Anita Gupta *18

Anita Gupta is a board certified anesthesiologist, pain specialist and pharmacologist who has worked in healthcare for the last 20 years. She received the Learner Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges in Washington D.C., and has been a FDA Advisor. She is the founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School and trained at the Wharton Total Leadership Program. She has also been a working group member of the GIEESC/World Health Organization member and has been featured as a medical expert on CNN, Fox News in Forbes, and many others. She has been the recipient of the Patients Choice and Compassionate Physician Award and author of internationally selling textbooks by Oxford University Press, “Interventional Pain Medicine” and “Pharmacology in Anesthesia Practice” and “50 Studies Every Anesthesiologist Should Know.” She completed the public advocacy fellowship with the Mayday Foundation and has been called upon to discuss high profile medical topics involving Tiger Woods, Bill Cosby, Angelina Jolie and Prince. Gupta’s contributions have earned her recognition for community service, research and pain medicine expertise. She completed her Doctorate in Pharmacy at Rutgers and her medical degree from UMDNJ and her residency in anesthesiology at Georgetown University and clinical scientist training at National Institutes of Health. Following residency, Gupta completed a pain fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.