Senior Director, e-Infrastructure Project, Nepal
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical
School
Shiva Gautam is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical
School; currently he is also the Biostatistics
director of Harvard-Thorndike
General Clinical
Research Center
at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical
Center (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School).
Prior to joining Harvard, he was an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University and a biostatistician at the
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He
also held faculty positions at Oklahoma
State University,
University of Vermont and Northeastern Ohio
Universities College Medicine. He received his PhD in statistics from the University of Texas
at Dallas and
post doctoral training from Medical University of South Carolina. He also held
academic position at Tribhuvan University, Nepal and taught at different campuses including
the university’s central Campus (Kathmandu), Min Bhawan Campus (Kathmandu), PN
Campus (Pokhara, Nepal)
and Mahendra Morang Campus (Biratnagar,
Nepal) at various
occasions.
Shiva has published several methodological
and biomedical collaborative papers. He has been on editorial boards of medical
journals, and has served as a reviewer for many medical and statistical
journals. He has also served as reviewer for National Cancer Institute (US department
of Health) and US department of Veterans Affairs’ study sections.
Besides teaching and research, Shiva writes
poems, short stories and essays. He has published two books of poems. His opeds
have papered in many leading newspapers in Nepal. He is involved with various
organizations including America Nepal Medical Foundation (www.anmf.net).
Shiva has also contributed to medical
education in Nepal.
He taught biostatistics to medical students in Nepal as a volunteer. He also
collected teaching material and brought them to Nepal. At his request renowned faculty
from the US visited Nepal and taught medical students of Kathmandu University. He was also instrumental in bringing a
physician from Nepal for
medical training at Vanderbilt
University.
Due to Shiva’s tireless effort a team of researchers
from Harvard and Washington Universities in collaboration with Ganga Lal Heart Center
(Kathmandu, Nepal)
are engaged in a pilot hear study in Nepal. This feasibility study may
lead to a longitudinal study which could be a unique study in South
Asia.
The e-infrastructure/computer
pilot/feasibility study funded by Aditya Jha through POA Foundation was also
initially conceptualized by Shiva.
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