Professor Samir Gupta

Samir Gupta was initially educated in India and completed MBBS and Doctor of Medicine (DM) from Rajasthan University. He relocated to United Kingdom to pursue his subspecialty interest in Neonatology. He worked as clinical research fellow at Newcastle University and was awarded MD with Distinction in 2007. He was awarded Fellowship of Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health, UK (FRCPCH) in 2004, and Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin (FRCPI) in 2007. His initial research in Neonatology was on newborn respiratory support and advanced neonatal ventilation. He published extensively on advanced neonatal ventilation and worked with the Department of Engineering, Durham university on ‘utilising Artificial neural networks on predicting responses to mechanical ventilation’. He became a Senior Lecturer with Durham University in 2010 and Honorary Professor with Durham University since 2013. He then diversified his research interests and started working on Neonatal Cardiology and Hemodynamics. He was awarded a multi-million £ grant by NIHR-HTA as chief investigator for multi-centre clinical trial on treatment of Patent ductus arteriosus in extremely premature babies (https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/baby-oscar). He founded the group ‘Neonatologists with interest in cardiology & Hemodynamics (NiCHE -UK)’ in 2008 and started the first global annual international conference on Neonatal Cardiology & Hemodynamics in 2010 which he organises still (www.neonatalcardiology.co.uk). He lead UK consensus guidelines on neonatologist performed echocardiography (NPE) training and also became a steering committee member of European expert special interest group of NPE.  He is member of International advisory committee on Neonatal hemodynamics of PAS, USA, and steering committee member of American Society of Echocardiography neonatal section. He chairs the Non-invasive cardiac output special interest group of circulation section of European society of paediatric research. He has authored over 150 articles in indexed medical journals and books and has been invited faculty at over 200 international conferences. He has guest edited journal issues on neonatal cardiology & hemodynamics and is Associate editor for high impact journals. He is currently Division chief at quaternary care Neonatal unit at Sidra Medicine, Qatar (specialised Children’s hospital) and has developed an international centre of excellence for neonatal hemodynamics. He is Honorary consultant Neonatologist at University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton-on-Tees.