Dr. Hem Nath Joshi, MS, Fellow

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Academic Qualification:

• MS (General Surgery) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2006
• MBBS L'vov State Medical Institute, L'vov, Ukraine (USSR), 1993

Fellowship/ training:

• Three years Fellowship training in urology from Department of Urology of University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) and Groningen School of Urology, the Netherlands in collaboration with Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Nepal from November, 2007- November, 2010.
• EUREP (European Urology Residents Education Programme) course completed in September 2-10, 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.
• FEBU (Fellow European board of Urology) written exam passed in November 2010 in Amsterdam.
• Clinical Observational Training in Uro-oncology and Paediatric Urology in Department of Urology of University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands from October 1, 2014 to December 1, 2014.

Research Publications

1. Joshi HN, de Jong IJ, Karmacharya RM, Shrestha B, Shrestha R. Outcomes of Transurethral Resection of the Prostate in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Comparing Prostate Size of more than 80 Grams to Prostate Size less than 80 Grams. Kathmandu Univ Med J. 2014; 47(3): 163-167.
2. Joshi HN, Karmacharya RM, Shrestha R, Shrestha B, de Jong IJ, Shrestha RKM. Outcomes of Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy in Renal and Ureteral calculi. Kathmandu Univ Med J. 2014; 45(1): 51-54.
3. Joshi HN, Makaju R, Karmacharya A, Karmacharya RM, Shrestha B, Shrestha R, de Jong IJ, Shrestha RKM. Urinary Bladder Carcinoma: Impact of smoking, Age and its Clinico-Pathological Spectrum. Kathmandu Univ Med J. 2013; 44(4): 292-295.
4. Karmacharya A, Joshi HN, Rajbhandari M, Karmacharya R. Comparison of Symptoms after Routine Double J Stenting Versus Non Double J Stenting Following Uncomplicated Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy (URSL) in Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital. IJHSR. 2014; 4(3): 116-120.
5. Joshi HN, Lamsal R, Shrestha RKM. Effect on outcome of delay in surgical management of hollow viscus perforation peritonitis: an experience at Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital. JSSN. 2012; 15 (1) 11-14.
6. Joshi HN, Makaju RM, Lamsal R, Shrestha RKM. A retro-prospective study of clinicopathological spectrum of urological malignancies in patients presented at Dhulikhel Hospital. JSSN. 2009; 12 (3) 19-23.
7. Chhetri RK, Joshi HN, Pokhrel N, Malla BR, Shrestha RKM. A prospective study of small bowel volvulus at Dhulikhel Hospital, KUTH. JSSN. 2009; 12 (3) 4-7.
8. Joshi KS, Karki S, Regmi S, Joshi HN, Adhikari SP. Sonography in Acute Ureteric Colic: An Experience in Dhulikhel Hospital. Kathmandu Univ Med J. 2014; 45(1): 9-15.

Work Experience:

• Associate Professor in Department of Surgery, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital (DHKUH) from 2015
• Lecturer in Department of Surgery DHKUH, from May 2006 to April 2010.
• registrar in Department of Surgery DHKUH, from 2005 to 2006
• Medical officer in the Department of Surgery, Bir Hospital Kathmandu Nepal, from 1993 to 1994
• House Officer in the Department of Dermatology & Venerology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), Kathmandu Nepal, 1994
• House officer in the Department of Surgery, TUTH, 1995
• Medical officer in Emergency Department, Bir Hospital ,Kathmandu Nepal, From September 1995 – April 1996.
• National Consultant of WHO for Leprosy Control Division, Department of Health Services, Teku, Kathmandu Nepal, From April 1996 – April 1997
• Medical officer in Patan Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal, from May 1997 – Dec 1999
• During the period worked in departments of emergency, anaesthesia- ICU and General surgery

Conference and Training:

• Training on Clinical Leprosy and Management of Leprosy Control Program in Myanmar, Nov 16 – December 15, 1996.
• First Joint Conference of International College of Surgeon (SAARC region) and Society of Surgeons of Nepal, April 20-22, 1995. Kathmandu
• Intercollegiate scientific conference, January 28-31,2002 Dhaka, Bangladesh
• SAARC (South Asia Region ) surgical conference, January 2004 Dhaka, Bangladesh