Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS
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Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Medicine
Health Services Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Health Services Researcher and Core Investigator
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Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt)
Houston, Texas United States
- Staff Physician
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Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center
Houston, Texas United States
Education
- MD from Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
- MS from University of California, San Francisco
- San Francisco, California United States
- Clinical Research
- Residency at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
- Fellowship at University of California, San Francisco
- San Francisco, California United States
- Pulmonary and Critical Care
- Fellowship at University of California, San Francisco
- San Francisco, California United States
- Interstitial Lung Disease
Honors & Awards
- Congressional Bronze Award for Outstanding Community Service
- U.S. Congress
- Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
- U.S. Albert Schweitzer Program
- Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award
- American Medical Association
- Gold Humanism Award
- Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Academy of Medical Educators
- Baylor College of Medicine
- First Place, Clinical Research
- National Jewish Young Investigators' Forum
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Scholar
- Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation
- National Academy of Medicine Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence
- National Academy of Medicine
- Oscar Auerbach Visiting Scholar
- War Related Illness and Injury Study Center
- Young Physician-Scientist Award
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
Professional Statement
CLINICAL ACTIVITIESDr. Kaul is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She specializes in the care of patients with advanced lung disease. She is a staff physician at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Dr. Kaul's scholarship focuses on using health services and implementation science research methods to inform innovative clinical care delivery redesign. She has a particular interest in improving access to pulmonary fibrosis care for Veterans with a focus on timely ILD diagnosis and subspecialty care engagement. Her current research involves using "big data" generated from clinical encounters to better understand the epidemiology of pulmonary fibrosis among U.S. Veterans, define current barriers and facilitators to care, and develop novel informatics approaches to improve timely access to subspecialty care with the long term goal of improving clinical outcomes for patients with advanced lung disease.
Websites
Videos
Selected Publications
- Kaul B, Lee JS, Glidden DV, Blanc PD, Zhang N, Collard HR, Whooley MA. "Agent Orange Exposure and Risk of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis among U.S. Veterans." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 Sep 15;206(6):750-757. Pubmed PMID: 35559726
- Podolanczuk AJ, Hunninghake GM, Wilson KC, Khor YH, Kheir F, Pang B, Adegunsoye A, Cararie G, Corte TJ, Flanagan J, Gudmundsson G, Hariri LP, Hatabu H, Humphries SM, Kaul B, Kim JS, Konigshoff M, Kropski JA, Lee JS, Luo F, Lynch DA, Martinez FJ, et al. "Approach to the Evaluation and Management of Interstitial Lung Abnormalities: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Statement." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Jul;211(7):1132-1155. Pubmed PMID: 40387336
- Kaul B, Lee JS, Petersen LA, McCulloch C, Rosas IO, Bandi VD, Zhang N, DeDent AM, Collard HR, Whooley MA "Disparities in Antifibrotic Medication Utilization Among Veterans With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis." Chest. 2023 Aug;164(2):441-449. Pubmed PMID: 36801465
- Kaul B, Hynes DM, Hickok A, Smith C, Niederhausen M, Totten AM, Whooley MA, Sarmiento K "Does Community Outsourcing Improve Timeliness of Care for Veterans With Obstructive Sleep Apnea?." Med Care. 2021 Feb 1;59(2):111-117. Pubmed PMID: 33290324
- Kaul B, Lee JS, Zhang N, Vittinghoff E, Sarmiento K, Collard HR, Whooley MA "Epidemiology of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis among U.S. Veterans, 2010-2019." Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Feb;19(2):196-203. Pubmed PMID: 34314645
- Adegunsoye A, Freiheit E, White EN, Kaul B, Newton CA, Oldham JM, Lee CT, Chung J, Garcia N, Ghodrati S, Vij R, Jablonski R, Flaherty KR, Wolters PJ, Garcia CK, Strek ME "Evaluation of Pulmonary Fibrosis Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity in US Adults." JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Mar 1;6(3):e232427. Pubmed PMID: 36897590
- Spagnolo P, Guler SA, Chaudhuri N, Udwadia Z, Sesé L, Kaul B, Enghelmayer JI, Valenzuela C, Malhotra A, Ryerson CJ, Khor YH, Corte TJ, Cottin V "Global epidemiology and burden of interstitial lung disease." Lancet Respir Med. 2025 Aug;13(8):739-755. Pubmed PMID: 40684782
- Shah C, Sanber K, Jacobson R, Kaul B, Tuthill S, Hemmige V, Guy E, Greenberg S "I-PASS Illness Severity Identifies Patients at Risk for Overnight Clinical Deterioration." J Grad Med Educ. 2020 Oct;12(5):578-582. Pubmed PMID: 33149827
- Pilling D, Fan T, Huang D, Kaul B, Gomer RH "Identification of markers that distinguish monocyte-derived fibrocytes from monocytes, macrophages, and fibroblasts." PLoS One. 2009 Oct 16;4(10):e7475. Pubmed PMID: 19834619
- Lu AD, Kaul B, Reichert J, Kilbourne AM, Sarmiento KF, Whooley MA "Implementation Strategies for Frontline Healthcare Professionals: People, Process Mapping, and Problem Solving." J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Feb;36(2):506-510. Pubmed PMID: 32918200
- Kaul B, Petersen LA, Rosas IO, Lee JS, Martinez FJ, Bandi VD, Helmer DA, Wolters PJ, Collard HR, Whooley MA "Interstitial Lung Disease in Veterans: Leveraging Big Data to Bridge Evidence and Practice Gaps." Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Apr;20(4):504-507. Pubmed PMID: 36623290
- Nicosia FM, Kaul B, Totten AM, Silvestrini MC, Williams K, Whooley MA, Sarmiento KF "Leveraging Telehealth to improve access to care: a qualitative evaluation of Veterans' experience with the VA TeleSleep program." BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Jan 21;21(1):77. Pubmed PMID: 33478497
- Kaul B, Petersen LA, Collard HR, Richardson P, Zhang N, Whooley MA, Bhattacharya M "Prognostic Significance of Peripheral Blood Monocyte Count Among a National Cohort of Veterans with Pulmonary Fibrosis." Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Sep 8;23(1):56-62. Pubmed PMID: 40920863
- Bowman WS, Newton CA, Linderholm AL, Neely ML, Pugashetti JV, Kaul B, Vo V, Echt GA, Leon W, Shah RJ, Huang Y, Garcia CK, Wolters PJ, Oldham JM "Proteomic biomarkers of progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease: a multicentre cohort analysis." Lancet Respir Med. 2022 Jun;10(6):593-602. Pubmed PMID: 35063079
- Kaul B, Lee JS, Collard HR, Whooley MA "Reply: Possible Alternate Explanation for Cases of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis." Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Jun;19(6):1078-1079. Pubmed PMID: 35289737
- Guidot DM, Seaman D, Pleasants RA, Boggan JC, Bedoya A, Swaminathan AC, Maciejewski ML, Kaul B, Tighe RM "The Epidemiology of Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema among Mid-Atlantic Veterans." Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Oct;22(10):1493-1503. Pubmed PMID: 40388887
- Rezaei S, Childress A, Kaul B, Rosales KM, Newell A, Rose S "Using Visual Arts Education and Reflective Practice to Increase Empathy and Perspective Taking in Medical Students." MedEdPORTAL. 2023;19:11346. Pubmed PMID: 37745278
- Guidot DM, Seaman D, Pleasants RA, Bedoya A, Tighe RM, Kaul B "Variability in chest radiology interpretation between thoracic and non-thoracic radiologists: Implications for pulmonary fibrosis care." Respir Med. 2024 Nov;234:107824. Pubmed PMID: 39357679
- Kaul B, Cottin V, Collard HR, Valenzuela C "Variability in Global Prevalence of Interstitial Lung Disease." Front Med (Lausanne). 2021;8:751181. Pubmed PMID: 34805219
- Rathi NK, Haque SA, Morales F, Kaul B, Ramirez R, Ovu S, Feng L, Dong W, Price KJ, Ugarte S, Raimondi N, Quintero A, Cardenas YR, Nates JL, LACCTIN and ONCCC-R-NET groups "Variability in triage practices for critically ill cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial." J Crit Care. 2019 Oct;53:18-24. Pubmed PMID: 31174172
- Burns KEA, Moss M, Lorens E, Jose EKA, Martin CM, Viglianti EM, et al. "Wellness and Coping of Physicians Who Worked in ICUs During the Pandemic: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional North American Survey." Crit Care Med. 2022 Dec 1;50(12):1689-1700. Pubmed PMID: 36300945
Funding
- Metformin to Attenuate Progressive Respiratory Decline in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (MAVRIC-IPF) Clinical Trial Award (07/01/2025 - 06/30/2030) Department of Defense
- Role: VA National Lead, Co-Investigator
- Improving Timely Access to Care for Veterans with Pulmonary Fibrosis Detected on Lung Cancer Screening (07/01/2025 - 06/30/2030) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Novel Radiomics Methods for Phenotypic Assessment of Post-Deployment Lung Disease (10/01/2024 - 09/30/2026) Oscar Auerbach Scholar War Related Illness and Injury Study Center
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Novel Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Optimize Care for Veterans with Pulmonary Fibrosis (10/01/2023 - 06/30/2025) Chao Physician Scientist Development Award – Baylor College of Medicine
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Disparities in Antifibrotic Utilization Among U.S Veterans with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (10/01/2021 - 12/31/2024) Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Emerging Investigator Award
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Targeting ATP Receptor P2RX4 for Pulmonary Fibrosis (07/01/2021 - 12/31/2024) Department of Defense
- Role: Sub-Investigator
- Lung Texture Analysis – A Novel Machine Learning Tool to Reduce Diagnostic Delays (07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024) National Academy of Medicine Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Among U.S. Veterans: Leveraging Virtual Care to Bridge the Access Gap (07/01/2021 - 10/20/2022) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) IMPACT K12
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Epidemiology and Risk Factors Associated with Interstitial Lung Disease Among U.S. Veterans (07/01/2021 - 06/30/2022) Nina Ireland Foundation Award for Lung Health
- Role: Principal Investigator
Skills
- Health Services Research
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
- Informatics
- Radiomics
- Leadership in Medicine
- Public Policy
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