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Paul Kunnath, M.D.

Associate professor, Section of Ambulatory Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine

Courses Taught

MED-101: Clinical Interviewing; IM-451: Ambulatory Medicine; IM-452: Advanced Art and Practice of Medicine

Education

Residency
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital (2019)

Internship
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital (2017)

Medical School
Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2016)

M.S., Anatomy and Physiology
Saint Louis University (2016)

B.S., Biomedical Engineering/music minor
Washington University in St. Louis (2009)

Practice Areas

  • General Internal Medicine

Research Interests

  • Medical education
  • Clinical reasoning
  • Value-based medicine

Publications and Media Placements

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Primary Literature

Kisley Z, Kalishman AJ, Memon AA, Dhindsa SS, Edwards JC, Mosman A, Lentine KL, Kunnath P, Wood E, Miyata KN. Association between caffeine and the eGFR dip after initiation of SGLT2 inhibitors in adult patients. Physiol Rep. 2025 Nov;13(21) PMID: 41146468

Karunanandaa K, Ford S, Isbell TS, Kunnath P. Orbital and Paraspinal Plasmacytomas with Pseudohyponatremia in Multiple Myeloma: A Case Report. SN Compr Clin Med. 2025;7(1):140.

Fan D, Ahmad A, Frisby J, Darji K, Ojeaga A, Behshad R, Hurley MY, Abate M, Kunnath P. “Classical Presentation of Disseminated Blastomycosis in a 44-Year-Old Healthy Man 3 Months After Diagnosis of COVID-19.” The American journal of case reports, 2023 vol. 24 e938659 PMID: 37085974

Rawal R, Adeyemo O, Kunnath P, Vartanyan A, Saad H, Lane A, Schuelke M, Sue Y, Drummond J, Schmidt JM. Empowering medicine residents to order labs mindfully to improve patient-centered care. J Hosp Med, 2023;10.1002 PMID: 36975191

Fitzgerald JJD., Kunnath P, Walker  AV. “Matrix-Enhanced Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquid Matrices,” Analytical Chemistry, 2010 82(11), 4413-4419 PMID: 20462181


Electronic Media

Kunnath P. “Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education”. CEDAR Community Blog. September 2024. Available at: https://www.slu.edu/medicine/about/faculty-resources/cedar/posts/artificial-intelligence.php

Kunnath P, Cumming J, Rawal R. “Medical Education On The Go: Podcasting 101”. Future Hospitalist Roundup - Society of Hospital Medicine. October 2019. Available at: https://connect.hospitalmedicine.org/blogs/116/44

Honors and Awards

  • National Poster Competition Winner, Clinical Vignettes: "Pseudohyponatremia in the Setting of an Unusual Presentation of Multiple Myeloma" - American College of Physicians (2025)
  • Early Career Physician Award, Missouri ACP (2024)
  • First Place, Missouri Regional Meeting, Vignette Category: "Pseudohyponatremia in the Setting of an Unusual Presentaiton of Multiple Myeloma" - American College of Physicians (2024)
  • Top Doctors, Internal Medicine, St. Louis Magazine (2023-2025)
  • Outstanding Small Group Facilitator - Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2023)
  • Fellowship, American College of Physicians (2023)
  • Top Five Instructors, 21-22 M2 Curriculum - Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2022)
  • First Place, Missouri Regional Meeting, QI/PS Category: "The Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: State of Continuity within SLU GIM Ambulatory Care Educational Practice" - American College of Physicians (2022)
  • First Place, Primary Care Research Symposium, QI Category: "The Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: State of Continuity within SLU GIM Ambulatory Care Education Practice" - Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2022)
  • First Place, Annual Meeting, Abstract Category: "Building a High Value Program to Improve Quality and Affordability of Care Delivery" - High Value Practice Academic Alliance (2019)
  • Best Senior Resident Lecture: "Uncertainty or: How I learned to State Worrying. Probability in Medicine" - Saint Louis University Internal Medicine Residency Program (2019)
  • American College of Physicians Young Achiever (2019)
  • Third Place, Annual Meeting, Abstract Category: Improving Appropriateness of Diagnostic or Screening Criteria, High Value Practice Academic Alliance (2018)
  • Family Medicine Summer Preceptorship Program (2013)
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis (2008)

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (2019-present)
  • Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (2018-2020)
  • Society of Hospital Medicine (2018-2020)
  • Society of General Internal Medicine (2017-present)
  • American College of Physicians (2012-present)

Community Work and Service

  • Board member, Central Christian School (8/2025-present)
  • Board member, Restore St. Louis Health Connection (2021-present)