Education & Training
Medical School
Madurai Medical College
Residency
Internal Medicine
- University of Missouri at Columbia
Fellowship
Infectious Diseases
- University of Missouri at Columbia
Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine
- University of Missouri at Columbia
Boards
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease
American Board of Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine
Insurances
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Academic Information
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medical Director, Progressive Care Unit, MU Health Care University Hospital
Clinical Consultant, MU Health Care Microbiology Lab
Office
1 Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212
United States
F. 573-884-1235
Research Interests
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Nosocomial Infections
- Sepsis/Septic Shock
- Infective Endocarditis
- Imported exotic diseases
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Areas of Expertise
- Hospitalist medicine
- Critical care medicine
- Infectious diseases
Awards & Honors
Honors & Awards
- 2021 - American College of Physicians - Book Award in honor of outstanding education contributions
- 2021 - Excellence in Teaching Award - Family Medicine Residency Program
- 2019 - Excellence in Education: Most Outstanding Clinical Educator (Medical Students Affairs Council)
- 2019 - Outstanding teacher – Department of Medicine
- 2018 - Quality Improvement Mentor of the Year 2017-18
- 2018 - Outstanding Teacher – Department of Medicine
- 2017 - Student Teaching Award - Outstanding Clinical Faculty - Inpatient
- 2013 - Overall Best Resident
Profesional Societies
- American College of Physicians
- Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- American Medical Association
Appointments
- 2009-10: Assistant professor, Medical Intensive Care Unit, SRM Medical College and Research Center, India
Publications
Selected Publications
- Regunath H, Moulton, N., Woolery, D., Alnijoumi, M., Whitacre, T., & Collins, J. (2018). Ultra-protective mechanical ventilation without extra-corporeal carbon dioxide removal for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 1751143718774712.
- Haslag-Minoff J, Regunath H. Relapsing Polychondritis. N Engl J Med. 2018 May 3;378(18):1715. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm1713302. PubMed PMID: 29719184
- Regunath H, Cochran K, Cornell K, Shortridge J, Kim D, Akbar S, Boshard B,Chitima-Matsiga R, Reddy J, Keithahn S, Koller JP. Is It Painful to Manage Chronic Pain? A Cross-Sectional Study of Physicians In-Training in a University Program. Mo Med. 2016 Jan-Feb;113(1):72-8. PubMed PMID: 27039496.
- Regunath H, Kimball J, Smith LP, Salzer W. Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia with Bacteremia Caused by Herbaspirillum aquaticum or Herbaspirillum huttiense in an Immune-Competent Adult. J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Sep; 53 (9):3086-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01324-15. Epub 2015 Jul 15. PubMed PMID: 26179298; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4540902.
- Khosla N, Washington KT, Regunath H. Perspectives of Health Care Providers on US South Asians' Attitudes toward Pain Management at End of Life. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2015 Jun 29. pii: 1049909115593063. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26124469.
- Regunath H, Ariyamuthu VK, Dalal P, Misra M. Bath salt intoxication causing acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis. Hemodial Int. 2012 Oct;16 Suppl 1:S47-9.
- Regunath H, Shivakumar BM, Kurien A, Satyamoorthy K, Pai CG. Anthropometric measurements of nutritional status in chronic pancreatitis in India: comparison of tropical and alcoholic pancreatitis. Indian J Gastroenterol. 2011. Mar; 30(2):78-83.
- Regunath H, Pai G. Under-nutrition in tropical pancreatitis: cause or effect? Gastroenterology 2009 May;136: A-388.
- Regunath H, Shivasankara KN, Sundeep KB, Bhaskar AP. Reactivation of Herpes Zoster in an adult with plasmodium infection. Journal of Vector Borne Diseases. 2008 Sep; 7(3): 251-253.
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