Dr. Ashis Shrestha is a faculty member at Patan academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal since 2009. He is a general practitioner and has an additional fellowship degree in Emergency medicine. He is actively involved in developing hospital based disaster management plans, conducting tabletop exercises, drills and full scale simulation exercises. He has conducted drills for various hospitals and the ministry of health on various occasions. He has been actively involved in various disaster trainings like Hospital Preparedness in Emergency (HOPE), Hospital Disaster Preparedness and Planning (HDPR), Primary Trauma Care (PTC), Integrated Management for Adult and Adolescent illness (IMAI) etc. During COVID-19 outbreak, he has worked as front liner, contributed to activities of epidemiology and disease control division (EDCD) for air evacuation from Wuhan, was a member of clinical decision making committee of EDCD and a member of expert committee at Ministry of Health and Population.
He is also very much interested in research works, the publication work is available in this link.