page_title: Narmada Prasad Gupta
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Narmada Prasad Gupta / Biography
caption_attribution_description: de:Katharinenhospital Stuttgart, Haus E, Kriegsbergstraße 60. Ansicht von Süden (Stadtgarten).
context_page_description: Narmada Prasad Gupta is an Indian urologist, medical researcher, writer and the Chairman of Academics and Research Division Urology at the Medanta, the Medicity, New Delhi. He is credited with over 10,000 urological surgical procedures and the highest number of URobotic surgeries in India. He is a former head of department of Urology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi and a former president of the Urological Society of India. He received Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category, from the Medical Council of India in 2005. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.
context_section_description: Narmada Prasad Gupta graduated in medicine from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, when the institution was known as the Government Medical College, in 1970 and continued his higher education there to secure a master's degree in surgery (MS) in 1974. He started his career as a senior resident at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi (AIIMS) in 1975 and continued at AIIMS till 1978. During this period, he pursued his studies, too, and obtained the degree of MCh in 1977. Moving to Iran in 1978, he worked as a consultant urologist at Shah Ismail Hospital at Ardabil for a year and returned to India and to his alma mater, AIIMS, to join the institution as a member of faculty in 1979. He served the institution in various positions such as Assistant Professor (1984–1985), Associate Professor (1986–1989), Additional Professor (1989–1996) and Professor (1996–1998) and superannuated from AIIMS service as the Head of the Department of Urology in March 2010. In between, he served as a visiting urologist at Katharinenhospital Stuttgart from April to June in 1986. After his superannuation, he joined Medanta the Medicity and is the incumbent chair at the Academics and Research Division, Urology of the medical institution.
  Gupta is reported to have performed over 10,000 urological surgical procedures, including Urobotic procedures and is known to have performed the highest number of such procedures by a urologist in India. He has been engaged in research in the discipline and has published over 300 articles and 6 text books, including Robotic Radical Prostatectomy, All About Prostate Gland, Prostate Cancer Patient's Perspective and Challenging and Rare Cases in Urology, a practical guide for aspiring urological surgeons. He has also contributed chapters to 9 medical reference books and has been a contributor towards the making of 18 educational videos. He is a former president of the Urological Society of India (2006–07) where he is a life member and was involved with Societe Internationale D’Urologie, as a National Delegate and member. He is a life member of such organizations as Urolithiasis Society of India, Association of Surgeons of India, Geriatric Society of India, Indian Medical Association, Indian Society of Organ Transplantation, Indian Society of Oncology and Indian Endoscopy Society, an international member of the American Urological Association, and a member of the Society of Endourology and SWL. Around 110 MCh students have been reported to have received training under Gupta.
caption: Katharinen Hospital, Stuttgart
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