Puja B. Gandhi, MD, MPH

Biography

Dr. Puja Gandhi earned her BS in Human Biology and Anthropology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her MPH from UTHealth Houston School of Public Health and her MD from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston in 2018.

She completed her Internal Medicine internship at Loyola University in Chicago, IL, and finished her Internal Medicine residency at McGovern Medical School in 2021. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Gandhi practiced as a primary care physician at Kelsey-Seybold before returning to McGovern Medical School in 2022 to begin a General Medicine Fellowship, where she concurrently became board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Gandhi now serves as Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency program.

Currently, her interests lie in lifestyle medicine as it pertains to chronic disease management and incorporating more public health education in the medical school. She is the Co-director of the Lifestyle Medicine Scholarly Concentration and Faculty Representative of the Academic Health Department alliance with HHD for McGovern Medical School. She is also the clinical director for I-CARE, an interprofessional program that allows students to get hands-on experience with patients using telemedicine. Additionally, as she is passionate about developing future physicians who can encourage lifestyle changes for their patients, promotes preventative care at her clinic sites when precepting Internal Medicine residents, and designs lectures focused on primary care topics. She also is the director of the Primary Care Track for the IM residency program.