Kaya Patel, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Call 800-789-7366
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Fellowship: Temple University Hospital

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Patel is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Kaya Patel, MD, Olivia Duffield, B.S, Sara K Schultz, MD FACP FIDSA, Stephanie Spivack, MD 2-year Follow-up on Patients Who Inject Drugs (PWID) Diagnosed with Infective Endocarditis (IE) , ID Week Los Angeles, CA: 2024

Kaya Patel, MD, Stephanie Spivack, MD, Flora Yan, MD, Noah Thorntan, n/a, Karl Whitley, MD, Ahmed Soliman, MD, Sara K Schultz, MD FACP FIDSA Characterizing Deep Neck Infections (DNI) at a Tertiary Care Center in Philadelphia with a High Population of People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) , ID Week Los Angeles, CA: 2024

Patel K, Nakagami P, Morita K, Gallagher J, Schultz S. Dalbavancin Usage in Patients Who Inject Drugs , ID Week, Boston, MA: 2023

Duffield O, Patel K, Spivack S, Schultz S. Plan PDD (Patient Directed Discharge): Oral Contingency Plans for People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia (SAB) , ID Week, Boston, MA: 2023

Duffield O, Patel K, Spivack S, Schultz S. Improvements in Antibiotic Stewardship for Patients Who Use Injection Drugs: Subgroup analysis of patients with Bacteremia. , ID Week, Boston, MA.: 2023

Patel K, Duffield O, Spivack S, Schultz S. Multidisciplinary Endocarditis Team (MET): Establishing a Baseline of Infective Endocarditis in People Who Use Injection Drugs (PWID) , ID Week, Boston, MA: 2023

Patel K, Nakagami P, Morita K, Gallagher J, Schultz S. Dalbavancin Usage in the Temple Patient Population , Sol Sherry Research Symposium. Philadelphia, PA: 2023

Verghese A, Bharaniabirami R, Karaisz F, Ho J, Patel K, Grodsky, M, Gandhi S, Wang X, & Lev Y. Improving the Utilization of SGLT-2 Inhibitors in the Inpatient Setting. , Thomas Jefferson University Hospital House Staff Quality and Safety Conference Philadelphia, PA: 2022

Qamar Z, Spacek L, Coppock D, Patel K, L’Etoile N, Huang J, Arya A, Flomenberg P. Diagnostic Stewardship of Clostridioides difficile Testing , ID Week, Virtual (Pandemic): 2021

DiMemmo L, Varano A, Haulenbeek J, Liang Y, Patel K, Dukes M, Zheng S, Hubert M, Piccoli S, and Kelly D. Real-Time Observation of Protein Aggregates in Pharmaceutical Formulations Using Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy , Lab on a Chip, 17(2): 2017,315-22