Biography

Malika Gupta, M.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in pediatric allergy and immunology at Children's Health℠.

Dr. Gupta began her career in Allergy and Immunology through research in food allergies and asthma at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She completed her pediatric residency at Sinai’s Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, followed by a clinical fellowship in allergy and immunology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She subsequently served as a clinical faculty member at the Mount Sinai Jaffe Food Allergy Institute in New York and at the University of Michigan, where she specialized in the care of children with a broad range of allergic conditions, with a primary focus on food allergies.

In 2023, Dr. Gupta joined UT Southwestern and Children’s Health as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She currently directs the Food Immunotherapy Program at Children’s Health, which offers immunotherapy options to children with IgE-mediated food allergies. In addition to her clinical work, she remains actively involved in food allergy research, with particular expertise in food protein–induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES).

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