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Madhur Basnet, MD
Psychiatrist
We need a lifelong approach to brain health—promoting health, reducing risks, early identification, management, and rehabilitation—while also investing in finding a cure for dementia.
Current Work
Madhur is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal where he works as clinician, academic faculty and researcher. He is also national trainer in mhGAP in Nepal and also works in Dementia.
Personal Hero
Professional- Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, Personal- my father
Words of Strength
"Compassionate", "Simple Living, High Thinking"
Vision
Madhur believes we need to adopt lifelong approach to brain health- promoting brain health, reducing risk factors, early identification and management and rehabilitation to reduce the scale and impact of dementia along with investing to identify cure for dementia.
Strategy
Currently, Madhur is engaged in development of National Dementia Action Plan and situational analysis of dementia in Nepal. He is also running a memory and brain health clinic at his institute to provide specialized care to people with dementia and carers.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Madhur's aim is to be a better clinician, researcher and advocate who could work for better integration of dementia care in primary health systems for quality, equitable and accessible services for people with dementia in Nepal.
Motivation
With the immense scarcity of specialized human resources for dementia services in Nepal, Madhur aims to integrate dementia services in primary health care settings in Nepal so that people with dementia get quality, equitable and accessible services timely.
Education & Experience
Being raised up in remote village in Nepal, Madhur received high school education in his village itself and then pursued both his MBBS and MD(Psychiatry) from B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal. He then joined as a faculty in the department of psychiatry at BPKIHS and currently working as an Associate Professor in the department since 2018. He also worked as a Mental Health Officer in World Health Organization, Nepal office in the WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health Program for a year (2022/23) and was engaged in the integration of mental health into primary care in Nepal and development of National Mental Health Program 2022 and revision of the National Community Mental Health Training Packages. He is also the founder general secretary of Nepal Institute of Mental Health, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to mental health in Nepal and executive Board Member of Nepal Public Health Foundation.
Awards & Honors
Ministry of Youth and Sports
Promotion of Youth Mental Health
World Health Organization
Exceptional Contribution to the organization in 2022 as a member of WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health 3-level Team
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