Editorial Board

Phone no: 9851117538
Email: dranjanikj@gmail.com

Chairman of Nepal Health Research Council

Phone no: 9851055036
Email: ganesh.dangal@gmail.com

MBBS, MD, FICS

Dr. Dangal is a Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Kathmandu Model Hospital, and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at National Academy of Medical Sciences. He is also a General Secretary of Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and a visiting professor at Chitwan Medical College Bharatpur. He has pioneered managing free surgical camps for uterine prolapse in rural Nepal. Dr Dangal is involved in organizing comprehensive reproductive health camps in underserved communities in the country. Currently he is coordinating Obstetric Fistula Care Program in Nepal funded by Fistula Foundation. He is also a member and office bearer of Nepal Medical Association, Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Association of Gynaecological Oncologists, India, American Association for Cancer Research, European Society of Medical Oncology, UICC Global Cancer Control Community, International Union against Cancer (UICC), American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, etc. He has been honored by awards like SOMA AWARD, RONAST AWARD, FIGO Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology, FIGO / Chien-Tien Hsu fellowship, UICC International Cancer Technology Transfer Fellowship, and Fellowship in International Post-graduate Training Program in Medicine. Dr. Dangal has mre than fifty publications in National and International Journals.

Phone no: 9841262246
Email: nawaph@gmail.com
MBBS (Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Nepal), MD (National Academy of Medical Sciences, Nepal,)

Dr Hamal has experiences in journal editing and publication for more than a decade. He was former Assistant Editor of Journal of Nepal Health Research Council (JNHRC). Before joining JNHRC, as an executive editor, he was the executive editor of Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA). He is a scholar member of World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and a member of Asia Pacific Association of Medical Editors (APAME). He is an Assistant professor and Consultant Anesthesiologist at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care in National Academy of Medical Sciences, National Trauma Center. He is also a Joint Secretary of Society of Anesthesiologist of Nepal (SAN). He has many publications in field of anesthesia and public health. He has presented in many national and international conferences.

Phone no: 9851040139
Email: drjaywusei@gmail.com

Phone no: 9851033208
Email: docarchana2013@gmail.com

MBBS (Dhaka University, Bangladesh) MD Obstetrics & Gynaecology (Manipal University, India)
MPH (Tribhuvan University, Nepal) EMBA (Kathmandu University, Nepal)

Dr. Archana Amatya is an obstetrician and gynecologist as well as a public health expert. She is a Professor of Public Health at the Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University. She has 20 years of experiences in the area of reproductive health research. Dr. Amatya also works as the executive editor of the Journal of Nepal Health Research Council. Her research interests are in Reproductive Health, Maternal Health Adolescent Health, and Nutrition. She has several papers published and presented in these areas in national and international journals. Dr. Amatya is an international faculty of Global Health course at the University of Tampere, Finland. She is actively engaged with the Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Nepal Public health Foundation, the Government of Nepal and external developmental partners in maternal, child health and family planning in the country

Phone no: 9851061071
Email: arunneopane@hotmail.com

MBBS (Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India), MD in Pediatrics (Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India)

Dr Neopane has been practicing medicine since the last twenty eight years. He is involved in journal editorial role since 2005. He started his editorial careers from the Medical Journal of Shree Birendra Hospital (MJSBH) where he managed the overall publications. He later took over the role of Editor in Chief of the Journal of Nepal Pediatric Society (JNPS). He has edited more than 25 issues of the journal. Dr Neopane is a member of World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Asia Pacific Association of Medical Editors (APAME) and Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). He is the current Vice President of Nepal Association of Medical Editors (NAME). As a Pediatrician by profession and a former Vice President of Nepal Pediatric Society 2014-2016 (NEPAS), Dr Neupane has attended various international conferences on medical journal editing to present his scholarly works.. He is the recipient of the best paper in “Research4Life”, INASP, UK (2004).

Phone no: 9851037888
Email: shaili_p@yahoo.com

Professor and Head, Department of Dental Surgery, Bir Hospital, NAMS Dr. Pradhan is a Chief Consultant Dental Surgeon and Head of Department of Dental Surgery at the Bir Hospital. She is also serving as the chief of Oral Health Unit under Management Division, Department of Health Services. She is a member of Institutional Review Board of the NAMS, where she extensively reviews research proposals for ethical clearance. Currently she is in the editorial board of PMJN. She has been working as a peer reviewer of Journal of Nepal Medical Association, Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, Journal Nepalese Society Periodontology and Oral Implantology. She is also a founder President of Society of Post Graduate Dental Education (SOPDEN) and Nepalese Society of Periodontology and Oral Implantology (NSPOI). She has number of publications in National journals to her credit. She has also presented her research works at various national and international conferences.

Phone no: 9841233850
Email: dramitjoshi7@gmail.com

Phone no: 9841453806
Email:  aaashis7@yahoo.com

PhD in International Health (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden), Master in Health Care Management (Pokhara University, Nepal), MBBS (Kathmandu University, Nepal) Dr. KC has a wide experience in providing strategic, technical and managerial leadership for the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Program for UNICEF, Save the Children and Population Service International. He has provided technical assistance to conduct the equity analysis and develop interventions to improve the MNCH services in Government’s five year Nepal Health Sector Strategy (2015-2020) and National Health Policy (2014). He has supported Government to conduct the bottleneck analysis of scaling up newborn interventions in Nepal and develop the protocol to improve clinical and outreach care for newborn health. He is currently leading the multi-country evaluation of Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) core indicators in Nepal at the UNICEF Nepal. His experiences on evaluation studies involves neonatal resuscitation quality improvement interventions in health facilities for reducing perinatal mortality, and the innovative model of identifying high risk newborns using a foot length measurement. Dr. KC has been the principal lead to intervention study on evaluating “Effect of delayed umbilical cord clamping versus early cord clamping on infant anemia at 8 and 12 months, neuro-developmental milestone at 12 months, 3 years and 4 years”. He has several publications in internationally recognized peer review medical journal. He is also a reviewer for several high impact medical journals.

Phone no: 9841295567
Email: rashmiydv@gmail.com

MBBS (Patna Medical College, Patna University, India), MD (Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India), FICS

Dr. Yadav is working as a Consultant for Obstetrics and Gynecology in Paropakar Maternity & Women’s Hospital under Ministry of Health. She has been working as Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the National Academy of Medical Sciences since 2003. She is a life member of Nepal Medical Association and Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist. She was the executive member of the society for two consecutive terms in the year 2003-2007 and then again joined the third time in the year 2013-2015. She worked as a Social and Scientific Secretary in the NESOG executive board during 2013-15. Prof Yadav was selected as Fellow of the International College of Surgeons in obstetrics and Gynecology in January 2013. She also worked as a Course Director and Instructor in Advance Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) Provider Course at NSI Office Sanepa and Teku in January 2017 for medical officers. Prof Yadav was a editorial board member for the Nepal Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She has number of publications in national and international peer reviewed journals. Prof Yadav was the recipient of Shan S. Ratnam Young Gynaecologist Award awarded during the 19 th Asian and Oceanic Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, held in Seoul, Korea, in 2005.

Phone no: 9851076043
Email: manigautam@gmail.com

Phone no: 9813256060
Email: suchitajoshi@pahs.edu.np

MBBS (Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Bangladesh), MRCPCh (UK), PhD (Cardiff University, UK)

Dr. Joshi is an Assistant Professor in Paediatrics at Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS). She is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics, UK and Nepal Paediatric Society. Dr Joshi is in charge of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Patan Hospital. She is also a co-ordinator for Biomedical Ethics Teaching Committee and a member of the PAHS Institutional Review Committee (IRC) where she extensively deals with ethical rigour of research conducted by the PAHS.. She was involved in the development of the ‘Operational guideline and clinical protocol for strengthening newborn services in district and regional hospitals’ as a part of Nepal Paediatric Society (NEPAS), newborn committee member. Dr. Joshi has keen interest on improving risk management in healthcare and thus has developed clinical guidelines and overseen several quality improvement audits. Her research work includes: use of tissue Doppler echocardiography in newborn infants, Long term respiratory and cardiac outcomes in prematurely born children, and various aspects of infection control. Her research work has been published in various National (Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences and Journal of Nepal Pediatric Society) and international (European Journal of Echocardiography, European Journal of Paediatrics, Archives of the Diseases in Children, Early Human Development, Antimicrobial agents and Chemotherapy and EMBO Molecular Medicine) journals.

Phone no: 9851095679
Email: bikalghimire@gmail.com

MBBS (University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh), MS (Institute of Medicine, Nepal), MCH in Surgical Gastroenterology (Institute of Medicine, Nepal)

Dr. Ghimire is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Surgery, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, and Kathmandu Nepal. He is an executive member of the Society of Surgeons of Nepal (SSN). He is currently a PhD Scholar at the Gothenburg University, Sweden. He was a member of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) (4339/ SP173 – 2010) and has served as a reviewer for many national and international journals. He is a member of the Asian Clinical Oncology Society (ACOS), the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), and the Nepal Onological Society. He has participated in the ‘Workshop on Scientific Writing,’ conducted by INTCR International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INTCR), AIIMS, Delhi and has published extensively in both national and international medical journals. He had served as an editor of the ‘Journal of Institute of Medicine’ (JIOM) and is the Editor in Chief of the ‘Journal of Society of Surgeons of Nepal’ (JSSN). He was the winner of the 'Young investigators award', 9th International Conference of The Asian Clinical Oncology Society (ACOS) at Gifu, Japan and the recipient of the ‘Travel Award’ at the 41 st Annual Meeting of Korean Cancer Association with International Cancer Conference, Seoul, Korea.

Phone no: 9841286978
Email: joshiarbin2012@googlemail.com

Phone no: 9841248584
Email: gentlesunder@hotmail.com

Phone no: 9851140660
Email: rupeshmukhia@gmail.com

Email: sumitpandey207@yahoo.com

Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
Nepalganj Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kohalpur, Nepal
Kohalpur, Nepal

Journal Manager, Journal of Nepal Health Research Council
Member: Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) | International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE)