Dr. Buddha Basnyat, Nepal

Articles by Dr. Buddha Basnyat

Dr. Basnyat is the past president of the International Society of Mountain Medicine. He currently leads the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit- Nepal based at Patan Hospital and is the medical director of the Himalayan Rescue Association. He holds a Master’s degree in respiratory physiology from the University of Calgary, Canada, and did his Internal Medicine residency training at the Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, US. Having lectured hundreds of medical students at the Institute of Medicine, TU Teaching Hospital as a professor of physiology for over a decade, his research interest lies in working with young clinicians in the study of high altitude illness and undifferentiated febrile illness in the tropics.

Dr. Prativa Pandey, Nepal

Articles by Dr. Prativa Pandey

Dr. Prativa Pandey is the Medical Director of CIWEC Hospital in Kathmandu and Pokhara – a center that deals mainly with travel-related problems including altitude illness. She is a Past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine and is currently serving her term as President of the Nepal Society of Travel Medicine. Dr. Pandey obtained her Medical degree from New Delhi, India, and did post-graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She has worked as a volunteer doctor at the Pheriche aid post and remains a member of the medical advisory board of the Himalayan Rescue Association. She has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and has authored several book chapters.

Dr. Ken Zafren, USA

Articles by Dr. Ken Zafren

Dr. Ken Zafren is the Associate Medical Director of the Himalayan Rescue Association (Nepal) and Vice President of the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM). He is a retired member of the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group and the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group. Dr. Zafren has also served as the Emergency Programs Medical Director for the State of Alaska. He serves as an emergency physician at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage and at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California USA, where he is also a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine.