Punkaj Gupta, MD

Punkaj Gupta, MD, is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at AdventHealth for Children. After receiving his medical degree in India, Dr. Gupta went on to complete a pediatrics residency at Miami Children’s Hospital, followed by a pediatric critical care fellowship at Harvard Medical School and a cardiac critical care fellowship at Stanford University.

Dr. Gupta is a multifaceted, experienced, driven & forward thinking clinician, physician leader and physician scientist with focus on team building, transparency, accountability, quality, outcomes & family centered patient care. Dr. Gupta’s extensive body of quality improvement research focuses on resource allocation and value-based medicine in the intensive care unit and his work has had a significant impact on how patients in those units are cared for. For Dr. Gupta, meeting a new family means knowing the “nuts and bolts” of the baby’s or child’s condition, reaching consensus on the treatment plan with the cardiothoracic surgeon and cardiologist and ensuring he always presents a calm and reassuring demeanor.

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