Sheiphali Gandhi, MD

Education
Post-doctoral fellowship, 2023 - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco
Residency (Fellowship), 2021 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco
MPH, 2020 - Master's Public Health, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
Clinical Fellowship, 2019 - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency and Chief Residency, 2015 - Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine
MD, 2012 - , Indiana University School of Medicine
Honors and Awards
  • Parker B Francis Fellowship, Francis Family Foundation, 2025-2028
  • KL2 Scholar, UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI), 2024-2027
  • Irene Perstein Award, UCSF Department of Medicine, 2024-2027
  • Hellman Fellowship, University of California, 2024-2026
  • Travel Award, Western Association of Physicians and Western Society of Clinical Investigation, 2023
  • Targeted Research Training Grant, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 2020-2021
  • Environmental, Occupational, and Population Health Abstract Scholarship, American Thoracic Society, 2019
  • Best Medical Intensive Care Unit Fellow Teacher, Northwestern University, 2019
  • Arthur R. Metz Endowed Fellowship Recipient in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University, 2018-2019
  • Environmental, Occupational and Population Health Abstract Scholarship, American Thoracic Society, 2018
  • Annual Scientific Meeting Kean Travel Grant, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2015
  • Baccalaureate/Medical Degree Scholarship Recipient, University of Southern Indiana/Indiana University School of Medicine, 2004-2012
Websites
Publications

  1. Murray M, Blanc P, Kales SN, Balmes J, Frederick M, Cummings KJ, Harrison R, Gandhi S. Respiratory Injuries among California Career Firefighters, 2000-2019. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2025. PMID: 40961123


  2. Flattery J, Woolsey C, Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Harrison RJ, Cummings KJ. Silicosis Surveillance in California, 2019-2024: Tracking an Epidemic. American journal of public health 2025. PMID: 40906995


  3. Fazio JC, Garcia SR, Torres IR, Gandhi SA, Cummings KJ, Buhr RG, Riley K, Ponce N, Bustamante AV, Glenn B. Silica Hazards in Engineered Stone Countertop Production: Worker Experiences and Challenges in Los Angeles. American journal of industrial medicine 2025. PMID: 40722211


  4. Heinzerling A, Harrison R, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Gandhi S, Cummings KJ. Reply to Currow et al. and to Akgün. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2025. PMID: 40173455


  5. Lee CT, Gandhi SA, Elmrayed S, Barnes H, Lorenzetti D, Salisbury ML, Stewart ID, Barber C, Peters CE, Feary J, Johannson KA. Inhalational exposures associated with risk of interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax 2025. PMID: 40518258


  6. Heinzerling A, Harrison R, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Gandhi S, Cummings KJ. Deadly Countertops: An Urgent Need to Eliminate Silicosis among Engineered Stone Workers. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2025. PMID: 39746192


  7. Fazio JC, Viragh K, Houlroyd J, Gandhi SA. A review of silicosis and other silica-related diseases in the engineered stone countertop processing industry. Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) 2025. PMID: 40098042


  8. Fazio JC, Heinzerling A, Gandhi SA, Redlich CA, Cummings KJ. Silicosis: A Chronic Work-related Lung Disease. ATS scholar 2025. PMID: 39964259


  9. Margaret Murray, Stella Beckman, Amy Heinzerling, Matthew Frederick, Kristin J. Cummings, *Sheiphali Gandhi, *Robert Harrison (*denotes shared last authorship). Heat-Related Illness in California Firefighters, 2001-2020 American Journal of Industral Medicine 2025. PMID:


  10. Chartres N, Cooper CB, Bland G, Pelch KE, Gandhi SA, BakenRa A, Woodruff TJ. Effects of Microplastic Exposure on Human Digestive, Reproductive, and Respiratory Health: A Rapid Systematic Review. Environmental science & technology 2024. PMID: 39692326


  11. Barnes H, Elmrayed S, Barber CM, Feary J, Lee CT, Gandhi S, Peters CE, Salisbury ML, Johannson KA. Scoping review of exposure questionnaires and surveys in interstitial lung disease. BMJ open respiratory research 2024. PMID: 38754906


  12. Gandhi SA, Min B, Fazio JC, Johannson KA, Steinmaus C, Reynolds CJ, Cummings KJ. The Impact of Occupational Exposures on the Risk of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023. PMID: 38096107


  13. Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Harrison RJ. Workers at Risk of Silicosis-Ongoing Overexposure and Lack of Medical Surveillance-Reply. JAMA internal medicine 2023. PMID: 38109093


  14. Gandhi S, Tonelli R, Murray M, Samarelli AV, Spagnolo P. Environmental Causes of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Volume 24 of Issue 22. International journal of molecular sciences 2023. PMID: 38003670


  15. Fazio JC, Gandhi SA, Flattery J, Heinzerling A, Kamangar N, Afif N, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. Silicosis Among Immigrant Engineered Stone (Quartz) Countertop Fabrication Workers in California. JAMA internal medicine 2023. PMID: 37486642


  16. Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Fazio JC, Alam A, Cummings KJ, Harrison RJ. Active Surveillance of Engineered Stone Workers Facilitates Early Identification of Silicosis: A Discussion of Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases. New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS 2023. PMID: 37649363


  17. Gandhi SA, Heinzerling A, Flattery J, Cummings KJ. Occupational Contributions to Respiratory Health Disparities. Clinics in chest medicine 2023. PMID: 37517841


  18. Afif N, Fazio J, Gandhi S, Kamangar N, Monteiro AC. A 35-Year-Old Man with Chronic Cough and Worsening Dyspnea. NEJM Evidence 2023. PMID: 38320024


  19. Gandhi SA, Welch TJ, Jones KD, Cummings KJ, Styles L, Blanc PD, Harrison RJ. Rare case of occupational pulmonary hemorrhage in a firefighter. Respiratory medicine case reports 2022. PMID: 35993005


  20. Lavoie KL, Dodd KE, Mazurek LM, Harber P, Gandhi S, Blanc PD, Torén K, Malo L-L. Impairment and disability evaluations: I. Psychosocial, economic, and medicolegal aspects Asthma in the Workplace 2021. PMID:


  22. Gandhi SA. Letter from California, USA. Volume 26 of Issue 1. Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) 2020. PMID: 33210398


  23. 4. Pogemiller, H., Gandhi, S., Fabrizius, R., Rothenberger, M., Walker, P., Rhodes, M. The role of the University of Minnesota Global Health Chief Resident in Minnesota and Tanzania Annals of global health 2016. PMID:


  24. Singal A, Gandhi SA, Pritzker M, Thenappan T.. Methodologies for Pulmonary Artery Pressure Waveform and Wave Reflection Analysis in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension Journal of Medical Devices 2015. PMID:


  25. Gandhi S, Fazeli P. Intracranial hemorrhage due to ANCA-associated isolated cerebral vasculitis. Volume 98 of Issue 4. Minnesota medicine 2015. PMID: 26065209


  26. Vakil K, Gandhi SA, Abidi K, Tholakanahalli V, Sharma A, Zakharova M, Madlon-Kay R.. Deep T-Wave Inversions: Cardiac Ischemia or Memory? Journal of Cardiovascular Disease 2014. PMID: