Manisha Juthani-Mehta, M.D.

Clinical Interests

Dr. Juthani is interested in hospital acquired infections, infection control, and the emergence of resistant organisms in the nursing home setting. She provides clinical care on the HIV inpatient medicine service and on the Infectious Diseases consultation service at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Research Interests

Dr. Juthani is primarily interested in infectious diseases in the aging population. Specifically, she is investigating diagnostic criteria for urinary tract infections in nursing home residents. Because of the high prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in nursing home residents which does not require treatment and because nursing home residents present with non-specific clinical symptoms, clinical criteria for UTI diagnosis in nursing home residents is problematic. Currently, Dr. Juthani is conducting an observational cohort study at New Haven area nursing homes in conjunction with the Yale Program on Aging entitled "Defining UTI in Nursing Home Residents." Dr. Juthani's research is supported by the NIH, the Claude D. Pepper Center at Yale, Atlantic Philanthropies, IDSA/NFID, John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Association of Specialty Professors.

Professional Memberships

2001-present, Member, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
2005-present, Member, The American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
2006-present, Member, The Society of Healthcare Epidemiology in America (SHEA)

Education

B.A., Biological Basis of Behavior, Summa Cum Laude
University of Pennsylvania, 1994

M.D., Cornell University Medical College, 1998

Internal Medicine Residency, 1998-2001
New York and Presbyterian Hospital, The New York Hospital-Weill Medical College

Chief Resident, 2001-2002
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)

Fellowship, 2002-2005
Yale Univeristy School of Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2001
American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, 2005

Recent Publications

• Lachman H, Papolos D, Boyle A, Sheftel G, Juthani M, Emmelene E, Henn F. Alterations in Glucocorticoid Inducible RNAs in the Limbic System of Learned Helpless Rats. Brain Research 1993;609(1-2):110-116.
• Juthani M. A Comparison of Asian-American and American Jewish Involvement in the Medical Profession. JAMA 1997;277(9):768-769.
• Juthani-Mehta M, Quagliarello VJ. Prognostic Scoring Systems for Infectious Diseases: Their Applicability to the Care of Older Adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2004;38:692-6.
• Juthani-Mehta M, Drickamer MA, Towle V, Zhang Y, Tinetti ME, Quagliarello VJ. Nursing Home Practitioner Survey of Diagnostic Criteria for Urinary Tract Infections. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2005:531986-1990.
• Juthani-Mehta M, Quagliarello VJ. Infection Management in the Elderly. Infections in Medicine 2005;22:368-374.
• Juthani-Mehta M. Suspected UTI in Nursing Home Residents: When to Test. Consultant, 2005;46(14):1581.
• Juthani-Mehta M, Tinetti M, Perrelli E, Towle V, Van Ness P, Quagliarello V. Diagnostic Accuracy of UTI Criteria in a Cohort of Nursing Home Residents. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01217.x.
• Juthani-Mehta M, Tinetti M, Perrelli E, Towle V, Quagliarello V. The Role of Dipstick Testing in the Evaluation of UTI in Nursing Home Residents. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2007; 28:889-891.
• Juthani-Mehta M. Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infection in Older Adults. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, In press, 2007.
• Van Ness P, Juthani-Mehta M. Testing Measurement Reliability in Older Populations: Statistical Methods for Reliability Inference and Unreliability Detection. Journal of Aging and Health, In press, 2008.

Contact

Campus Address
LMP 5040A

E-mail
manisha.juthanimehta@yale.edu

Office Phone
(203) 785-4140

Fax
(203) 737-3306