Dr. Ashok Gupta — Senior Consultant in Delhi NCR

Dr. Ashok Gupta is a Senior Consultant at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in Saket, Delhi NCR, with more than 39 years of experience. He is listed in general surgery and in bariatric and metabolic surgery.

His procedures cover the range of weight loss operations from the most reversible to the most extensive. Gastric banding is adjustable and can be undone, and band removal is listed beside it. Sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and mini gastric bypass are the standard operations in the middle. SADI-S sits at the far end, for patients whose weight or metabolic disease has not responded to anything less. A surgeon offering all four categories can match the operation to the patient rather than the patient to the operation.

He took MS in general surgery at GSVM Medical College in Kanpur in 1987, and in 1992 trained in advanced laparoscopic surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. That date is the point worth pausing on: laparoscopic surgery was only a few years old anywhere in the world in 1992, so he was among the early Indian surgeons to be formally trained in it abroad.

He currently works with Max Healthcare, at Max Hospital Saket Smart and at the Max Multi Speciality Centre in Panchsheel Park. He previously practised at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi and at Adiva Hospital in New Delhi between 2010 and 2014.

In 2008 the Indian Medical Association gave him its Exemplary Contribution Award.