Prativa Pandey, M.D., Medical Director
Dr. Pandey attended medical school in New Delhi, India and was residency - trained in Internal Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She became Board Certified in that specialty in 1984 and practiced for l0 years in the Boston area, as an attending physician at Boston`s Beth Israel Hospital and as a clinical instructor in Medicine at Harvard University.

She joined the CIWEC clinic in 1993 and became the Medical Director in 1998. She has worked one season as a Himalayan Rescue Association volunteer doctor in the Everest region. She is past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and is site director for the GeoSentinel project, an international cooperative project to monitor emerging diseases through studying travel-related illnesses.

 

Ravi Vadlamudi, M.D., Family Medicine
Dr. Ravi Vadlamudi is a board certified American family physician who joined the Center in 2008. He was Clinical Assistant Professor at Tulane University Medical School until coming to Nepal. He lived in Nepal in the early 1990’s as a US Peace Corps volunteer.

He moved to Nepal with his wife Dr. Holly Murphy, an Infectious Disease Specialist and 2 young daughters. He enjoys caring for children and in the USA, maintained a healthy family practice including pediatrics. 

                                 

Robin Ramsay, MBChB, BSc Med Sci, MRCGP, General Practitioner
Robin Ramsay is a British General Practitioner having achieved membership of the Royal  College of GP`s (MRCGP) in 2007.  He trained in the North East of Scotland but has also travelled and worked extensively through volunteer placements in Uganda the Philippines and rural Nepal.  His specialist interest is in tropical/travel medicine and he has a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMH). 

As a GP he enjoys dealing with common problems related to family practice and is also skilled in the management of chronic diseases (eg diabetes, hypertension).  Robin first worked in CIWEC in November 2008 as a volunteer and liked it so much he came back in July 2009 to take up a longer term position.

Rashila Pradhan is a General Practitioner who graduated from the University of Leipzig, Germany.  She achieved the Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine in Berlin and completed a Masters in General Practice at the Institute of Medicine, TUTH, Kathmandu in 2005.  She worked as registrar and senior registrar in the Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine unit at Patan Hospital for 4 years where she gained experience in the management of acute and chronic care.  She has a keen interest in teaching and medical education and was involved in the management of the outpatient depatment and improving patient satisfaction.  An instructor for Primary truma and Palliative care and Advance Life support in Obstetrics, Rashila is interested in the compassionate and holistic care of patients and joined the medical team in August 2009.  She is fluent in Nepali, German and English.


Mary Miller, DSS, Dental Clinic
Mary Miller is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.  She has been working in both private practice in the US and New Zealand and in the Public Health Service/Indian Health Service.  Mary moved to Nepal with her husband and their three children.  Dr Miller and the periodontal therapist, JoAnna Siobhan Kelly, are American trained and certified operating under US guidelines for aseptic and sterile procedures and utilizing the latest materials.  They update their skills annually with continuing education and continue to provide the level of service extended to patients at the former American Embassy clinic.