​Non-communicable Disease Project
Team
The program is possible because of hard work from multiple stakeholders and individuals, whom we express our deep gratitude. Some of the team members are listed below.

Local team:
  • Project coordinator: Gorakh Thapa, PCL-General Medicine and Sulochana Ghimire, PCL-General Medicine, BPH
  • Nurse: Purnima Poudel, Staff Nurse
  • Bhumika Gharti Magar, B. Ed, Psychosocial Counselor
  • Several physicians
  • Community partners (Female Community Health Volunteers, Mothers’ group for health, Health Workers, community leaders)
  • Volunteers
 
Investigators:
  • Principal investigator:   Yashashwi Pokharel, MD, MSCR (Clinical cardiology fellow at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Department of Outcome Research and University of Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

  • Co-investigators:    
  1. Gagan Neupane, MBBS (Medical Officer, Health Foundation Nepal and   Shreegaun Primary Health Care Center, Dang, Nepal)
  2.                                                 Sameer Acharya, MBBS (Medical Officer, Health Foundation Nepal and   Shreegaun Primary Health Care Center, Dang, Nepal)
  3.                                                Madan Raj Bhatt, MA, MPH (Country director of Health Foundation Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal)
  4.                                               Lava Timsina, PhD, MPH   (Assistant professor at Department of Surgery and associate director at the Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
  5.                                                Ashish Upadhyay, MD   (Director of Nephrology fellowship program and associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
  6.                                               Manoj Bhattarai, MD   (Nephrologist and Geriatrician at   Kidney Specialists of the Palm Beach and Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at Lakeside Medical Center, Nova Southeastern University,   Florida, USA)
  7.                                              Manoj Bhandari, MD (Cardiologist, Bronx Care Health System, Affiliated to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA)
  8. Dr. Guna Nidhi Sharma, MBBS,  MPH (Senior Health Administrator, Policy, Planning and Monitoring Division, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal)
 
Biostastician:
  1. Lava Timsina, PhD, MPH (Assistant professor at Department of Surgery and associate director at the Center for Outcomes Research in Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) 

Laboratory Supervisor:
  1. Drona Pandeya, M.S., MLS (Laboratory supervisor at Sonic Healthcare, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Austin, Texas, USA)
  2. Jabhindra Ghimire, M.S., MLS (Cleveland Clinic, Florida) 

Collaborators/Consultants:
  1.  Biraj Karmacharya, PhD, MPH (Department of Community Programs, Dhulikhel Hospital Kathmandu University Hospital, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal)
  2. Dinesh Neupane, PhD, MSPH, (Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA)
  3. Ada Thapa, MPH (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA)
  4. Bishal Belbase, MBBS (Karma Health, Dang, Nepal)
  5. National Reference Laboratory (Category A laboratory as per National Public Health Laboratory label, Nepal)
  6. Najindra Maharjan, MD (Nephrologist at The Kidney Clinic, Arkansas USA)
  7. Srijan Tandukar, MD (Transplant nephrologist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA)
  8. Achyut Karki, MD (Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal)
  9. Arun Amatya, MD (practicing nephrologist at Kidney Specialists of the Palm Beaches, FL, USA)
  10. Avinash Ghimire, MD (practicing nephrologist at Nephrology Associates of Central Maine, ME, USA)
  11. Bed Chhatkuli, MD  (practicing nephrologist at Hays Medical Center, KS, USA)
  12. Bhupesh Khadka, MD (practicing nephrologist at The Kidney and Hypertension Center, OH, USA)
  13. Pratima Ghimire, MD (practicing nephrologist at North Shore Medical Center, MA, USA)
  14. Samir Gautam, MD  (nephrologist and intensivist at Johns Hopkins University, USA)