Dr. Anita Gupta, DO

Dr. Anita Gupta is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist, Pain Specialist, Pharmacist & Editor. She is an awarding winning physician from AAMC and is currently Vice Chair, Associate Professor and Director at Drexel College of Medicine in the Division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a special government employee of the FDA on the Anesthetic and Analgesic Committee. She is a founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School. She has completed the Wharton Total Leadership Program, an active member of the World Health Organization, founder of Society of Women in Medicine, and has been featured as a medical expert on CNN, Fox News Channel, and NBC for health topics related to treating pain. She has been a continuous recipient of the National Patients and Compassionate Physician Choice Award from 2010 to 2012, and author of top selling textbooks by Oxford University Press, Interventional Pain Medicine and …Pharmacology in Anesthesia Practice. She also completed the competitive media and medical advocacy fellowship with the Mayday Foundation in Washington DC.

Well spoken in a variety of health topics, Dr. Gupta is called upon regularly to discuss current medical issues and new treatments for pain. Dr. Gupta's research and advocacy contributions have earned her countless awards for service, research and expertise in medicine and health. She has been an invited presenter at medical and advisory forums and won several research awards related to her research. As a medical expert and national leader in medicine, Dr. Gupta has been involved in research in improving patient satisfaction in medicine, anesthesiology, pain management, pharmacotherapy, and personalized genetic testing.