Samir Gautam, MD/PhD
Pulmonary Critical Care , Asthma
Titles
- Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
Education & Training
- Clinical FellowYale School of Medicine (2021)
- ABIM PSTP ResidentYale School of Medicine (2017)
- MD/PhDYale School of Medicine, Cell Biology (2015)
- BSBoston College, Biology; Music (2006)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- O'Brien Center Pilot Award: George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale (2022)
- K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award: NIH/NHLBI (2022)
- FRCS at Yale Award: Doris Duke and YCCI (2022)
- Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award: Robert Leet Patterson and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust (2021)
- Parker B. Francis Fellowship (career development award): Parker B. Francis Foundation (2021)
- YCCI Scholar Award (KL-2 career development award): Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (2021), (2022)
- Janeway Society Member: Janeway Society for Junior Faculty at Yale (2021)
- Finalist: Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigators’ Forum (2020)
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Fellowship: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (2020), (2022)
- F32 Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award: NIH/NHLBI (2020)
Board Certifications
- AB of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease (2022)
- AB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2020)
Professional Service
- Contemporary Pediatrics Journal (2023 - Present): Author
- Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2022 - 2023): Reviewer
- Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2022): Ad hoc
- American Thoracic Society, Pulmonary Infection Network of Experts (2021): Invited lecture on COVID-19 pathothogenesis
- European Respiratory Journal (2021): Ad hoc
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (2020): Ad hoc
Publications
- Gautam S, Chu J, Cohen A, Kaur R, Lee S, Wilson G, Liu Q, Gomez J, Rajaveen H, Yan X, Cohn L, Clark B, Chupp G. Sputum alarmins delineate distinct T2 cytokine pathways and unique subtypes of patients with asthma. Allergy 2023, 78: 3274-3277. PMID: 37874609, PMCID: PMC10842366, DOI: 10.1111/all.15915.
- Liu Y, Rajeevan H, Simonov M, Lee S, Wilson F, Desir G, Vinetz J, Yan X, Wang Z, Clark B, Possick J, Price C, Lutchmansingh D, Ortega H, Zaeh S, Gomez J, Cohn L, Gautam S, Chupp G. Differences in Mortality Among Patients With Asthma and COPD Hospitalized With COVID-19. The Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology In Practice 2023, 11: 3383-3390.e3. PMID: 37454926, PMCID: PMC10787810, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2023.07.006.
- Cohen A, Glick L, Lee S, Kunitomo Y, Tsang D, Pitafi S, Toro P, Ristic N, Zhang E, Carey G, Datta R, Dela Cruz C, Gautam S. Nonutility of procalcitonin for diagnosing bacterial pneumonia in patients with severe COVID-19. European Clinical Respiratory Journal 2023, 10: 2174640. PMID: 36815942, PMCID: PMC9930745, DOI: 10.1080/20018525.2023.2174640.
- Gautam S, Cohen AJ, Stahl Y, Toro P, Young GM, Datta R, Yan X, Ristic NT, Bermejo SD, Sharma L, Restrepo M, Dela Cruz CS. Severe respiratory viral infection induces procalcitonin in the absence of bacterial pneumonia. Thorax 2020, 75: 974-981. PMID: 32826284, DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214896.
- Gautam S, Stahl Y, Young GM, Howell R, Cohen AJ, Tsang DA, Martin T, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Quantification of bronchoalveolar neutrophil extracellular traps and phagocytosis in murine pneumonia. American Journal Of Physiology - Lung Cellular And Molecular Physiology 2020, 319: l661-l669. PMID: 32783617, PMCID: PMC7642899, DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00316.2020.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Shoda T, Sen S, Deep D, Luthra R, Ferreira M, Pinho M, Spiegel D. An Activity‐Based Probe for Studying Crosslinking in Live Bacteria. Angewandte Chemie 2015, 127: 10638-10642. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503869.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Spiegel DA. Chemical Probes Reveal an Extraseptal Mode of Cross-Linking in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 2015, 137: 7441-7447. PMID: 26035224, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02972.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Lester E, Deep D, Spiegel DA. Wall teichoic acids prevent antibody binding to epitopes within the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. ACS Chemical Biology 2015, 11: 25-30. PMID: 26502318, PMCID: PMC5592732, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00439.
- Allen C, Gautam S, Cheng W, Pine A, Podoltsev N, Zeidan A, Lee A, Shallis R. Impact of Prophylactic Antibacterials on Coagulation Profiles and Bleeding in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Acta Haematologica 2023, 146: 287-292. PMID: 37166332, DOI: 10.1159/000530153.
- Sun Y, Hu B, Stanley G, Harris ZM, Gautam S, Homer R, Koff JL, Rajagopalan G. IFN-γ Is Protective in Cytokine Release Syndrome-associated Extrapulmonary Acute Lung Injury. American Journal Of Respiratory Cell And Molecular Biology 2023, 68: 75-89. PMID: 36125351, PMCID: PMC9817908, DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0117oc.
- Lee S, O’Donovan L, Cohen A, Gautam S, Quagliarello V, Juthani-Mehta M, Datta R. Prevalence and treatment of postobstructive pneumonia among older adults with advanced cancer. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 2022, 2: e152. PMID: 36483405, PMCID: PMC9726473, DOI: 10.1017/ash.2022.293.
- Dela Cruz CS, Evans SE, Restrepo MI, Dean N, Torres A, Amara-Elori I, Awasthi S, Caler E, Cao B, Chalmers JD, Chastre J, Cohen TS, Cohen AH, Crothers K, Di YP, Egan ME, Feldman C, Gautam S, Halstead ES, Herold S, Jones BE, Luna C, Niederman MS, Mendez R, Menendez R, Mizgerd JP, Nusrat R, Ramirez J, Shindo Y, Waterer G, Yeligar SM, Wunderink RG. Understanding the Host in the Management of Pneumonia. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Annals Of The American Thoracic Society 2021, 18: 1087-1097. PMID: 34242148, PMCID: PMC8328365, DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.202102-209st.
- Kunitomo Y, Young G, Datta R, Korn LL, Tanoue L, Gautam S. A 62-Year-Old Woman With Lung Cancer, Ulcerating Rash, and Rapidly Progressive Hypoxemia. CHEST Journal 2020, 158: e191-e196. PMID: 33036118, PMCID: PMC7533682, DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.06.020.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Howell R, Spiegel DA. Fluorescent stem peptide mimics: In situ probes for peptidoglycan crosslinking. Methods In Enzymology 2020, 638: 57-67. PMID: 32416921, DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2020.02.016.
- Amick A, Liu Q, Gautam S, Chupp G, Dela Cruz C, Sharma L. Measurement of Chitinase Activity in Biological Samples. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2019 DOI: 10.3791/60159-v.
- Gautam S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Teaching an Old Intensivist Neutrophil Tricks: Using Alveolar Neutrophilia to Diagnose Ventilator-associated Pneumonia. American Journal Of Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine 2019, 199: 1178-1181. PMID: 30543457, PMCID: PMC6519853, DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201811-2163ed.
- Gautam S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Personalizing the Management of Pneumonia. Clinics In Chest Medicine 2018, 39: 871-900. PMID: 30390755, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2018.08.008.
- Gautam S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS, Spiegel DA. A Slick Solution to a Sticky Problem. Biochemistry 2018, 57: 5923-5924. PMID: 30289246, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00916.
- Pushing the bacterial envelope: Strategies for re-engineering bacterial surfaces with heterologous proteins and sugars.Gautam S, Spiegel DA. Zhao, W. & Karp, J. (Eds.). 2014. Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
- Gautam S, Gniadek TJ, Kim T, Spiegel DA. Exterior design: strategies for redecorating the bacterial surface with small molecules. Trends In Biotechnology 2013, 31: 258-267. PMID: 23490213, PMCID: PMC3641905, DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2013.01.012.
- Kruglov EA, Gautam S, Guerra MT, Nathanson MH. Type 2 inositol 1,4,5‐trisphosphate receptor modulates bile salt export pump activity in rat hepatocytes. Hepatology 2011, 54: 1790-1799. PMID: 21748767, PMCID: PMC3205211, DOI: 10.1002/hep.24548.
- Cai S, Gautam S, Nguyen T, Soroka CJ, Rahner C, Boyer JL. ATP8B1 Deficiency Disrupts the Bile Canalicular Membrane Bilayer Structure in Hepatocytes, But FXR Expression and Activity Are Maintained. Gastroenterology 2008, 136: 1060-1069.e4. PMID: 19027009, PMCID: PMC3439851, DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.10.025.
Departments and Programs
Titles
- Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
Education & Training
- Clinical FellowYale School of Medicine (2021)
- ABIM PSTP ResidentYale School of Medicine (2017)
- MD/PhDYale School of Medicine, Cell Biology (2015)
- BSBoston College, Biology; Music (2006)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- O'Brien Center Pilot Award: George M. O’Brien Kidney Center at Yale (2022)
- K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award: NIH/NHLBI (2022)
- FRCS at Yale Award: Doris Duke and YCCI (2022)
- Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award: Robert Leet Patterson and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust (2021)
- Parker B. Francis Fellowship (career development award): Parker B. Francis Foundation (2021)
- YCCI Scholar Award (KL-2 career development award): Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (2021), (2022)
- Janeway Society Member: Janeway Society for Junior Faculty at Yale (2021)
- Finalist: Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigators’ Forum (2020)
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Fellowship: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (2020), (2022)
- F32 Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award: NIH/NHLBI (2020)
Board Certifications
- AB of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease (2022)
- AB of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2020)
Professional Service
- Contemporary Pediatrics Journal (2023 - Present): Author
- Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2022 - 2023): Reviewer
- Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2022): Ad hoc
- American Thoracic Society, Pulmonary Infection Network of Experts (2021): Invited lecture on COVID-19 pathothogenesis
- European Respiratory Journal (2021): Ad hoc
- American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (2020): Ad hoc
Publications
- Gautam S, Chu J, Cohen A, Kaur R, Lee S, Wilson G, Liu Q, Gomez J, Rajaveen H, Yan X, Cohn L, Clark B, Chupp G. Sputum alarmins delineate distinct T2 cytokine pathways and unique subtypes of patients with asthma. Allergy 2023, 78: 3274-3277. PMID: 37874609, PMCID: PMC10842366, DOI: 10.1111/all.15915.
- Liu Y, Rajeevan H, Simonov M, Lee S, Wilson F, Desir G, Vinetz J, Yan X, Wang Z, Clark B, Possick J, Price C, Lutchmansingh D, Ortega H, Zaeh S, Gomez J, Cohn L, Gautam S, Chupp G. Differences in Mortality Among Patients With Asthma and COPD Hospitalized With COVID-19. The Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology In Practice 2023, 11: 3383-3390.e3. PMID: 37454926, PMCID: PMC10787810, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2023.07.006.
- Cohen A, Glick L, Lee S, Kunitomo Y, Tsang D, Pitafi S, Toro P, Ristic N, Zhang E, Carey G, Datta R, Dela Cruz C, Gautam S. Nonutility of procalcitonin for diagnosing bacterial pneumonia in patients with severe COVID-19. European Clinical Respiratory Journal 2023, 10: 2174640. PMID: 36815942, PMCID: PMC9930745, DOI: 10.1080/20018525.2023.2174640.
- Gautam S, Cohen AJ, Stahl Y, Toro P, Young GM, Datta R, Yan X, Ristic NT, Bermejo SD, Sharma L, Restrepo M, Dela Cruz CS. Severe respiratory viral infection induces procalcitonin in the absence of bacterial pneumonia. Thorax 2020, 75: 974-981. PMID: 32826284, DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214896.
- Gautam S, Stahl Y, Young GM, Howell R, Cohen AJ, Tsang DA, Martin T, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Quantification of bronchoalveolar neutrophil extracellular traps and phagocytosis in murine pneumonia. American Journal Of Physiology - Lung Cellular And Molecular Physiology 2020, 319: l661-l669. PMID: 32783617, PMCID: PMC7642899, DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00316.2020.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Shoda T, Sen S, Deep D, Luthra R, Ferreira M, Pinho M, Spiegel D. An Activity‐Based Probe for Studying Crosslinking in Live Bacteria. Angewandte Chemie 2015, 127: 10638-10642. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503869.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Spiegel DA. Chemical Probes Reveal an Extraseptal Mode of Cross-Linking in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 2015, 137: 7441-7447. PMID: 26035224, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02972.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Lester E, Deep D, Spiegel DA. Wall teichoic acids prevent antibody binding to epitopes within the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. ACS Chemical Biology 2015, 11: 25-30. PMID: 26502318, PMCID: PMC5592732, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00439.
- Allen C, Gautam S, Cheng W, Pine A, Podoltsev N, Zeidan A, Lee A, Shallis R. Impact of Prophylactic Antibacterials on Coagulation Profiles and Bleeding in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Acta Haematologica 2023, 146: 287-292. PMID: 37166332, DOI: 10.1159/000530153.
- Sun Y, Hu B, Stanley G, Harris ZM, Gautam S, Homer R, Koff JL, Rajagopalan G. IFN-γ Is Protective in Cytokine Release Syndrome-associated Extrapulmonary Acute Lung Injury. American Journal Of Respiratory Cell And Molecular Biology 2023, 68: 75-89. PMID: 36125351, PMCID: PMC9817908, DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0117oc.
- Lee S, O’Donovan L, Cohen A, Gautam S, Quagliarello V, Juthani-Mehta M, Datta R. Prevalence and treatment of postobstructive pneumonia among older adults with advanced cancer. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 2022, 2: e152. PMID: 36483405, PMCID: PMC9726473, DOI: 10.1017/ash.2022.293.
- Dela Cruz CS, Evans SE, Restrepo MI, Dean N, Torres A, Amara-Elori I, Awasthi S, Caler E, Cao B, Chalmers JD, Chastre J, Cohen TS, Cohen AH, Crothers K, Di YP, Egan ME, Feldman C, Gautam S, Halstead ES, Herold S, Jones BE, Luna C, Niederman MS, Mendez R, Menendez R, Mizgerd JP, Nusrat R, Ramirez J, Shindo Y, Waterer G, Yeligar SM, Wunderink RG. Understanding the Host in the Management of Pneumonia. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Annals Of The American Thoracic Society 2021, 18: 1087-1097. PMID: 34242148, PMCID: PMC8328365, DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.202102-209st.
- Kunitomo Y, Young G, Datta R, Korn LL, Tanoue L, Gautam S. A 62-Year-Old Woman With Lung Cancer, Ulcerating Rash, and Rapidly Progressive Hypoxemia. CHEST Journal 2020, 158: e191-e196. PMID: 33036118, PMCID: PMC7533682, DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.06.020.
- Gautam S, Kim T, Howell R, Spiegel DA. Fluorescent stem peptide mimics: In situ probes for peptidoglycan crosslinking. Methods In Enzymology 2020, 638: 57-67. PMID: 32416921, DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2020.02.016.
- Amick A, Liu Q, Gautam S, Chupp G, Dela Cruz C, Sharma L. Measurement of Chitinase Activity in Biological Samples. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2019 DOI: 10.3791/60159-v.
- Gautam S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Teaching an Old Intensivist Neutrophil Tricks: Using Alveolar Neutrophilia to Diagnose Ventilator-associated Pneumonia. American Journal Of Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine 2019, 199: 1178-1181. PMID: 30543457, PMCID: PMC6519853, DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201811-2163ed.
- Gautam S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Personalizing the Management of Pneumonia. Clinics In Chest Medicine 2018, 39: 871-900. PMID: 30390755, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2018.08.008.
- Gautam S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS, Spiegel DA. A Slick Solution to a Sticky Problem. Biochemistry 2018, 57: 5923-5924. PMID: 30289246, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00916.
- Pushing the bacterial envelope: Strategies for re-engineering bacterial surfaces with heterologous proteins and sugars.Gautam S, Spiegel DA. Zhao, W. & Karp, J. (Eds.). 2014. Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
- Gautam S, Gniadek TJ, Kim T, Spiegel DA. Exterior design: strategies for redecorating the bacterial surface with small molecules. Trends In Biotechnology 2013, 31: 258-267. PMID: 23490213, PMCID: PMC3641905, DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2013.01.012.
- Kruglov EA, Gautam S, Guerra MT, Nathanson MH. Type 2 inositol 1,4,5‐trisphosphate receptor modulates bile salt export pump activity in rat hepatocytes. Hepatology 2011, 54: 1790-1799. PMID: 21748767, PMCID: PMC3205211, DOI: 10.1002/hep.24548.
- Cai S, Gautam S, Nguyen T, Soroka CJ, Rahner C, Boyer JL. ATP8B1 Deficiency Disrupts the Bile Canalicular Membrane Bilayer Structure in Hepatocytes, But FXR Expression and Activity Are Maintained. Gastroenterology 2008, 136: 1060-1069.e4. PMID: 19027009, PMCID: PMC3439851, DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.10.025.
Departments and Programs