Sharmila Anandasabapathy

Sharmila Anandasabapathy is a Sri Lankan-American physician and researcher in the field of gastrointestinal cancer. She serves as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health at the University of British Columbia.

Education Anandasabapathy pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Yale University. She earned her doctor of medicine (M.D.) degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Career Anandasabapathy was an intern and resident at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for three years. In 2004, she completed her gastroenterology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical and did advanced training in the endoscopic management of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer. She also served as the vice president and director of Baylor Global Health, where she oversaw international programs. In June 2025, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-President, Health at the University of British Columbia for a five-year term, which began in November.

Anandasabapathy's publications and research have been used in advanced imaging technologies for the detection of gastrointestinal cancers.

In 2018, Anandasabapathy and her team at Baylor College of Medicine developed the Emergency Smart Pod, a "rapidly deployable, expandable shipping container-based unit." It was designed for the management of outbreaks and emergencies globally.