Dr. Sumit Sengupta

MD, MRCP (UK), CCST (UK) in Respiratory Medicine, FRCP (London)

• Pulmonology

M.B.B.S. – 1989 Medical College, Calcutta
M.D. (General Medicine) – 1993 IPGME&R, University of Calcutta
M.R.C.P (UK) – 1994
Certificate of Specialist Training in Respiratory Medicine (CCST) obtained February 2000 (Specialist Training Authority, UK).
FRCP (London) 2014

Member of the Indian Chest Society (ICS), American Thoracic Society (ATS), American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), European Respiratory Society (ERS), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Indian Society for Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), International Union against TB and Lung Diseases (IUATLD), International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

Academic Awards
National Talent Scholarship from the National Council of Educational Research and Training India; Honours in Biochemistry, First Professional M.B.B.S. Examination; Second Certificate of Honour Anatomy Gold Medal Examination, Medical College, Calcutta; Second in the University Second Professional M.B.B.S. Examination; Second Certificate of Honour Surgery Gold Medal Examination, Medical College, Calcutta; Pardis Lukis Government Prize in Clinical Medicine Medical College, Calcutta; Gold Medal & Certificate of Honour in Medicine Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Calcutta

Work Experience in the UK
My training in Respiratory Medicine was in Papworth Hospital and Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge, UK as well as in West Suffolk Hospital. Apart from general respiratory training I worked in the Heart and Lung Transplant unit, the Pulmonary Hypertension unit, the Allergy and Immunology unit and Thoracic Oncology. I did 18 months of training and research in sleep medicine, non-invasive ventilation and weaning from mechanical ventilation. I spent some time in the adult Cystic Fibrosis/ Bronchiectasis unit.

After getting my CCST in respiratory medicine I worked as a consultant in respiratory and general medicine for 1 year before returning to India in 2001. I subsequently returned to the UK for a 4-month consultant post in 2005.

Work Experience in India
I set up the Respiratory Medicine department of Salt Lake AMRI Hospital (then Suraksha Hospital) with the help of my colleagues. We have an integrated Respiratory Medicine with Pulmonary Function laboratory and a Bronchoscopy suite. My spectrum of patients includes severely ill intensive care patients with ARDS and other varieties of respiratory failure and post-acute non-invasive ventilation and the usual asthmatic, pneumonia and COPD patients. We have set up excellent liaison with the radiology services as I have a special interest in thoracic radiology. We provide specialist care in rarer conditions like interstitial lung diseases, pulmonary hypertension and bronchiectasis. I have a special interest in Pulmonary and venous thromboembolism and sleep disturbances including obstructive sleep apnoea.

Specialty Clinics
We run an Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic – the first of its kind in eastern India – to provide state of the art care to our patients.

Academics
I am a regular speaker in national conferences in Chest medicine and Intensive care medicine as well as a trainer in various CMEs and workshops. Apart from publications in journals I have edited chapters in several textbooks of Respiratory and Intensive care medicine. My special interests are treatment of pneumonia, ILD, venous thromboembolism, non-invasive ventilation and thoracic radiology.