Bio Data of Pediatric Surgeon Nepal Dr. Ashish Lal Shrestha

1. Curriculum Vitae:
1. Personal Information:
Name: Dr.Ashish Lal Shrestha
Qualifications: M.Ch.(Pediatric Surgery), MS (General Surgery), MBBS
Date of Birth: 28th
September 1979
Sex: Male Marital status: Married Spouse: Dr. Pradita Shrestha
Nationality: Nepali
Current position: Consultant Pediatric and Neonatal Surgeon
Grande International Hospital, Dhapasi, Tokha Road, Kathmandu
Permanent Address:
Satmarga-84, Sanepa-2, Lalitpur
Postal: GPO Box-12127, Kathmandu, Nepal
Telephone: 0977-1-5522981(home), 9869134639(mobile)
Email: ashishlalshrestha75@gmail.com

2. 2. Academic Qualifications:
DEGREE INSTITUTION YEAR DIVISION
SCHOOL
LEAVING
CERTIFICATE
Adarsha Vidya Mandir High School
Man Bhawan, Kathmandu, Nepal
1996 DISTINCTION
INTERMEDIATE
IN SCIENCE
St. Xavier’s College
Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal
1998 DISTINCTION
MBBS Christian Medical College and
Hospital, Vellore, India
2004 FIRST
Master of surgery
(General Surgery)
Christian Medical College and
Hospital, Vellore, India
2011 FIRST
Magister Chirurgiae
(Pediatric Surgery)
Christian Medical College and
Hospital, Vellore, India
2017 FIRST
Medical council of India permanent registration number (MCI): 77199
Nepal Medical Council permanent registration number (NMC): 5232
Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons- Associate life member number (IAPS): 1399
Nepal Medical Association-Life member number (NMA): 4151/L-3604
3. Professional training:
1. Early Management of Trauma Course (EMTC)- Christian Medical College
(7th
- 9th
August 2008, Vellore)
2. Basic Surgical Skills Technique course held by The Association of Surgeons of India,
Ethicon Surgical Skills Laboratory (29th
-30th
August 2009, Chennai)

3. CME participations:
CME course Date Institute
General Surgery 4 - 6 Feb 2011 Madurai Medical College, Madurai
General Surgery 7 - 9 Jan 2011 Madras Medical College, Chennai
Endocrinology 9 -11 Dec 2010 Endocrine Society of India,
CMC ,Vellore
General Surgery 2 - 4 Dec 2010 Christian Medical College, Vellore
Endocrine Surgery 7 - 9 Oct 2010 Indian Association of Endocrine
Surgeons
Colorectal Surgery 1 - 2 Feb 2010 Christian Medical College, Vellore
Vascular Surgery 22-23 Jan 2010 Venous Association of India, Bangalore
Paper presentation
General Surgery 3 - 5 Dec 2009 Christian Medical College, Vellore
Swine Flu pandemic 22 Aug 2009 Christian Medical College, Vellore
Surgical
Gastroenterology
20 Jun 2009 Indian Association of Surgical
Gastroenterology
General Surgery 4 - 6 Dec 2008 Christian Medical College, Vellore
4. Conferences and workshops:
IAPSCON 2015- The 41st National Conference of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons-
Poster presentation on: End ureterostomy-An effective and safe procedure for primary
congenital megaureter (1st
-4th
Oct 2015, Mumbai)
Pediatric Acute Care Simulation (PACS) workshop – Christian Medical College
(16th
Dec 2015, Vellore)
9th Pediatric Surgery Update 2016- Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Lok
Nayak Hospital-MAMC (25th
-28th
Feb 2016, New Delhi)
IAPSCON 2016- The 42nd National Conference of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons-
Oral Paper presentation on: The incidence of hyponatremia with the use of hypotonic
fluids in postoperative children (30th
Sept-2nd
Oct 2016, Agra)
Live Operative Pediatric Urology Workshop (28th
Sept 2016, Agra)
Master-class in Pediatric Surgical Oncology 2017- Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate
Medical Education and Research-JIPMER (2nd
-4th
Feb 2017, Puducherry)

4. Course in Basic Operative Pediatric Urology 2017- Narayana Health City (21st-
22nd
April
2017, Bengaluru)
SEPSCON 2017- 16th Annual Conference of Tamilnadu & Pondicherry chapter of
Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons- Oral Paper presentation on: The use of end
ureterostomy in pediatric urology (7th
-9th
July 2017, Yercaud)
IAPSCON 2018- The 44th National Conference of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons-
(25-28th Oct 2018, PGIMER Chandigarh)
5. Professional working experience:
As a Resident Medical Officer in different hospitals including those in remote areas of Nepal in
the below mentioned specialities:
General Surgery and Orthopedics/ General Medicine/ Ob-Gyn/ Pediatrics/ Emergency Medicine
and Intensive Care Unit.
April 2005-July 2006- Resident Medical Officer, United Mission Hospital, Tansen
July 2006- May 2007- Resident Medical Officer, Okhaldhunga Community Hospital,
Okhaldhunga
June 2007- Sept 2007- Resident Doctor, ICU, Department of Medicine, Patan Hospital
2011 till 2014: Consultant General Surgeon, United Mission Hospital, Tansen
As a Consultant General Surgeon at United Mission Hospital with involvement in patient care
and teaching programmes for junior doctors like interns and residents including those posted
from TUTH under MDGP Programme.
September 2017 till February 2018- Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery,
Department of Pediatric Surgery
Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel

5. 6. Publications:
1. Original Research Articles:
1. Acute Mushroom Poisoning: A report of 41 cases. Joshi A, Awale P, Shrestha A,
Lee M JNMA 2007 jan-mar. vol.46.no.1. issue 165
2. Urinary Hemosiderin: Role in evaluation of Chronic Venous Insufficiency. Ashish
Lal Shrestha, Indrani Sen, Edwin Stephen, Prabhu Premkumar, Sunil Agarwal,
Sukesh Chandran. Veins and Lymphatics 2012 aug. vol.1.no.1.
3. Can Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy be a feasible standard in a rural set up too?-An
Experience of 348 cases from a peripheral set up of western Nepal. Shrestha AL,
Shrestha P, Brown D., KUMJ 2015. apr-june vol. 13. no. 2. issue 50.
4. Peripheral Lymph Node Excisional Biopsy: Yield, Relevance, and Outcomes in a
Remote Surgical Setup. Ashish Lal Shrestha and Pradita Shrestha. Surgery
Research and Practice, vol. 2018, Article ID 8120390, 4 pages, 2018.
5. Outcome of end cutaneous ureterostomy (ECU) as a non-conservative option in the
management of primary obstructive megaureters (POM) Shrestha A.L., Bal
H.S., Kisku S.M.C., Sen S. (2018) Journal of Pediatric Urology, 14 (6) pp. 541.e1-
541.e5.
6. The incidence of hyponatremia with the use of hypotonic fluids in postoperative
children. Ashish Lal Shrestha, Susan Jehangir Homi, Reju Joseph Thomas
(BioMedCentral-Pediatrics-under review)
7. Considerations for Surgically Difficult Gall Bladders (SDGB) in a resource
constrained set up for safer outcomes! Ashish Lal Shrestha (BioMedCentral-
Surgery-under review)

6. 2. Case reports:
1. Giant Inflammatory Fibroid Polyp of the Hepatic Flexure of Colon Presenting with an
Acute Abdomen. Ashish Lal Shrestha and Pradita Shrestha, Case Reports in
Gastrointestinal Medicine, vol. 2016, Article ID 2178639, 4 pages, 2016.
doi:10.1155/2016/2178639
2. Recurrent Enterolithiasis Small Bowel Obstruction: A Case Seldom Described. Ashish Lal
Shrestha and Pradita Shrestha, Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, vol. 2017, Article
ID 4684182, 4 pages, 2017.
3. A Rare Encounter with an Expanding Pseudocyst of the Spleen. Ashish Lal Shrestha
and Pradita Shrestha, Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, vol. 2017, Article
ID 9896856, 4 pages, 2017.
4. An Ulcerated Ileal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Disguised as Acute Appendicitis,
Ashish Lal Shrestha and Girishma Shrestha, Case Reports in Surgery, vol.2018,
ArticleID1320107,5pages,2018.

7. 5. Lingual Cavernous Hemangioma in a Nepalese boy- “A Difficult Associate!!!”,
Ashish L Shrestha, Shova Banstola Paudel; Journal of Surgical Case Reports,
Volume2018, Issue 10, 1 October 2018, rjy283
6. A Rare Cause of Acute Hepatopancreatitis in a Nepalese Teen, Swastika Adhikari,
Ashish Lal Shrestha, Sanjay Raj Thapa, and Amrit Ghimire, Case Reports in
Pediatrics, vol. 2018, Article ID 8456503, 6 pages, 2018
7. Pediatric Penoscrotal Median Raphe Cysts-An Unusual Entity. Ashish Lal Shrestha
Girishma Shrestha (The New England Journal of Medicine-Under review)
8. Perilous Liver Cysts in a Nepalese Lad. Ashish Lal Shrestha, Shova Bastola Paudel
(The Lancet-Under review)
Two articles in the magazine Friends of Okhaldhunga (annual publication of United Mission to
Nepal): 2007
1) Success story in the month of Ashoj (saving life of a 2 month old with pneumonia and severe
sepsis)
2) 9 months in Okhaldhunga (a collective working experience in rural area)
7. Special Areas of interest:
1. Pediatric Urology
2. Pediatric Surgical Oncology
3. Pediatric Minimal Access and Laparoendoscopic Surgery.
8. Other Social Programmes:

8. -Health camps during internship at a village near Vellore, 2004
- Free Health Check up at a Local School for Deaf Mute Children, Vellore-2004
- Outreach programmes with the Chief District Officer of Palpa at a village called Arya
Bhanjyang, 2005
-Attended live interactive phoning programmes on the Local FM station at Madanpokhara FM,
2005
9. Awards and Achievements:
-Gold medal and Academic Prize in School Leaving Certificate Examination 1996
-Member of the art club and philosophy club, participation in the Annual SET exhibitions, Talent
shows, St. Xavier’s College, 1997
-Various certificates of Honour for academic performances during MBBS
1. The Best Junior Jaycee Award 1997 (Patan Junior Jaycees, Patan, Nepal)
2. The Orator of the Year Award 1998-Gold Medal (Patan Junior Jaycees, Patan, Nepal)
CANKIDS Scholarship, Master-class Pediatric Surgical Oncology, JIPMER, Pondicherry, 2017
10. Other areas of training : Patan Junior Jaycees:
- Leadership Training Programmes and health programmes
- Elected and served a term as Vice President in 1997 and Executive Vice President in the year
1998