bacterial From Viral Respiratory Infection. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e227299.
- Gunaratne SH, Tieu HV, Wilkin TJ, Taylor BS. CROI 2021: Advances in Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV and Antiviral Therapy for COVID-19. Top Antivir Med. 2021 Jun-Jul;29(3):361-378.
- Mehta, M, Purpura L, McConville, T, Neidell, M, Anderson, M, Bernstein, E, Dietz, D, Laracy, J, Gunaratne, S, […], Sobieszczyk, M. What about tocilizumab? A retrospective study from a NYC Hospital during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Apr 2021. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0249349.
- Gunaratne SH., Hurtado R. (2020) What a Surgeon Needs to Know About the Diagnosis and (Medical) Treatment of Hydatid Disease. In: Tsoulfas G., Hoballah J., Velmahos G., Ho YH. (eds) The Surgical Management of Parasitic Diseases. Springer, Cham.
- Gunaratne S, Gandhi RT. HIV-2 Infection: Latest Advances. Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases. 2019, Jul (online).
- Anand P, Mukerji SS, Thon J, Gunaratne S, Cho TA, Venna N. Steroid-sparing agents for the treatment of inflammation in complicated neurocysticercosis. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm Nov 2019, 6 (6) e606.
- Gunaratne S., Masinter L., Kolak M., Feinglass J. Change in Population Characteristics and Teen Birth Rates in 77 Community Areas: Chicago, Illinois, 1999-2009. Public Health Reports. 2015, Jul; 130(4): 372-379.
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov