Dr. Buddha Basnyat
Professor Dr. Buddha Basnyat is a pioneer in mountain medicine, director of the Himalayan Rescue Association (dealing with high-altitude medical problems), the Director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal (OUCRU-NP), Medical Director, Nepal International Clinic (NIC), and Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Patan Hospital\Patan Academy Health Science (PAHS), Nepal. His research interests are infectious disease and high altitude medicine both of which are in ample supply in Nepal. He has published widely in both these fields in prestigious medical journals. He has almost 250 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, in all likelihood more than anyone else from Nepal. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh). He is also the Principal Investigator at Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. He is the Honorary Consul for Canada in Nepal.
Publications:
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
- Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
- High-altitude illness
- Acute high-altitude illnesses
- Casirivimab and imdevimab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
- Phylogeographical analysis of the dominant multidrug-resistant H58 clade of Salmonella Typhi identifies inter- and intracontinental transmission events
- Antimicrobial Drug Resistance of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Asia and Molecular Mechanism of Reduced Susceptibility to the Fluoroquinolones
- The etiology of febrile illness in adults presenting to Patan hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal
- Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi A and S. enterica Serovar Typhi Cause Indistinguishable Clinical Syndromes in Kathmandu, Nepal
Admixture facilitates genetic adaptations to high altitude in Tibet