Dr. Needa Shrestha

Description

Professional Experience

• Consultant Pediatrician: Clinic One: August 2022 – till date

• Pediatrician: Paropakar Maternity and Children’s Hospital: July 2019 – till date

• Pediatric Registrar: Ishan Children and Women’s Hospital: May 2019 – July 2019

• Consultant Pediatrician: Nidan Hospital: April 2018 – July 2019

• Consultant Pediatrician: Samjhana Laboratories and Polyclinic: 2015 – till date

• Pediatrician: Kanti Children’s Hospital: 2014 – 2018

• Registrar Pediatrician: International Friendship Children’s Hospital: 2014 – 2018

• Medical Officer, Department of Neonatology: Paropakar Maternity Hospital: 2008 – 2009

Education and Training

• Masters in Clinical Medicine, Pediatrics – 1^st Affiliated Hospital of Jiamusi University, Jiamusi University, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, P.R. China [2011 – 2014]

• Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) – Z.H. Sikder Women’s Medical College and Hospital, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh [2001 – 2007]

Professional Training

• Successfully completed “Clinical training skill(CTS)conducted at National Health Training centre(NHTC)Teku , Kathmandu 2077/08/22 to 2077/08/26.
• Completion of Trainer’s Training of Continuing Professional Development in Perinatology, in collaboration with Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago USA Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine and Parterns for Social Development (PSD) organized by PESON from 3-4 January, 2020.
• Successfully completed “Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS) Course” held at Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) from October 17-18, 2019.
• Successfully completed Online Training Program on Neonatology organized by AIIMS hospital from 2019/12 to 2020/3.
• Successfully completed “Post Graduate Program in Pediatric Nutrition” in 2018 from Boston University School of Medicine.
• Successfully completed ANPLS Training (Advanced Neonatal and Pediatric Life Support) on 1^st Aug-3^rd Aug, 2016 organized by Kanti Children’s Hospital in collaboration with Child Advocacy International, UK
• Participation in Training on Breastfeeding Counseling organized by PESON and Paropakar Maternity Hospital from 3^rd-5^th May 2009.
• Successfully completed training course on CB-IMNCI MTOT on 2071/08/24 to 2071/09/01 from Ministry of Health and Population, National Health Training Centre.

Professional Participation

• Lead facilitator for ”Comprehensive Newborn Care Level-2 for nurses”,at PMWH 2021 till date.
• Consultant Pediatrician for “Status and Determinants of Maternal, Neonatal and Infant Deaths as well as Household Survey regarding Recently Delivered Woman in Nuwakot, Ramechhap and Solukhumbu Districts of Nepal: A Survey Using Community Informants” by HERD NEPAL and ONE HEART WORLD-WIDE from July-November 2018.
• Lead Facilitator for CB-IMNCI training at PHC, Charikot, Dolakha, 2072.
• Lead Gender Based Violence Trainer under project entitled “Providing Training/Workshops on Gender Based Violence and Life Skills Education” by ADRA Nepal, 2009.

Publications

• “Fetal Hydantoin Syndrome: A Case Report” published in Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society, 2010.

• “The effect of 7-Nitroindazole on Calpain-1 and Caspase-3 level in neuronal cells of Lithium Chloride/Pilocarpine induced recurrent convulsion model rats” published in Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary, 2014.

• “Bacteriological profile of Neonatal sepsis in Neonatal Intermediate Care Unit of Central Paediatric Referral Hospital in Nepal” published in Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2015.

• “Spectrum of Congenital Heart Disease in Neonates admitted in an Intermediate Care Unit of a Tertiary Level Hospital” published in Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society, Vol 37, No 2 (2017).