Sapna Mehta, MD is the Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases and the Clinical Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Mehta received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 2003 where she also completed her Internal Medicine residency. She completed her infectious diseases fellowship at NYU in 2009. Her clinical experience in HIV medicine has included HIV primary care, implementation of HIV care protocols under an NYU partner PEPFAR site in Kenya, and over the last decade providing care for transplant patients with HIV infection. Dr. Mehta has a particular interest in improving awareness around transplant options for people living with HIV in the New York region. She is NYU’s site investigator for the multi-center HOPE clinical trials through which HIV positive transplant recipients can receive organs from HIV positive donors. Dr. Mehta has also developed NYU’s living kidney donor program for HIV-positive donors. She is currently the Chair of the HIV Working Group of the American Society of Transplantation's Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.
