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Dr. Surya B. Parajuli

About: Greetings !!! Dr. Surya B. Parajuli, currently working as medical faculty at Department of Community Medicine, Birat Medical College & Teaching Hospital. He is Chief of Department of Community Research and Development Program, Editor of Birat Journal of Health Sciences (BJHS) and Member Secretary of Institutional Review Committee of the same institute. Since 2018 he has started as Fellow in Translational Research Capacity Building to address Cardiovascular Diseases in Nepal supported by US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He has completed Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Community Medicine & Tropical Diseases from the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal. He did his MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from Kathmandu University, Nepal and Master of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences (Rural Development/Agrarian Injury as Thesis) from Tribhuwan University, Nepal. He has founded and has been leading the Nepal Medical Volunteer Society at eastern Nepal since 2011. He has been continuously involved in Health research advocacy, eHealth initiative, a mentorship program for young students, policy advocacy, developing and setting up innovative community-based health endeavors in rural Nepal. He has been producing and presenting his popular radio health program “Doctor Saathi’ since 2011. It has already completed its 180th episode by 2018 December with having more than 50 thousand active listeners. He was a site investigator at national level RCT for “A randomized, double-blind, clinical trial of two dose regimens of VINS polyvalent anti-venom ATC J06AA03 for the treatment of Snake bites with neurotoxin envenoming in Nepal (n 08-192)” at B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal in collaboration with Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland. Since 2015 he has been leading innovative healthcare project, Budhiganga Health Survey (BHS) having 40165 population with 9500 households at Budhiganga Rural Municipality of Morang district of Nepal in coordination with local government, research organisations, CBOs and academia. He has responsibility as editor of many biomedical journals including Birat Journal of Health Sciences, International Journal of Perceptions in Public Health, Journal of Medical Research and Innovation, Bibechana: A Multidisciplinary Journal. He has published many scientific articles, active as health columnist and currently involved in more than 20 research project and scientific publications. Since 1 Jan 2019, he started contributing as lead facilitator in different modular training on research, publication, grant proposal writing, leadership & management in health. You can communicate with him through "contact/email me" form from his website www.suryaparajuli.com.np or his direct email drsathii@yahoo.com Thank you.