Dr. Bhatt joined the Pitt faculty in 2020 as a staff hospitalist in the Division of General Internal Medicine Section of Hospital Medicine, where she has both clinical and teaching responsibilities. She received her medical degree from The George Washington University and completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She is particularly interested in initiatives around operations improvement and healthcare provider wellness. During her residency, she served as co-chair of the Medicine House Staff Committee, working to identify and resolve barriers to productivity and workflow. She has research experience in lupus and ocular imaging, having pioneered a novel methodology and device for a studying the lamina cribrosa.
- BS, Biology, St. Bonaventure University, 2012
- MD, The George Washington University, 2017
- Internal Medicine Residency, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, 2020
Education & Training
Chien JL, Ghassibi MP, Mahadeshwar P, Li P, Liebmann JM, Ritch R, Milman T, Park SC. A novel method for assessing lamina cribrosa structure ex vivo using anterior segment enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography. Journal of Glaucoma. 2017; 26(7):626-632.
Kapoor TM, Mahadeshwar P, Nguyen S, Li J, Kapoor S, Bathon J, Giles J, Askanase A. Low prevalence of Pneumocystis pneumonia in hospitalized patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Review of a clinical data warehouse. Lupus. 2017; 26(14):1473-1482.
Kapoor TM, Mahadeshwar P, Hui-Yuen J, Quinnies K, Tatonetti N, Gartshteyn Y, Guo C, Geraldino-Pardilla L, Askanase AD. Prevalence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in adults and children wtih system lupus erythematosus. Lupus Science and Medicine. 2020; 7(1):e000388.
- Medical Student Preceptorship Award, Rheumatology Research Foundation, 2016
