Narmada Prasad Gupta

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 a former head of the department of urology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi and a former president of the Urological Society of India. He received the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category, from the Medical Council of India in 2005. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007 for his contributions to medicine.

Biography

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 until 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 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 retired from AIIMS service as the Head of the Department of Urology in March 2010. In between, he was a visiting urologist at 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. and six 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 nine medical reference books and has been a contributor towards the making of 18 educational videos. Rani Durgavati University honoured him with the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) in 2009 and the Urological Society of India awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.