Faculty:Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care
School:School of Medicine
Location: Cambridge
Areas of Expertise: Vision and eye research
Research Supervision:Yes
Dr Sapkota’s research expertise and interests are on diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in Asians. His other areas of research expertise are visual short-term memory, and visual function in age-related macular degeneration.
Following his two-and-a-half years' service as an optometrist at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal, Dr Sapkota came to the UK. He obtained an MSc degree in Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science from the University of Manchester (2006), and a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University (2010). Dr Sapkota works as a Senior Research Fellow in the Vision and Eye Research Institute at our Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care. Dr Sapkota has published findings in high-impact journals. He has presented papers at national and international conferences, and has obtained a number of research-related grants and awards.
Dr Sapkota has supervised seven research interns to date, which led to several research outputs.
Pardhan, S., Islam, M. S., López-Sánchez, G. F., Upadhyaya, T., Sapkota, R. P., 2021. Self-isolation negatively impacts self-management of diabetes during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 13 (1), pp. 123. doi: 10.1186/s13098-021-00734-4
Vaughan, M., Trott, M., Sapkota, R., Premi, G., Roberts, J., Ubhi, J., Smith, L., Pardhan, S., 2021. Changes in 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels post-vitamin D supplementation in people of Black and Asian ethnicities and its implications during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 1– 11. doi: 10.1111/jhn.12949
Madheswaran, G., Ramesh, S. V., Pardhan, S., Sapkota, R., Raman, R., 2021. Impact of living with a bilateral central vision loss due to geographic atrophy—qualitative study. BMJ Open, 11(7), pp. e047861. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047861
Pardhan, S., Smith, L., Sapkota, R. P., 2021. Vitamin D Deficiency as an Important Biomarker for the Increased Risk of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in People From Black and Asian Ethnic Minority Groups. Frontiers in Public Health, 8. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.613462
Pardhan, S., Nakafero, G., Raman, R., Sapkota, R., 2020. Barriers to diabetes awareness and self-help are influenced by people's demographics: perspectives of South Asians with type 2 diabetes. Ethnicity and Health, 25(6), pp. 843-861. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1455809
Sapkota, R. P., van der Linde, I., Pardhan, S., 2020. How does aging influence object-location and name-location binding during a visual short-term memory task? Aging and Mental Health, 24(1), pp. 63-72. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1515887
López-Sánchez, G. F., Smith, L., Raman, R., Jaysankar, D., Singh, S., Sapkota, R., Díaz Suárez, A., Pardhan, S., 2019. Physical activity behaviour in people with diabetes residing in India: A cross-sectional analysis. Science and Sports, 34(1), pp. e59-e66. doi: 10.1016/j.scispo.2018.08.005
López-Sánchez, G. F., Smith, L., Zheng, D., Sapkota, R., Yang, L., Chen, Z., Pardhan, S., 2019. Physical activity behaviour in people with diabetes residing in China: A cross-sectional analysis. Science and Sports, 34(3), pp. 178-180. doi: 10.1016/j.scispo.2018.11.004
Sapkota, R., Chen, Z., Zheng, D., Pardhan, S., 2019. The profile of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy in patients attending a specialist eye clinic in Hangzhou, China. BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 4(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjophth-2018-000236
Sapkota, R., van der Linde, I., Pardhan, S., 2018. How does aging influence object-location and name-location binding during a visual short-term memory task? Aging and Mental Health, 27:1-10. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1515887
Felipe López Sánchez, G., Raman, R., Jaysankar, D., Singh, S., Sapkota, R., Díaz Suárez, A., Smith, L., Pardhan, S., 2018. Physical activity behaviour in people with diabetes residing in India: A cross-sectional analysis. Science and Sports. doi: 10.1016/j.scispo.2018.08.005
Felipe López Sánchez, G., Smith, L., Zheng, D., Sapkota, R., Chen, Z., Pardhan, S., 2018. Physical activity behaviour in people with diabetes residing in India: A cross-sectional analysis. Science and Sports. doi: 10.1016/j.scispo.2018.11.004
Sapkota, R. P., Upadhyaya, T., Gurung, G., Parker, M., Raman, R., Pardhan, S., 2018. Need to improve awareness and treatment compliance in high-risk patients for diabetic complications in Nepal. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 6(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2018-000525
Pardhan, S., Nakafero, G., Raman, R., Sapkota, R., 2018. Barriers to diabetes awareness and self-help are influenced by people's demographics: perspectives of South Asians with type 2 diabetes. Ethnicity and Health, 26:1-19. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1455809
Sapkota, R. P., Van Der Linde, I., Lamichhane, N., Upadhyaya, T., Pardhan, S., 2017. Patients with mild cognitive impairment show lower visual short-term memory performance in feature binding tasks. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 7(1), pp. 74-86. doi: 10.1159/000455831
Pardhan, S., Sapkota, R., 2016. Eye complications of exposure to blue-violet light. Points de Vue, International Review of Ophthalmic Optics, September 2016.
Sapkota, R. P., Pardhan, S., van der Linde, I., 2016. Spatiotemporal Proximity Effects in Visual Short-Term Memory Examined by Target-Non-target Analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, pp. 1304-1315.
Sapkota, R., Pardhan, S., van der Linde, I., 2015. Change detection in visual short-term memory: the relative impact of pairwise switches and identity substitutions. Experimental Psychology, 62, pp. 232-239.
Sapkota, R., van der Linde, I., Pardhan, S., 2015. How does aging affect the types of error made in a visual short-term memory 'object-recall' task? Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 6(346). doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00346
Sapkota R, Upadhyaya T, Gurung G, Biswas A, Durgasri J, Raman R, Pardhan S, (2017). Clinical and non-clinical factors predicting retinopathy severity in patients attending three different diabetic eye clinics in India and Nepal. The Association of Research in Visio and Ophthalmology, Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58, 70.
Chen Z, Sapkota R, Zheng D, Pardhan S. (2017). The need for early retinopathy screening and improved awareness in diabetic patients in Hangzhou, China. The Association of Research in Visio and Ophthalmology, Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58, 79.
Robson J, Raman R, Durgasri J, Sapkota R, Pardhan S, (2017). Contrast sensitivity measured with illiterate single-use printed paper charts to assess the severity of diabetic retinopathy. The Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58, 4698.
Robson J, Sapkota R, Kidd J, Newman D, Pardhan S (2016). Self-assessment of visual function using new single-use printed charts. The Association of Research in Visio and Ophthalmology, Seattle, Washington, May 1-5, 2016. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 57, 12.
Sapkota R, van der Linde I, Pardhan S, (2014). Effect of age on the types of error made in a visual short-term memory ‘object-recall’ task. British Congress for Optometry and Vision Science, September 8-9, Cardiff, Wales. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 34, 684
Interview with OS Nepal to increase awareness amongst Nepalese on the UV and blue light and their complications in the eye.