Sri Edupuganti, MD, MPH

Biography

Dr. Edupuganti received her MD degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and her Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Emory University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She also received a MPH in Epidemiology form the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. In September 2006, she joined the faculty of the Division of Infectious Diseases as a member of the Hope Clinic where vaccine clinical trials are conducted.

Dr. Edupuganti's research interests are translational research in vaccines and vaccine development. She is based at the Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center and serves as the Medical Director. She has been focused on HIV vaccine development for the past 10 years. She is the Hope Clinic CRS leader for the DAIDS funded Emory-CDC Clinical Trials Unit. She is a site investigator/co-investigator for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) studies that are being conducted at the Hope clinic. She serves as the Clinical Core leader for translational immunology projects funded by CCHI of NIAID.

She is an attending physician at Emory Healthcare.

She is involved in the teaching, administrative activities and conferences of the Division of Infectious Diseases including lectures, interviews, journal club, case of the week and research seminars. At the Hope Clinic, she participates in the training of junior, international, and minority investigators in vaccine clinical trials, methodologies, provides education, prevention, and community outreach services, which includes speaking to community and other groups regarding vaccine development.