Anita Gupta, MD

Anita Gupta, MD, is a senior pediatric surgical pathologist who completed her residency in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at Northwestern and Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and her peds path fellowship at The Denver Children’s Hospital. Subsequently, she joined the pathology team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and moved up the ranks from Assistant Professor to Full Professor in 14+ years of service, education, leadership, and research. Dr. Gupta then joined Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago as staff pediatric pathologist and Full Professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Her areas of expertise included vascular anomalies, liver tumors and their biology, liver vascular anomalies, ciliopathy/EM, developmental gastrointestinal developmental anomalies/disorders including ARM/Cloaca/Dysmotility, and cardiac transplant and cardiomyopathy biopsies/EM.

Dr. Gupta’s research interests and focus are primarily engaged in clinical-translational research and tumor development biology related to vascular anomalies and GI/liver disorders/tumors. She is co-investigator on a handful of grants/subawards and productive collaborator across multiple disciplinaries and multi-institutions. In addition, she is a member of the Children’s Oncology Group, USCAP, SPP, CAP, ISSVA, API, AIPNA, and more. Dr. Gupta has authored 75+ peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters including multiple chapters of the WHO 5th edition Classification of Pediatric Tumors. Recognized for her expertise in these areas, she has guest lectured (45+) at many national and international conferences around the world.

Dr. Gupta's specialties include cilia pathology, GI/liver developmental, non-neoplastic, pediatric pathology, perinatal pathology, tumor pathology and vascular anomalies.