- APID
- 5686
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-0119-4711
- Google Scholar
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aq5Q4MEAAAAJ&hl=en
- Location
- ANSARI NAGAR, DELHI, INDIA
- Expertise
- Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Obesity & Metabolic Disease
- Areas of interest
- Communicable & Non Combinable like Obesity & Metabolic Disease, Infectious Diseases, Public Health & Epidemiology and critical care
- Member since
- January 2024
Biography
Dr. Upendra Baitha has been involved for the past 15 years in patient care, teaching & research at various tertiary care centres after his MD (Medicine) degree. He joined as a SR in 2011; currently he is working as Additional Professor in the Dept. of Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi. He is serving the patient care in IPD & OPDs, Special Clinics & Emergency services as well. He served immensely in management, care & support of COVID 19 patients during the pandemic and contributed to making of National Guideline as an Expert member of National guidelines of Dengue Case Management during COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, National guideline of Clinical Management of Dengue Fever,2023 and National guideline of Clinical Management of Chikungunia Fever, 2023. He has also been involved in UG, PG and DM academic courses & Teaching activities. The six PG students completed their thesis and four are doing under his direct guidance. He is doing research in field of Infectious Diseases and Metabolic & Obesity Disorders. He has completed three extramural projects as PI and two projects funded by ICMR & DHR are currently on-going. He has more than 70 publications in various journals and 4 chapters in the books. He served in various medical camps, writing article in magazine and Newspaper in different electronic media as part of community service. He is member of various Professional Societies. He has attended many conferences and presented oral and poster research paper.
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- Baitha U, Deb KS, Ranjan P, et al. Estimated prevalence of medically unexplained physical symptoms in the medicine outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital in India. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2019;61:47-52.
- Baitha U, Halkur Shankar S, Kodan P, Singla P, Ahuja J, Agarwal S, Gupta A, Jorwal P, Soneja M, Ranjan P, Kumar A, Baruah K, Biswas A. Leucocytosis and early organ involvement as risk factors of mortality in adults with dengue fever. Drug DiscovTher. 2021 Jan 23;14(6):313-318. doi: 10.5582/ddt.2020.03089. Epub 2020 Dec 27. PMID: 33390410
- Baitha U, Ranjan P, Deb KS, Bauddh NK, Singh V, Kaloiya G, Kumar A, Sahu A. Association of Somatic Symptom Severity With Sociodemographic Parameters In Patients With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study From a Tertiary Care Center in India. Cureus:2020 Jul 17;12(7):e9250. doi: 10.7759/cureus.9250. PMID: 32821596; PMCID: PMC7430686
- Baitha U, Ranjan P, Sarkar S, et al. Development of a self-assessment tool for resident doctors’ communication skills in India. J EducEval Health Prof:2019;16:17. doi:10.3352/jeehp.2019.16.17
- S S Kumar, P Kumar, S Sriram, U Baitha. Diffuse large B cell lymphoma presenting with hypersomnia. Authorea Preprints, 2023. DOI:10.22541/au.169346528.84226739/v1. Correspondence to : Dr Upendra Baitha, Additional Professor, Department of General Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India – 110029
- Walia D, Arora U, Baitha U, Kumar A, Ranjan P, Soneja M, Verma N, Khan MA, Aggarwal P, Biswas A, Wig N. Clinical spectrum and predictors of severe Plasmodium vivax infections at a tertiary care center in North India. Drug DiscovTher. 2021 Jan 23;14(6):330-335. doi: 10.5582/ddt.2020.03110. Epub 2020 Dec 31. PMID: 33390562