Bio

Amrapali Maitra is a clinician, educator, and scholar with training from Harvard and Stanford as well as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans (2013). Her clinical practice emphasizes humanism and attention to health equity through structural competency. As an educator, she is committed to diversity and inclusion in the learning environment for pre-medical, medical, and graduate medical trainees, as well as centering patients as teachers. Her scholarship focuses on intimate partner violence, trauma-informed care, medical education, and the humanities.

Clinical Focus

  • Internal Medicine

Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans, Soros Foundation (2013)
  • Dunne Award for Humanistic Patient Care in Internship, Brigham and Women's Hospital (2019)
  • Levine Award for Excellence in Research in Health Disparities, Johns Hopkins General Internal Medicine (2019)
  • Public Voices Fellow, The OpEd Project (2024)

Professional Education

  • Fellowship, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Hospital Medicine (2023)
  • Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital Internal Medicine Residency (2021) MA
  • Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine (2021)
  • PhD, Stanford University, Anthropology (2018)
  • Medical Education: Stanford University School of Medicine (2018) CA

Contact

  • Academic
    amaitra@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: Med/Hospital Medicine Position: Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Clinical (Primary)  Hospitalist for Stanford Medical Center 500 Pasteur Dr Stanford, CA 94305 (650) 723-8596 (fax)

Additional Clinical Info

Additional Info

All Publications

  • The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic. Medical anthropology quarterly Maitra, A. 2023; 37 (2): 134-147

    Abstract

    Unspeakability is a dominant analytic lens in scholarship on gendered violence in India, but women can and do speak out. This article examines how Bengali women complain about domestic violence through peter katha, the belly's word. The capacious pet (belly) is the seat of tension, where abuse dwells in the body. At a clinic in Kolkata, India, women describe sensations of abdominal pain, pressure, and hunger to convey patterns and temporalities of violence. Yet complaints of belly pain go unacknowledged by local clinicians. Hygiene discourses frame poor women's bodies, not structural violence, as the problem. Peter katha is more than an idiom of distress: it is a genre of embodied complaint that illuminates violence as the accrual of harm and, in its dynamic and layered quality, moves beyond a binary of disclosure or concealment. Anthropologists may use peter katha to extend the conceptual vocabulary of gender and silence. [domestic violence, kinship, complaint, hygiene, belly, India].

    View details for DOI 10.1111/maq.12759

    View details for PubMedID 36989382

  • A scoping review of intimate partner violence in hospitalized patients JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE Maitra, A., Schnipper, J. L., Bain, P. A., Mueller, S. K. 2023; 18 (8): 736-744

    Abstract

    Despite the high prevalence and significant health effects of intimate partner violence (IPV), little is known about its associations with hospitalization.To perform a scoping review of how IPV impacts hospitalization rates, characteristics, and outcomes in adult patients.A search of four databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, and CINAHL) using a combination of terms including hospitalized patients and IPV revealed 1608 citations.One reviewer determined eligibility based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, which a second reviewer independently verified. Data were extracted and organized a posteriori into three categories based on research aim: (1) comparative studies of hospitalization risk associated with recent IPV exposure, (2) comparative studies of hospitalization outcomes by IPV exposure, and (3) descriptive studies of hospitalizations for IPV.Of the 12 included studies, 7 were comparative studies of hospitalization risk associated with IPV, 2 were comparative studies of hospitalization outcomes by IPV, and 3 were descriptive studies of hospitalizations for IPV. Nine out of 12 studies focused on specific patient populations. All but one study demonstrated that IPV was associated with increased risk of hospitalization and/or worse hospitalization outcomes. Six of the seven comparative studies showed a positive association between recent IPV and hospitalization risk.This review suggests that IPV exposure increases the risk of hospitalization and/or worsens inpatient outcomes in specific patient populations. Additional work is needed to characterize hospitalization rates and outcomes for persons who have experienced IPV in a broader, nontrauma population.

    View details for DOI 10.1002/jhm.13094

    View details for Web of Science ID 000961591200001

    View details for PubMedID 36999751

  • RARE NEUROLOGIC PRESENTATION OF HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME: IMPLICATIONS OF ECULIZUMAB THERAPY Venkataramani, R., Maitra, A., Hennessey, E., Rizvi, A. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. 2018: 258

    View details for DOI 10.1097/01.ccm.0000528564.25477.5c

    View details for Web of Science ID 000436794300510

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