Subash Gupta

Professional career

Dr.Subhash Gupta is accredited all over the world for his leading work in liver transplantation in the Indian subcontinent. Dr.Subhash Gupta and his team has successfully conducted 300 Living Donor Liver Transplant in 2013 at Centre for Liver and Biliary sciences situated at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi which makes them the Most busiest and only Centre of the World.This has meant that 600 major Liver Surgeries each lasting 12 to 16 hours were conducted in 2013. This is an Amazing exercise and every few Centres in the World have managed to complete as any number of Transplants in One Year.

Dr.Subhash Gupta JoinedSir Ganga Ram Hospital in 1998 and set up Liver Transplantation along with Dr. S Nundy. The department conducted the first liver transplant in 2001. This was a deceased donor liver transplant. Along with Dr. S Nundy he started living donor liver transplantation as the predominant form of liver transplantation. After a slow start, the liver transplantation program took off with 66 transplants in 2006. He has pioneered the Development of LDLT in India.Previously patients had to travel abroad to get this treatment at a very high cost.His surgical techniques have brought down the cost to a fraction of what it costs elsewhere and made Liver Transplant available to patients from the India, Africa, Middle East and Far East.

Founder of CLBS(Centre for Liver & Biliary Sciences)

Dr.Subhash Gupta is the Owner/President of The Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences.He has acquired an outstanding reputation in the field of Liver Transplantation comprehensive management of Complex conditions of Liver, Biliary tree and Pancreas.The Center has a highly qualified team Surgeons that has performed number of Living Donor as well as deceased donor liver Transplants. In 2013, the Team has also Helped other Centres within India and abroad to set up liver transplantation.The Team has helped hospitals in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Khazakhstan and results are comparable to those of the most acclaimed Centers around the world.Complex Liver resections for advanced cancers of the Liver, Gall bladder and bile ducts Cholangiocarcinoma are performed regularly at CLBS with gratifying results.Surgical procedures are complemented by an advanced intervention radiology setup that deals with procedures such as Channelisation, radio frequency ablation and per cutaneous alcohol injection into tumor tissue.
Pancreatic Surgery is also carried out in great numbers and we have conducted one of the Largest Series of Pancreaticoduodenectomy operation for cancers of the Periampullary region.The unit has treated patients from all over India as well as patients from Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.Apart from malignancies this unit has considerable skills in dealing with surgical management of all aspects of Pancreatitis. Its faculty consists of nationally and internationally known consultants.***The Team has a Reputation for shunt surgery for patients who have bled from varices. In situations where the Liver is not diseased, then shunt surgery is quite an appropriate form of treatment.Often Because of blockage of Hepatic veins mesocaval shunts can reverse the damage to Liver.

Academic career

A national talent scholar, Dr. Subhash Gupta completed his undergraduate degree and Masters in General surgery from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He specialized in surgical gastroenterology in 1989. In 1993 he moved to England to work and train under Dr. Paul McMaster in the Liver unit at Queen Elizabeth.

In February 1995 he moved to the Department of Organ Transplantation at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, where he worked later as locum consultant.

During his stay in UK, Dr Gupta qualified for Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of Glasgow. He has published extensively on different aspects of living donor liver transplantation such as liver transplantation without hepatitis B immunoglobulin prophylaxis and appropriate CMV prophylaxis.

He has been honored with the position of Associate Professor in Surgery from the University of Queensland, Australia. The Institute of Post Graduate Education and Medical Research, Kolkata has honored him with the position of Professor of Liver Transplantation. He delivered the annual oration In JIPMER Scientific Society, Puducherry in 2011 and is a recipient of a Gold Medal by the Delhi Medical Association in 2005. He is also on the Board of Management of Mahatama Gandhi Medical College, Mumbai as a central government nominee.

With the help of FICCI and Ministry of Health, he has led the team to develop Standard guidelines for treatment of liver diseases and liver transplant in India. This work helped lay down the criteria for correct management of chronic liver disease and acute liver failure and will help in deciding insurance related claims.

Awards

1. National Talent Scholarship: NCERT, Government of India, 1978
2. Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia, 2008
3. Professor of Liver Transplanatation, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, 2010
4. Delhi Medical Council, gold medal, 2005
5. Rotary Club: Distinguished Clinician Award, 2011
6. Delhi Medical Council: Vishist Chikitsak Rattan, 2012
7. Nominee: central government, MGM Medical College
8. Dr. BC Roy Memorial Award, Medical Council Of India

Publications and lectures

He has published over a 100 papers on surgery and transplantation, along with significant contributions to numerous books in his field. He has focused his clinical & research activities towards the medical management of patients with liver diseases. A few notable publishing's are