Biography/WhoISWho

Born and raised in the Sindhuli District, Bohoretar, in 1985, Prabhu Acharya is a businessman in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA. His love for children has added meaning to his life, and he hopes to establish an adoption center for the kids of Nepal in the coming future.
Prabhu grew up watching his father change the lives of hundreds of kids by educating them. After completing his school-level education, he received his Bachelor of Communication from Shankar Dev Campus and was actively involved as a volunteer for data collection for two years after graduation. In 2005, Prabhu moved to the vibrant city of Boston, USA. Once he completed the hospitality management program from Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, he worked at an Indian restaurant for a couple of months. He then was the manager of a Seven-Eleven store and DoubleTree by Hilton for some time to gain experience for his upcoming venture. In 2013, Prabhu moved to Oklahoma and started a gas station there. His hard work and dedication led him to immense success.
In 2015, Prabhu started a restaurant named Mt. Everest Cuisines Restaurant in Edmond, OK. The restaurant is not only one of the best restaurants in the town but also the first Nepali restaurant in Oklahoma. While Prabhu realizes that the hotel industry is challenging and demands a lot of toils, he never fails to put extraordinary effort into people’s service. Moreover, Prabhu is an equally motivated social servant too. He has been involved in multiple social service activities in his life and hopes to start a charity project soon.
Prabhu’s life is an excellent example of the power of determination to achieve and make a difference. As he lives with his wife in Oklahoma, the world waits for Prabhu to shine brighter and bring light to the lives of many children.

“If you’re the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”
If Warren Buffet, the billionaire philanthropist, made this statement for compassion, CK Parajuli’s work confirms this. An influential entrepreneur from Atlanta, Georgia, is well-known as the quietest social hero who believes “the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Born and raised in a middle-class peasant family with six brothers in Chapakot, Kaski of Nepal, Mr. Parajuli completed SLC from Tribhuvan Secondary School in 1986. He earned a B.A. in Economics from Prithivi Narayan Campus, Pokhara.
A multitasking youth initiated various careers but found huge success in movie distribution when he distributed Nepali superhit movies such as Kanyadan, Trishna, etc. His passion for enjoying western life made him leave the business and go to West Germany for foreign employment. But he could not stay there more than one year, owing to the political turmoil in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin wall.
He returned to Kathmandu and started an InfoTech Computer business in Bagbazar in 1993, where he achieved huge financial success. Parajuli also generated another business, Himalayan Rafting Company.
He left the country in 1997 in search of broader opportunities, and of course, the United States was the only choice where he could meet his dream. Going through bitter experiences and facing many hardships, he ultimately ended up settling there.
Within the initial three years, he got kind of series success in a foreign land working at a restaurant. After working for eight years, he quit the job to be his boss. He started his own business named Yeti Express, Euro Grill, in 2005, which he sold in 18 months. Then he started an ice cream shop inside CNN, world leading television station building, in 2008.
A quicker, more innovative, and well-experienced, Parajuli materialized as an animated entrepreneur, which took him to meet an exciting offer from renowned franchise restaurant Dairy Queen to start a joint venture. Fascinatingly, on a summer day in 2008, he became the owner of Dairy Queen in Atlanta.
He founded the Nepalese Association of Georgia, which he held up from 2002 to 2009. Parajuli is a pioneering social hero for his distinguished humanitarian work that saved hundreds of lives from vulnerable situations like illness, illiteracy, poverty, and natural disasters. He has been funding several scholarships through the peace for people program in Dhading, Palpa, and other parts of Nepal to secure higher education for poor and needy students. His ideas of raising funds and donations for the Nepal earthquake victims of 2015 and flood victims of 2017 are some remarkable instances.
Considering his magnificent social deeds, the Nepalese Association of South East America, the Association of Nepali in America, and the Nepalese Association of Georgia have nominated him as an advisory body member. Parajuli was also nominated as the Vice President of Trade and Tourism for the promotion committee of NRNA NCC USA. Due to his exceptional social dedication, Parajuli has been felicitated with several prestigious awards and honors, such as the Social Hero of The Year in 2014, awarded by NASeA. A happy family including his wife and two sons, has been living in Atlanta.

A highly reputed social worker and real estate broker of Iowa and Illinois state Susmita Dahal was born in Nepal, in 1968, as a second daughter who enjoyed a marvelous childhood, because of her educated and prosperous family background. Before enrolling at New York University in 1991 for further study, she earned a master’s degree in economics from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu in 1990. She completed a Diploma in information systems from Black Hawk College.
A happy mother of two boys, she turned into a businesswoman in 2003 when her husband, a kidney doctor, got into a very unfair partnership dispute with his former partner. Everything changed. They were so stressed; they had just built a big house and moved in but had no savings or way out. She took the matter very seriously, and to solve the financial crisis; she explored some genius ideas. She enrolled in the Real Estate Sales Person class, which finally proved one of her life’s wisest decisions. She used to take the course in the nighttime so that she could also care for her family.
After completing her course, she joined Mel Foster Co., a renowned real estate company, in November 2003. She became the Top New agent and Top relocation agent in her first year of business. In 2014, she was hired by ReMax River Cities and still works there. She has won the Top Salesman Award with ReMax a couple of times. She received the Hall of Fame award with Remax within three years of being a ReMax agent. It is an award given to any individual who can produce over 1 million dollars in commission as a ReMax agent. She was the top agent for the Illinois Quad city area in 2011 and Top in the office in 2008, 2011, and 2016. She also achieved the goal of Top New agent 2004, Top Relocation agent 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. She was awarded with Top Agent Award in 2008, 2011, and 2016. A very persistent and hardworking woman, Sushmita Dahal, has sold over $100,000,000 of real estate in the market since 2003.
If asked about the secret of success, she has an obvious answer: “genuinely care about clients and always put them first”. She never gives up and keeps putting in her best effort until that is accomplished.
Apart from entrepreneurship, Sushmita has a wide identity as a social worker and philanthropist, which she built by serving many organizations for several years. She was the President of Quadcities Nepalese Society in 2011, Treasurer of Friends of India in 1997, and Board Member of Two Rivers YMCA in 2016. She has been a Member of the Quad City Board of Realtors since 2003, the National Association of Realtors since 2003, and the Rock Island Medical Alliance since 1994. As a result of her South Asian background, she is always willing to help anyone from Nepal, Bhutan, India, and Pakistan. She has volunteered to help and has helped her local court, police, and hospitals to translate and do other papers works. She raised over $100,000 for medical relief and supplies, for the earthquake victims of Nepal in 2015, through Quad City Nepali Nepalese Society while she was the President.
Sushmita came to the USA in February of 1990, as a newlywed wife of a medical resident, in New York City, where she didn’t even know anyone else. She wanted to learn and understand American Culture by exploring herself, and soon joined the Baruch College in Manhattan. She was amazed at how encouraging American Professors were, which even made her understanding of things more manageable. She moved to the Quad cities in June of 1994 with two little sons and many dreams, which seem to have been achieved.

The most important thing required to fly is a desire to fly. Pralhad Pant and his wife, Bindu Pant from Nepal, have always desired to travel to the United States for their studies. Unfortunately, they were denied a passport by the autocratic Panchayat government of Nepal. After years of struggle, the Pants met their dream in 1976 and have lived in the US ever since, studying in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and working in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Pant started his teaching career in 1976 as a teaching assistant/fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Before that, he worked as a highway engineer at the Ministry of Transport, Roads Dept., Nepal, from 1962 to 1975. He received a master’s in public works from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977. In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the same university, becoming the first Nepali to receive an engineering Ph.D. from a university in the United States. After that, he was also the first Nepali to teach engineering at a university in the United States faculty member.
In 2003, Dr. Pant took voluntary retirement from his job as professor of civil engineering at the University of Cincinnati, where he taught for twenty-seven years. The university recognized him with the title of professor emeritus, an honorary life title. After his voluntary retirement from the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Pant became an entrepreneur with his startup company PDP Associates. He has been the president of the company, a provider of high-tech “smart work zone systems,” for the past eighteen years.
In 2008, Pralhad Pant and his wife, Bindu, started the Pralhad & Bindu Pant Orphans Foundation (a non-profit, 501[c]3 organization) with an endowment fund of $150,000, which has been providing food, shelter, and education to Nepal’s poorest, parentless children. “When my wife and I wanted to assist Nepal’s children, we could not think of anyone other than its orphans, who are deprived of their parent’s love and care at a very early age,” said Dr. Pant.
Pant was the President of ANMA (Association of Nepalese in Midwest America) from 1991 to 1993. In 1991, he founded the NAC (Nepalese American Council), later renamed the NRN NCC of the USA in 2010. He served as the president of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Ohio Section (1996) and the American Society of Civil Engineers, Cincinnati Section (1991–1992). He was the first foreign-born person to serve as president of these organizations. The contributions of Pant and his wife to the community are indeed praiseworthy and will continue to impact the lives of many who desire to explore the world as they did when they were young.

Thakur Dhakal is a stormwater management expert and guides the formulation and implementation of stormwater management-related policies by the Fairfax County government in Virginia, one of the richest counties in the US. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Nepal, in 1999, Thakur completed his master’s degree in project management at the University of Maryland, USA, in 2010. As of now, his areas of expertise include hydrology, hydraulics, erosion and sediment control, stormwater management, best management practices and their evaluation, Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4), Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), floodplain studies, climate change and resiliency, sustainable development, project management, and comprehensive planning and policy for local governments.
Dhakal worked in the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, the government of Nepal, from 1990 to 2005, first as an overseer, then as an engineer and division chief. He also worked as an engineer in Nepal’s largest drinking water project, the Melamchi Water Supply Project, in 2005.
Dhakal was the technical chair and proceedings editor at the Annual Conference of the American Society of Nepalese Engineers (ASNEngr) in 2015 and 2018. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia, USA. He presented his paper on “Sustainability through Resource Recovery: Beyond the 3Rs,” at the proceedings at the ASNEngr Ninth Annual Conference, Houston, TX, September 17–18, 2016. He was an instructor at the Stormwater Management Seminar organized in 2016 and 2017 by Halfmoon Education Inc. In addition, he instructed at the Storm Water Management Ordinance training to Industry, Engineers and Surveyors Institute Chantilly, VA, in May 2014. He taught at the Fundamental of Land Development, Engineers and Surveyors Institute, Chantilly, VA, in October 2016, and Fairfax County Policy and Procedure Updates, Engineers and Surveyors Institute, Chantilly, VA, in October 2013.
From 2013 to 2014, Dhakal was the president of B2 Toasters Toastmasters Club, Fairfax, VA, and the president of the Greater Washington, DC, Chapter of the American Society of Nepalese Engineers (ASNEngr) from 2012 to 2014. He was the judge of the worldwide Future City Competition 2016, Washington, DC, and is the vice president (2018-2020) and vice general secretary (2016-2018) of the American Society of Nepalese Engineers. He has been a board member of the Architectural Review Board, Franklin Farm Foundation, Oak Hill, VA, since 2015 to until now.
For all his contributions, Dhakal received the Champion Award in 2009, 2014, and 2016; the Land Conservation Award in 2011 and 2012; the Outstanding Performance Award in 2013; and the Team Excellence Award in 2018. At Toastmasters International, he was the Competent Communicator in 2010 and Competent Leader in 2013 and achieved Advanced Leader Bronze in 2015. He has also collected Dual Combined Administrator Certification in Virginia on Storm Water and ESC. The exemplary story of Dhakal’s life continues to touch the hearts of hundreds of dreamers worldwide.

In the heart of those who explore lies a deep desire to expose all of us to the part of the universe they reveal. Those are the people we call teachers and professors and show our highest gratitude and respect. Jay P. Sah, a research associate professor at the Southeast Environmental Research Center (SERC)/ Institute of Water and Environment (InWE), is an explorer who has spent most of his life experimenting with Mother Nature to learn more about her. The scientific community highly acknowledges Mr. Sah as an author of almost three hundred research papers on various fields, such as vegetation-environmental relationships, disturbance ecology, community ecology, wetland ecology and management, biodiversity conservation, environmental management, environmental impact assessment, and interdisciplinary approaches to natural resource ecology and management.
Mr. Sah took his first step in his professional life as an assistant lecturer at Tribhuvan University in the capital city of Nepal after earning his MSc in botany from the same university. He was awarded a Meritorious Scholarship for being the highest-scoring student in the entire class of 1982 at Tribhuvan University. His never-ending academic success was also evident when he was awarded the James A. Linen III Memorial Prize for securing the highest marks in the graduating class of 1993 at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, where he pursued a master’s degree in natural resource management after receiving the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Scholarship.
His scientific accomplishments reached a new height when he attended Florida International University, USA, to get his Ph.D. in biology. As a postdoctoral research associate at the university from 2002 to 2003, he honed his skills in research design, coordination of field works, data analysis, report writing, presentations, and manuscript preparation to analyze Tree Island and L-31 vegetation data and write about the vegetation part of the comprehensive reports. Moreover, as a visiting research associate at the same university from 2003 to 2007, he focused on studying the ecosystem of South Florida, especially the habitat of the endangered seaside sparrow. After serving as a research associate/faculty member at Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, since 2007, he was honored with a Ten-Year Service Award in the Fall of 2013. In addition, he was awarded the Research Excellence Award by the College of Arts, Science, and Education (CASE) of Florida International University in the fall of 2017.
The most extraordinary award for Mr. Sah is undoubtedly the success of hundreds of individuals he has enlightened and is enlightening through his teaching, books, technical reports, and mentorships. I have given back to society by holding significant positions in organizations such as the International Association of Vegetation Science (IAVS), International Association for Ecology (INTECOL), Ecological Society of America (ESA), Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), National Geographic Society (NGS), Natural History Society of Nepal (NAHSON), Nepal Botanical Society (NBS); Ecological Society, Nepal (ECOS); Wetlands Nepal (WetNepal), and Nepal Botanical Society, Mr. Sah’s legacy will always be celebrated by everyone enthusiastic about the path he follows, or is simply inspired by the passion he inherits for scientific exploration.

Durga Pokharel, former Minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare of Nepal from 2005-2006, grew up in Kachiday Village of Dhankuta district, Nepal, listening to horror women stories told by her five widowed close relatives. These women were forcefully sent packing after their husbands died, but because of the liberalism of the Pokhrel family, they were given shelter to live. She told her widow relatives that she would never get married and would go to school. Her father was the first Ayurvedic doctor of Nepal, sent to Banaras Hindu University for higher education by the Rana Prime Minister, Chandra Shamsher JBR. She was the first daughter to perform the death ritual of her father, shaving heads and 13 days of mourning like her two brothers.
After completing her B.L. in 1981 from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, she received the Ford Foundation Grant to study at Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, 1983-1984, earned her M.A in Public Administration (MPA), and completed her Ph.D. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy in 1996. She was the receiver of the Mac Arthur Foundation grant for writing in 1994 and the Resident Assistant Senior Tutor of Harvard University from 1988-1989.

After completing her study, she returned to Nepal in 1999 and made significant contributions in several aspects. She was the Chair of the National Women’s Commission from 2002 – 2004. She contributed to passing an amendment to the Public Service Law to ensure that all women who had been temporary women’s development officers in the country for up to 25 years were made permanent. Pokharel, who had led the government delegation to the UN in New York on the status of Minister in 2005, was appointed as a member of the Poverty Alleviation Fund Committee under the Prime Minister. She also contributed as a member of the Reservation (Affirmative Action) Committee of the government of Nepal in 2003 and a member of the Code of Conduct Monitoring Committee, Ceasefire Peace Dialogue in 2003.

As a columnist for numerous newspapers, she was deeply involved in media as an editor of Manas, a Nepali weekly newspaper, and managing editor of The National Star Daily and Horizon, an English quarterly. She was also on the board of directors of Star Publications, Kathmandu. She served as Assistant Lecturer at Padma Kanya Campus from 1973 to 1973, a Lecturer at Dhankuta Degree College from 1971 to 1973, and Principal of Saraswati Primary School, Dhankuta, in 1966. Pokharel, the producer of a couple of movies, was also involved in the cinema industry by establishing Oscar International College, the only film college in Nepal, in 2008. She is the founding member of the Harvard Alumni Club, Nepal, from 2006 to the present and a member of the Asian Human Rights Forum, Hong Kong, from 1978 – 1983.
She is the founder of ADJST Real Estate LLC, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Pokhrel has published hundreds of articles and research papers in prestigious publications, including some remarkable books. Her book, ‘Shadow Over Shangri-La’, co-authored with Anthony Willett, was published in the USA in 1996.
Considering her magnificent tasks, several national and international institutions have awarded her renowned awards and honors, including Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International, and Mahendra Vidhya Bhushan. As one of the most versatile scholars and bold ladies from Nepali political families, she was even more excited to contribute to the nation. However, some bad things happened in her life, which ended with her bidding the country farewell and moving to the USA in 2013. Dr. Pokharel is settling in Charlottesville, Virginia, and leading a happy life with her husband, a British scholar, and three sons.

Human beings are natural wanderers, and Keshab Raj Sedain, a prominent immigration lawyer at the Law Offices of Keshab Raj Seadie PC, one of the top US law firms, in New York, is well known for making people’s lives more beautiful by helping them migrate to the United States, a land of opportunity. In his career, Mr. Seadie has processed more than a hundred thousand visas and green cards with a 99 percent success rate.
He was born into a well-off family in Lamjung, Chiti, Nepal. When Mr. Seadie remembers his beautiful childhood days, he remembers a day on which he swam for almost ten minutes in the river to catch a beautiful fish. He has undoubtedly always been a go-getter.
Seadie completed his master’s in business at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, Nebraska, in 1993 and his master’s of interlaw (ABT) from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, in 1996. He was a bright student, which enabled him to tackle complex immigration matters in his professional life. Though it is often tedious, Mr. Seadie realizes the beauty in what he does: connect people to their American dream.
In addition, Mr. Seadie is involved in real estate. He deals with buying, constructing, and renting offices to small businesses. Moreover, Mr. Seadie was a former of Board of Inquiry secretariat United Nations transitional officer in Yugoslavia, Zagreb, Croatia.
Mr. Seadie is aware of all his life privileges, so he invests a lot of time and money into creating opportunities for others. He raised more than $50,000 through the Himalayan Climate Initiative after the major earthquake in Nepal in 2015. He funded zinc sheets for around one hundred families in Nepal while reconstructing their homes destroyed by the earthquake.
Seadie is an active member of multiple reputed professional organizations, such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, and New York States Bar Association.
He has always looked up to his father, who taught him to dream big. With Mr. Seadie’s hard work and patience, all his dreams are now a reality. In the future, Mr. Seadie looks forward to helping underprivileged kids in Nepal live their dreams by providing them with cutting-edge educational services. Seadie, who resides in New Jersey with his beautiful family, has an obvious message to the young generation: “Dream big, make a plan, and stick to it until you get to the destination, just like a stamp on an envelope.”

Discipline is more important than the desire to succeed in life. Shyam D. Karki is an exceptional human being who has invested much of his time, discipline, and effort into his work to rise as one of the most successful names in the pharmaceutical field.
Shayam D. Karki received his Bachelor of Pharmacy from American University of Beirut, Lebanon; his Master of Arts in economics from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; and his PharmD from the School of Pharmacy, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He was certified as a geriatric pharmacist by the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy and received a Management Training Certificate from the Department of Administration of HMG NEPAL. Moreover, he was certified in anticoagulation therapy management from Indiana University.
Karki served as the pharmacy department director at Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland and Adventist Behavioral Wellness Services, Rockville, MD, from 2015 to 2017. He was an onsite clinical pharmacist at Levindale Geriatric Hospital, Baltimore, MD, from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he was the pharmacy department director at the Specialty Hospital of Washington, DC, Capitol Hill, from 2011 to 2014.
In addition to serving at different hospitals in managing and directing roles, Karki has made significant contributions in pushing the boundaries of human knowledge through his research activities. He has presented more than fifty posters at the annual meetings of professional societies and published more than twenty-five research papers in professional peer-reviewed journals. He has been an abstract reviewer for ACCP, ASCP, and ISPOR. He has made more than one hundred presentations on issues relating to pharmacotherapy and pharmacoeconomics to a different pharmacy, nursing, and medical organizations and more than three hundred routine presentations (weekly forty-five-minute programs) on medications to the pharmacy and medical students, medical residents, and geriatric fellows at hospitals.
Karki is an adjunct associate professor at the School of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC. He is a preceptor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. He was the chairman of the Performance Evaluation Committee, Pharm-Health Infusion Inc, Rochester, NY, from 1993 to 1997. He served as the Geriatric Pharmacy Consultant at the Jewish Home of Rochester, NY, from 1995 to 2004. He was the coordinator of clinical research & education at Unity Health System, Rochester, NY, from 1995 to 1999. He is the founder and life member of the Nepal Pharmaceutical Association (NPA).
Mr. Karki has been honored with multiple awards to acknowledge his contributions to society. He is the recipient of the Roerig Pharmacy Award for excellence in research in drug use in long-term care facilities in 1993, provided by the New York Council of Hospital Pharmacists. He was elected to a fellowship at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy in 2000. He was presented with a Recognition Award for professional achievement. He sustained service to Nepali and Nepali communities in North America by His Majesty the King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 2003. Though the awards are prestigious, the biggest honor for this great figure is the gratefulness for all the lives he has touched

New Mexico is a place full of culture. For Dr. Keshab Paudel, an extraordinary social hero and medical doctor from New Mexico, the culture of serving fellow humans has been the most important culture of his life. The veteran NRNA activist Dr. Paudel has served as the General Secretary of NRNA ICC ( International Coordinational Council), the umbrella organization of Nepali-origin people in different parts of the world. Previously he served as the President of NRNA NCC USA from 2015-2019 ( two terms) and Chief-Patron from 2019-2021.
After completing his undergraduate studies in general medicine/surgery at Tribhuvan University, Nepal, in 1994, Paudel was a paramedical worker Department of Health Service of Nepal until 1996. Paudel received his MBBS from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, in 2002 and his MBA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2013. In 2011, he was presented with a Pennsylvania State Medical License after obtaining a license from the American Board of Internal Medicine, valid from 2010 to 2020.
He was a research associate for the Japan Nepal Malaria Research Project (2003–2004). He researched “Racial Differences in Colonoscopy Findings, Colonic Polyps, and Cancer Locations among Individuals Age Less than 50 Years” (2009–2010) and “Yield of CT Abdomen in Evaluation of Sepsis of Unknown Origin” (2008–2010) at the Montefiore Medical Center North Division, NY. He evaluated patients with anemia and diabetes at the exact center (2007–2010) and focused on the outcomes of patients with solid organ transplants at the Integris Baptist Medical Center, OK, in 2006.
Moreover, Paudel has made multiple presentations about his work throughout the world. In 2011, he presented “A Study on Stress-Related Weight-Change in Medical Residency: Does the Care for Others Eventually Take Priority Over the Care of One’s Self?” at the Binghamton Biomedical Research Conference. Additionally, he gave an abstract presentation on “Fasting versus Random Blood Sugar Measurements: Which Is the Better Correlate with HbA1c Measurements in Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus?” at the Young Investigators symposium in 2009 and on “Is There a Relationship between the Presence of Anemia and Diabetes to Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Older Subjects?” at the annual fellow and resident research competition in 2008.
His report on “An Inventory and Evaluation of the Health System of Nepal,” published in July of 2003, was submitted to the Ministry of Health, Nepal, and was funded by World Bank. His extraordinary five-year plan for AMDA Hospital, Damak, was introduced to the Community Medicine Department, Institute of Medicine, Nepal, in September of 2000.
Paudel was the system medical director (2016–2017) and associate system medical director at the Lovelace Health System (2014–2016). He served as a medical director of the hospitalist program at the Heart Hospital of New Mexico from 2014 to 2015 and at the Lovelace Westside Hospital from November 2013 to March 2015. He served as the Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at Lovelace Westside from November 2013 to August 2016. He was also an attending physician at Dr. Garabed A. Fattal Community Free Clinic of Upstate Medical University at Binghamton, NY, from July 2010 to December 2013 and a hospitalist at United Health Services Hospitals from July 2010 to December 2013. In early 2004, he joined the Ministry of Health, Nepal, as a medical officer. This was followed by his work as a medical officer at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Nepal, from November 2002 to January 2004.
He was not only elected to be the senior fellow of the society of Hospital Medicine in 2015 but also a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He worked as a board of directors member of the Nepal America Medical Foundation from 2014 to 2015 and has been the president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, New Mexico, from 2014 until now.
He received the Health Care Hero Award: Lovelace Medical Group (May 2016). He received a Chapter Excellence Award from the American College of Physicians and an Award of Excellence from the Society of Hospital Medicine in March 2016. The United Health Services Hospitals presented him with a Physician Leadership Award in June 2012.