About Us

Lopa Y. Gupta, M.D.

Director, Park Avenue Facial Aesthetics
Co-President & Co-Founder, SaDilKa Foundation

Dr. Lopa Y. Gupta is a highly specialized oculofacial microsurgeon with impeccable credentials. After graduating as Valedictorian of her high school class, she was selected to Northwestern University’s exclusive 6 year Honors Program in Medical Education, where she received her M.D. with highest distinction (Alpha Omega Alpha). She then attended Stanford University, where she did clinical and basic science research on retinal diseases upon being awarded a generous grant from the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation. This resulted in multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Gupta then did a Residency in Ophthalmology at Stanford University Hospital, where she was trained by some of the world’s leading Eye Surgeons. Following her Chief Resident year, she was recruited by Stanford University to assume the position of Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology. Her passion, however, was Oculofaical Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery which led her to a fellowship with a founding father of the field, Dr. Orkan G. Stasior.

Now in her 24th year of practice, Dr. Gupta is one of New York’s busiest laser surgeons, drawing patients from different states and countries to undergo her advanced and innovative laser eyelid and festoon repair procedures. She has earned numerous accolades including Castle Connolly Top Doctor, Top Doctors in America, Exceptional Women in Medicine, Most Compassionate Doctor, Best Cosmetic Surgery and Eyelid Surgeon in Westchester, as well as the prestigious Doctor of Distinction Award for her volunteer work. She is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.

 

 

Mantu Gupta, M.D.

Chairman of Urology, Mt. Sinai Roosevelt Hospital
Chairman of Urology, Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital
Professor of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Director of Endourology, Mt. Sinai Healthcare System
Director, Mt. Sinai Kidney Stone Center
Co-President & Co-Founder, SaDilKa Foundation

Dr. Gupta graduated Valedictorian of his high school and was selected as a Presidential Scholar in 1983, being recognized at the White House by President Ronald Reagan as the top male student from the state of Pennsylvania. He went on to join the prestigious Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University and earned a combined B.S-M.D. degree. He subsequently did his Urology residency at the University of California San Francisco and completed a fellowship in Endourology and Laparoscopic Surgery at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Gupta became Chair of Urology at Mt. Sinai Roosevelt and St. Luke’s Hospitals in 2014, after running the Kidney Stone Program at Columbia Presbyterian for 18 years. Dr. Gupta not only has a busy surgical practice, but he is also actively involved with research and resident education.

He is recognized as a world leader in the research and treatment of urinary stone disease, ureteropelvic junction obstruction, urinary tract obstruction and in endoscopic urologic surgery, having pioneered many of the techniques in current use. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Dr. Gupta has served as a visiting professor both within the United States and throughout the world. He is a frequent lecturer and moderator at national and international meetings and has published extensively in major peer-reviewed journals and authored innumerable book chapters. Additionally, Dr. Gupta teaches various surgical skills courses throughout the world and has served as editor and guest editor for numerous publications. He serves on the review panel and editorial board of numerous publications, including the Journal of Endourology, the Journal of Urology, the Indian Journal of Urology, and Urology. His hobbies include reading, golf, and writing poetry, for which he has won several awards and has published in numerous literary magazines and books.

 

 

Sarina Gupta

Medical Researcher at Harvard University School of Public Health
Co-President & Co-Founder of SaDilKa Foundation

Sarina graduated from Scarsdale High School in 2012, then from McGill Univerisity’s Honors Anthropology program where she also minored in Psychology and earned her B.A. After McGill she was accepted into a premedical science program at Harvard University, where she was then selected for medical school sponsorship. She is currently conducting a research project at Harvard School of Public Health analyzing intestinal parasites within a remote population in Madagascar. She plans to enter medical school in September 2020.

Sarina is passionate about medicine and volunteer work and has already continually devoted her life to these pursuits. In 2013, she participated in a medical camp (funded by SaDilKa–see blog in Junior Chapter) in Tanzania, Africa where she was thrust into action assisting with childbirth at the Women’s Health Clinic of Arusha. She also spent some time at an orphanage and her photograph taken there won a photography contest held by IVHQ. That same year she proceeded to shadow a fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian in New York, watching and participating in numerous bypass surgeries and lung transplants, reading articles, and going on fresh organ harvests. During the summer of 2014, Sarina worked as a Research and Development Intern at the War Child headquarters in Toronto, under the tutelage of Dr. Samantha Nutt. War Child is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and protect children legally and medically in impoverished and war-ravaged nations. Later that year Sarina embarked on a volunteer mission to Xi’an, China where she taught English and Math to children and adults with Down’s Syndrome, Autism, and cerebral palsy. In 2015, Sarina was selected to conduct research in the laboratory of internationally renowned neurologist, Dr. Saud Sadiq, doing stem cell research for multiple sclerosis. She then worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 2016-2017 conducting first neuroscience (Alzhemier’s and brain tumors), then ovarian cancer research (creation of a self-assembling vaccine cure using the ID8 murine model of ovarian cancer) alongside her premedical studies.

In addition to her academic and medical accomplishments, Sarina has been involved in numerous extracurriculars: she was a main staff writer and photographer for the McGill Daily newspaper, she served 3 years as Vice-President for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), a global health club at McGill working to ensure that medical research meets the needs of people worldwide, she won the 2014 “Hult Prize at McGill” event for her creation of a mobile medical care and delivery system within slums, she worked with an elderly women affected by schitzophrenia in Montreal to ease her sense of loneliness, and she became a regular volunteer at Harvard Square Homeless Shelter where she cooks meals and interacts with the homeless.

 

 

Dilan Gupta

Former Undergraduate at Columbia University
Co-Founder and Former Co-President

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the unexpected, untimely, tragic passing of Dilan Gupta in June 2018. He was a 22-year-old undergraduate at Columbia University who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain lesion.

Dilan graduated from Horace Mann High School in 2014 as a well-rounded student who managed to excel in all that he set his mind to. He was an accomplished pianist and percussionist to the extent that he was in the process of composing an entire symphony, and performed at venues including Lincoln Center and SUNY Purchase in New York. He served as Captain of the Horace Mann Varsity Tennis Team and was a top player in Varsity team since 9th grade. Dilan was also a nationally ranked tennis player, having won countless USTA tournaments. Dilan was also actively involved with medical research, co-authoring 2 scientific papers (one which was published in a January 2014 issue of the Journal of Endourology). In his last few years of life, Dilan dedicated his life to effective altruism in his ultimate mission to engage Artificial Intelligence in an ethical manner as a means to make this world a better place. In this regard, Elon Musk served as a huge inspiration to him.

At Columbia, Dilan was a Math Major with a Philosophy Minor. He managed not only an intensive academic workload but was passionate about “giving back”. He made it his priority every Saturday mentor teenage boys from Harlem, successfully getting them off the streets by making them appreciate the value of education. He would play basketball with them, tutor them in Math and English, teach them practical problem-solving, have heart to heart discussions with the boys and their mothers, and, most importantly, believe in them. As if this were not enough, Dilan began his own sports and altriusm-based start-up company, devoting numerous hours to it and learning about entrepreneurship. In Dilan’s honor, the Gupta family dedicates SaDilKa’s pursuit of medical altruism to him, fulfilling Dilan’s mission.

 

 

Kasmira Gupta

Senior, Northwestern University Class of 2024
President of the Junior Chapter of SaDilKa Foundation

Although as a high school student Kasmira is the youngest member of the Gupta family, she made the decision to dedicate her life to the medical field at a very young age. Throughout Scarsdale High School Kasmira has successfully handled a rigorous academic course load, having qualified for all Honors classes (Math, English, Sciences, Spanish).

In addition to school, Kasmira is involved with numerous extracurriculars: she has engaged in traditional Indian Kathak dance for over 6 years, and has performed at prestigious venues including Madison Square Garden, She is also artistically gifted and completed an intensive figure drawing at Arts Students League of NY in summer of 2018. For 2 years, Kasmira has also served as the Head of Edwards William Organization, which focuses on tutoring underprivileged children in Mount Vernon, NY. Moreover, Kasmira has qualified for Signifer at Scarsdale, a highly selective tutoring club that consists solely of students who not only qualify for honors classes, but also demonstrate outstanding academic achievement in these classes. Lastly, Kasmira has been an active participant in the speech and debate team since the initiation of high school, and she recently qualified for the New York State National Forensics League Speech and Debate Tournament.

During her summers, Kasmira focuses upon her passions for music, art, and medicine. She has attended Brown University’s Summer Program for both Medicine, and for Engineering and Design. In her free time, Kasmira composes her own music on both the piano and drums, for which she has been taking lessons for years at the honorable Hoff Barthelson Music School in Westchester, NY.