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Sharmila Gupta’s Profile

Miss Gupta graduated from the Medical School of St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1995 before completing extensive higher training around the world. This began with surgical training on the Cambridge rotation and specialist colorectal training at St Mark’s Hospital in London, before she further developed her clinical and surgical skills in Leuven, Belgium and at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

A specialist in laparoscopic surgery, Miss Gupta has been a consultant surgeon at Colchester Hospital since 2010. She is also Colchester’s lead for surgery and lead inflammatory bowel disease surgeon. In 2017, Miss Gupta was elected as a staff governor at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, where she represents the views of her colleagues and patients to the Board. Away from the NHS, she holds the position of endoscopy lead at Oaks Hospital in Colchester.

Miss Gupta has a keen interest in education and teaching, and regularly develops training programmes to share her knowledge and expertise with laparoscopic surgeons both in the UK and abroad. She has worked with UK-based training team Lapco International on projects in Norway, Denmark, the USA, Bulgaria and Poland, and regularly teaches at the world-renowned ICENI Centre for laparoscopic surgery.

Miss Gupta’s professional qualifications include:

  • Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree
  • Doctorate degree from the University of London for research into colorectal cancer (MD)
  • Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)

She has been awarded fellowships at St Mark’s Hospital, London and the Ethicon Fellowship in Colchester. Miss Gupta is also an honorary senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, a member of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons and represents the Royal College of Surgeons at consultant appointment committees.

Miss Gupta has published a wide variety of research papers and presented at many national and international meetings. She is a member of several professional bodies, including the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland and the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons.

Outside of work, Miss Gupta enjoys spending time with her family, travelling and cooking.

Education
  • The Medical School of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London 1990-1995
Qualifications
  • MBBS The University of London 1995
  • FRCS The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006
  • MD The University of London 2006
Professional memberships
  • General Medical Council
  • Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
Publications
  1. Development and validation of a recommended checklist for assessment of surgical videos quality: the LAParoscopic surgery Video Educational GuidelineS (LAP-VEGaS) video assessment tool.
    Surg Endosc. 2020 Apr 6 Celentano V1,2, Smart N3, Cahill RA4,5, Spinelli A6,7, Giglio MC8, McGrath J9,10, Obermair A11,12, Pellino G13, Hasegawa H14, Lal P15,16, Lorenzon L17, De Angelis N18, Boni L19,20, Gupta S21, Griffith JP22, Acheson AG23, Cecil TD24, Coleman MG25,26.
  2. Use of laparoscopic videos amongst surgical trainees in the United Kingdom.
    Surgeon. 2019 Dec;17(6):334-339 Celentano V1, Smart N2, Cahill RA3, McGrath JS4, Gupta S5, Griffith JP6, Acheson AG7, Cecil TD8, Coleman MG9.
  3. LAP-VEGaS Practice Guidelines for Reporting of Educational Videos in Laparoscopic Surgery: A Joint Trainers and Trainees Consensus Statement.
    Ann Surg. 2018 Dec;268(6) Celentano V1,2, Smart N3, McGrath J4,5, Cahill RA6,7, Spinelli A8,9, Obermair A10,11, Hasegawa H12, Lal P13,14, Almoudaris AM15,16, Hitchins CR17, Pellino G18, Browning MG17, Ishida T12, Luvisetto F1, Cingiloglu P10,11, Gash K19,20, Harries R21, Harji D22,23, Di Candido F9, Cassinotti E24, McDermott FD3, Berry JEA17, Battersby NJ25, Platt E17, Campain NJ3, Keeler BD26, Boni L24,27, Gupta S15, Griffith JP28, Acheson AG29, Cecil TD30, Coleman MG17,31.
  4. The role of the insulin-like growth factor system in colorectal cancer: review of current knowledge.
    Int J Colorectal Dis. 2005 May;20(3):203-20
    Durai R1, Yang W, Gupta S, Seifalian AM, Winslet MC.
  5. Laparoscopic Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel disease
    Hollingshead J, Gupta S – Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery (chapter) 2015 Hollingshead J, Gupta S
  6. Preoperative neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio > 5 is a prognostic factor for recurrent colorectal cancer
    Colorectal Disease 2013 Mar;15(3):323-328 Mallapa S, Sinha A, Gupta S, Chadwick SJ
  7. Review of current practice and outcomes following ileoanal pouch surgery: lessons learned from the Ileoanal Pouch Registry and the 2017 Ileoanal Pouch Report,
    Worley GHT, Fearnhead NS, Brown SR, Acheson AG, Faiz OD on behalf of the ACPGBI and Ileoanal Pouch Registry contributors Colorectal Dis 2018 Oct;20(10):913-922