Sushil K. Gupta, MD - Founder and Chairman

Dr. Gupta is a nationally-prominent vascular surgeon with over twenty five years of clinical, research and teaching experience. He has served on the faculties of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (1979-1991, attaining the rank of full Professor of Surgery in 1990), the Harvard Medical School in Boston (1991-1998), and the State University of New York (1998-present). He has published over 100 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 75 book chapters and monographs, and is the recipient of numerous grants for laboratory and clinical research. As a researcher, he has participated in clinical trials of numerous medical products, including Plavix, Pletal and Regranex.

In addition to his clinical and research activities, Dr. Gupta has extensive experience at the crossroads of industry and science. In 1983, he co-founded and provided the initial capital investment for DataEase International, Inc., a publisher of relational database software. He has also served as Scientific Consultant to Vision-Sciences, Inc., a publicly-traded manufacturer of endoscopy products, since its founding in 1990. Most recently, Sushil served as Acting CEO of NeuHealth, a project of Neuvis, Inc. (since acquired by IBM’s Rational Software division), and was on the board of CareGain, a healthcare benefits software company.

Dr. Gupta holds a medical degree from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and an executive MBA in healthcare management from Binghamton University. Following an internship in surgery at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, he completed his surgical residency at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, and a fellowship at the Montefiore Medical Center, where he trained under world-renowned vascular surgeon Frank Veith. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery, the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, and the American College of Health Care Executives.

After becoming frustrated with the restrictiveness and unreliability of fiber-optic headlights, Dr. Gupta founded VisiLED in order develop a better alternative. He continues to develop new products and is responsible for ensuring that VISILED’s products are grounded in clinical experience and consistent with the highest standards of performance.