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There are two main reasons for why Sudha Basnet is the candidate of the month.听

1.听听听听听Sudha Basnet has been a fantastic support for the staff at Centre for International Health (CIH), as she has been a great teacher, doing more than expected.

2.听听听听听Basnet will defend her PhD thesis next week. We admire her work, which is excellent! However, it is very special that she did the last part of the work with her PhD in a situation when Kathmandu had a large earthquake. We are very impressed by her ability to focus and be concentrated on scientific issues in such a demanding situation

CIH is very proud of Sudha Basnet.

The committee:
Bjarne Robberstad
Bente E. Moen

Background information

Sudha Basnet is from Nepal. She was educated as a physican at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical

College and Hospital in Kolkatta, India. In 1998, she entered a NUFU project at CIH, led

by professor Tor Strand, and was educated as a specialist in pediatrics 2001. After this, she

became a lecturer at Kathmandu Medical College and Hospital. From 2003 to 2009 she has

been an Assistant Professor and from 2009 Associate Professor at the Child Health

Department, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine (IOM), Kathmandu, Nepal. She

started her PhD education in an EU-project at CIH, and has worked with her PhD in a

University of Bergen scholarship 2011-2015.

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Dissertation

Basnet will defend her thesis: 鈥淪evere Pneumonia in Hospitalized Young Nepalese Children.听大象传媒 on the Efficacy of Oral Zinc, Respiratory Viruses and Prognostic Determinants鈥� at the听Faculty of Medicine and Odontology 19^th April 2015.

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Publications:

*Sudha B, Ramesh KA, Chitra KG.听 Hypoxemia in children with pneumonia and its clinical predictors听 The Indian Journal of Pediatrics 2006; 76(9):777-81.

*Sudha B, F.C. Gami LShrestha et al. Newborn Care Trainers Guide MBBS Program, Feb 2005.

*Sudha B, Praneswori S, Jamuna S et al. Maternal and Neonatal Care Protocol/Guidelines for Nurses at TUTH May 2006.

*Sudha B, Ramesh KA, Prakash SS. Morbidity and mortality pattern of low birth weight babies Journal of the Institute of Medicine 2008; 30(2):6-10.

*Mathisen M, Strand TA, Sharma BN, Chandyo RK, Valentiner-Branth P, Basnet S, Adhikari RK, Hvidsten D, Shrestha PS, Sommerfelt H.听 RNA viruses in community-acquired childhood pneumonia in semi-urban Nepal; a cross-sectional study BMC Medicine 2009; 7:35.

*Mathisen M, Strand TA, Sharma BN, Chandyo RK, Valentiner-Branth P, Basnet S, Adhikari RK, Hvidsten D, Shrestha PS, Sommerfelt H. Clinical Presentation and Severity of听 Viral Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Young Nepalese Children The Pediatr Infec Dis Journal Volume 29, Number 1, January 2010.

*Valentiner-Branth P, Shrestha PS, Chandyo RK, Mathisen M, Basnet S, Bhandari N, Adhikari RK, Sommerfelt H, Strand TA. A randomized controlled trial of the effect of zinc as adjuvant therapy in children 2鈥�35 years of age with severe or nonsevere pneumonia in Bhaktapur, Nepal听 Am J Clin Nutr听 April 2010;91:1鈥�8.

*Mathisen M, Strand TA, Valentiner-Branth P, Chandyo RK, Basnet S, Sharma BN, Adhikari RK, Hvidsten D, Shrestha PS, Sommerfelt H. Respiratory Viruses in Nepalese Children With and Without Pneumonia A Case-Control Study The Pediatr Infect Dis J August 2010;29(8): 1 鈥� 5.

*Chandyo RK, Shrestha PS, Valentiner-Branth P, Mathisen M, Basnet S, Ulak M,听听 Adhikari RK, Sommerfelt H, Strand TA. Two Weeks of Zinc Administration to Nepalese Children with Pneumonia Does Not Reduce the Incidence of Pneumonia or Diarrhea during the Next Six Months J Nutr. September听 2010; 140 (9): 1677-1682.

*Mathisen M, Basnet S, Sharma A, Shrestha PS, Sharma BN, Valentiner-Branth P, Sommerfelt H, Strand TA. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Dec;30(12):1032-6.

*Basnet S, Shrestha PS, Sharma A, Mathisen M, Prasai R, Bhandari N, Adhikari RK, Sommerfelt H, Valentiner-Branth P, Strand TA; Zinc Severe Pneumonia Study Group. Pediatrics. 2012 Apr;129(4):701-8.

*Basnet S, Mathisen M, Strand TA. J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2015;31:163-6.

*Basnet S, Sharma A, Mathisen M, Shrestha PS, Ghimire RK, Shrestha DM, *Valentiner-Branth P, Sommerfelt H, Strand TA. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 23;10(3):e0122052

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