Sunanda Gaur, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Adult and Pediatric Clinical Research Centers, and Director, SATHI
Bio
Dr. Sunanda Gaur is a Professor of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School specializing in Infectious Diseases. Working on Pediatric AIDS since 1983, Dr. Gaur has had a unique carrier bookended by two global pandemics, HIV and COVId-19. She served as the director of the Robert Wood Johnson AIDS Program for almost three decades and is considered a leading voice on Pediatric HIV in NJ serving as Chair of the Family-Centered HIV Care Network. She has overseen over 40 NIH sponsored HIV clinical trials and her team was the first to document child-to-child transmission of HIV.
In 2006, Dr. Gaur was appointed Director of Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) at RWJMS. Under her leadership the center has seen tremendous growth; the number of trials increasing from 1-2 /year to 30-40 trials/year. Subsequently, in 2016 she assumed directorship of the Adult CRC spearheading exponential growth in the number, diversity and complexity of clinical trials. Since 2018, Dr. Gaur is co-leading the Clinical Trials Office of the Rutgers NIH funded Clinical and Translational Science Award. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CRC rapidly pivoted to activate a large number of COVID-19 studies including an 800-participant health care worker study, several COVID-19 therapeutic trials as well as the J&J and Pfizer vaccine trials.
Throughout her career, Dr. Gaur has received over 25 million dollars in grants, published over 75 papers, and has maintained a deep interest in health disparities as the founding director of the South Asian Total Health Initiative (SATHI), a Rutgers based community health research and outreach initiative founded in 2007.
Credentials
- MD: MBBS, King George Medical College, Lucknow, India, 1977
- Internship: Rotating Internship and Residency in Pediatrics, King George Medical College, Lucknow, India, 1980
- Residency: Pediatrics, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 1985
- Fellowship: Pediatric Infectious Disease, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, 1987
Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics, 1988
- American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Disease, 1997, Recertified 2004
Professional Organizations
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
- Infectious Disease Society of America
- American Association of Physicians from India