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Specialty : Liver Transplant
City : Delhi
Hospital : Max Healthcare
Degree(s) : MBBS, MS (General Surgery), FRCS (Edin & Glas)
Other Degree(s) : Gold Medal from the Delhi Medical Association (2005) Rotary Club’s “Excellence in Clinical Medicine” Award (2011) The “Vishist Chikitsak Rattan” award (2012) He also has honorary professor appointments and recognitions, both in India and internationally.
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Prof Gupta hails originally from the town of Asansol in West Bengal, India. He attended St Patrick’s School in Asansol during his early years. For his medical training, he joined the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, where he completed his MBBS and subsequently an MS in General Surgery.
Following his general surgical training, Prof Gupta moved abroad for specialised fellowships. Between ~1993-1995 he trained at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, UK, and subsequently (1995-1998) at the St James’s University Hospital Leeds, UK, where he deepened his expertise in hepatobiliary-pancreatic (HPB) surgery and liver transplantation.
He qualified for the Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow during his UK tenure.
Thus, his educational foundation combined high-quality general surgery training in India with advanced specialised exposure and research orientation in the UK, priming him for pioneering work in liver transplant and HPB surgery in India.
On returning to India around 1998, Prof Gupta took up a consultant position in liver transplantation and GI (gastrointestinal) surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi. Under his leadership the liver transplant programme at the hospital developed robustly, building one of India’s early comprehensive liver-transplant units.
Later, he moved to other major institutions including the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi before joining the Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, Delhi (in January 2017) as Chairman of the Centre for Liver & Biliary Sciences (CLBS).
Under his stewardship, the CLBS has become one of the busiest liver-transplant and HPB centres globally. The centre reportedly performs over 200 liver transplants annually (and an equal number of complex HPB surgical cases) and cumulatively has completed over 3,000 liver transplants.
Prof Gupta’s role is not only as the lead surgeon but also as institutional architect – shaping multidisciplinary teams comprising hepatologists, transplant surgeons, anaesthetists, intensivists, critical-care staff, allied services and transplant coordination. He emphasises rigorous safety protocols across all divisions: hepatology, anaesthesia, intensive care and post-transplant rehabilitation.
Prof Gupta’s speciality spans liver transplantation (especially living-donor liver transplant, LDLT), HPB oncology (liver resections, bile-duct surgery, pancreatic surgery), paediatric liver transplant, and complex hepatobiliary disease management.
A key element of his work has been developing and consolidating living?donor liver transplantation in India, addressing the relative paucity of deceased?donor organs in the country. He has overseen large volumes of LDLT cases, including some among the youngest children in India.
His team has also achieved high success rates, with many LDLT cases achieving 90-95% success in selected situations.
Beyond transplantation, his HPB surgical practice includes major liver resections (for tumours, metastases), complex bile duct surgeries, pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple’s surgery) and donor hepatectomy innovations including robotic or laparoscopic donor hepatectomy.
His approach emphasises that transplantation is often only part of the patient’s journey: medical hepatology, critical care, post-transplant monitoring and long-term follow-up are all integral. He has said that while transplantation is a cure for select patients, many with liver disease may be salvaged without transplant if managed in time.
Prof Gupta has a strong academic footprint: he has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, many focusing on living donor liver transplantation, outcomes, paediatric transplant, hepatobiliary surgery and transplantation immunology.
He has also contributed to developing guidelines for liver disease and transplantation in India in collaboration with bodies such as the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and India’s Ministry of Health.
In terms of surgical innovation, under his leadership the centre at Max has integrated robotic donor hepatectomy (minimally invasive donor surgery) to reduce morbidity, speed recovery and improve donor safety.
Prof Gupta is also heavily involved in mentorship and training: he supervises post-graduate fellows, organises workshops, live surgical demonstrations, and supports capacity building in hepatobiliary and transplant surgery in the Indian subcontinent and beyond.