Member – Board of Trustees
Dr. Kalpalatha Guntupalli serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees at the Hindu University of America and is an endowed Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. She earned her medical degree from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, and after immigrating to the United States, specialized in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, and critical care medicine.
Dr. Guntupalli has held faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh and Emory University, establishing herself as a leader in academic medicine. In 1999, she became the first woman to serve as President of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin. She later served as President of the American College of Chest Physicians in 2010. She was also a member of the Critical Care Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine for six years.
A respected clinician-scientist, Dr. Guntupalli’s research focuses on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and medical education. She has secured numerous research grants and has authored more than 150 scientific publications. Her distinguished career reflects decades of leadership, scholarship, and service in advancing pulmonary and critical care medicine.