Teja Mahadeshwar Kapoor, MD

Teja Kapoor, MD is a graduate of New York Medical College and completed her internal medicine residency at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. She completed her Rheumatology fellowship at Columbia-NY Presbyterian, before joining full-time academic faculty. Dr. Kapoor is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Program Director for the Columbia Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program.
Dr. Kapoor has clinical and research interests in Sjogren’s Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), with years of experience in managing patients with complex multi-organ involvement of their autoimmune disease. She has an interdisciplinary approach to managing her large cohort of patients with Sjogren’s Syndrome, working with Ophthalmology, Dental, ENT, Pulmonary, OB-GYN, and other specialists. She has lectured on SLE and Sjogren’s Disease at regional, national, and international conferences, with a multitude of book chapters and peer-reviewed article publications on the topics of autoimmune diseases.
She is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Daniel V. Kimberg Memorial Junior Faculty Award for outstanding teaching of fellows, residents, and medical students. She is the Course Co-Director for Rheumatology and Autoimmunity for medical students at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.