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9:00-11:30 Welcome: Dr Kamal Aryal (Chairman Elect)

Charity Contributions by NDA members

Well-being during COVID & personal transformation

(Featuring Dr Chintamani Yogi (Nepal) & Prof Bishal Sitaula (Norway))

11:30-12:30 First Meeting of New Executive Committee of NDA-UK for the Term 2021-2023

See you all next year ! Hopefully in person !

Stay Safe! Get Vaccinated!

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08:45: Welcome (Dr. Sanjeeb Nepali)

08:50- 11:00 Scientific Session (Moderator: Prof. Dhiraj Tripathi)

Theme: Gastroenterology

Speakers:

1. Abnormal LFTs: Introduction to NAFLD

 Professor John Dillon

Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine 

School of Medicine,University of Dundee 

Ninewells Hospital 

Dundee, UK 

Prof John Dillon is Professor of Hepatology and Gastroenterology and a principle investigator, in the Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, based at Ninewells hospital, Dundee. He is also an Honorary Consultant with NHS Tayside, leading a busy general hepatology service and a research group. He graduated in medicine from St Georges Hospital Medical School, University of London, and subsequently gained his MD based on research performed in the University of Edinburgh while a lecturer in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 

His award winning research interests included; new pathways of care for patients with abnormal LFTs, for people infected with HCV, new therapies for HCV infection, as well as novel diagnostics and treatments for NAFLD. His research activities stretch from the bench to the bedside and out into the community. He has published over 200 peer reviewed original research papers. He chairs the Scottish HCV Action Plan Clinical Leads Group, is a member of the Scottish Government’s Ministerial advisory board for Blood Borne viruses and sexual health. He is Vice President for Hepatology of the British Society of Gastroenterology and was President of the Scottish Society of Gastroenterology. He previously led the development group of the UK consensus guidelines for HCV and has chaired the Hepatitis C SIGN guideline development group. He Chaired the SHAAP group that produced the recent “Alcohol-related liver disease: guidance for good practice” documents. He has delivered over 200 international lectures on liver disease .

2. COVID-19 and Liver

Dr. Thomas Marjot 

Dr Thomas Marjot is a Hepatology Specialist Registrar and Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. He has a research background in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with a particular focus on using experimental medicine techniques to explore pathways leading to hepatic steatosis. In March 2020 Dr Marjot set up the COVID-Hep registry in partnership with the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). This registry has since collected data for >1600 patients with COVID-19 and pre-existing liver disease from 32 countries and 150 centres across the world. This has allowed accurate characterisation of the COVID-19 disease course in patients with chronic liver disease, liver transplant recipients, and those with autoimmune liver disease on immunosuppression. This data has helped inform shielding and vaccination policy and Dr Marjot has co-authored the EASL position paper regarding the management of liver disease during the pandemic. Dr Marjot has also recently been awarded an EASL registry grant to investigate COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity in patients with liver disease across multiple European sites.” 

3. Colorectal Cancer

Dr. Steve Pandey 

Mr Steve Pandey is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Worcestershire. He is a laparoscopic colorectal surgeon with a particular interest in rectal cancers. Having graduated from the Armed Forces Medical College in India, Mr Pandey served as a Nepalese Army doctor for four years. He moved to the UK in 2000 and completed his Basic Surgical Training in Bristol and Higher Surgical Training in the West Midlands. He was appointed to his consultant job at Worcestershire Royal Hospital in 2010. The colorectal unit at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the busiest bowel cancer units in the country with a well established laparoscopic colorectal programme. The unit also has leading experience in novel laparoscopic rectal cancer techniques; laparoscopic extra levator APE (ELAPE) and Transanal TME (TaTME). Mr Pandey lives in Birmingham with his wife and two sons .

4. Gastrointestinal Surgery in Nepal

Prof Paleswan Lakhey  

Professor and Head of the Department (Surgical Gastroenterology), 

Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, 

Institute of Medicine, Post Box No 3578, Kathmandu, Nepal

 Dr Paleswan Joshi Lakhey is the consultant surgeon in Department of Surgical Gastroenterology doing all complex GI and HPB surgeries, upper GI and lower GI endoscopy including therapeutic ERCP with special interest in gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary surgery. She is also the Professor and Head of the Department, teaching all levels of medical students, postgraduate residents and MCh residents at Institute of Medicine which is the premier institute in Nepal. 

She has excellent academic achievements from her early school days. She was awarded “Ratna Bidhya Padak” in School leaving Certificate (SLC) in 1986, and “Aishwarya Bidhya Padak” in Intermediate in Science (ISc) in 1988. After graduating from Fatima Jinnah Medical College for Women from Lahore, Pakistan as a medical doctor in 1996, she did her post-graduation in General Surgery from Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal. She was awarded “C P Maskey FRCS gold medal” in MS General Surgery in 2001. Then she joined Institute of Medicine as a faculty in Surgery. She also did her postmasters degree in Surgical Gastroenterology (MCh) from Institute of Medicine. 

She received intensive short-term training in gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary oncosurgery from Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea in 2009. In 2018, she had the opportunity to do a short-term observership in HPB surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre at New York as the travelling fellow of Society of Surgery for Alimentary tract (SSAT) from Developing Nation. 

She has the credit of being one of the first women to take up General Surgery in Nepal, and the first MCh in Surgical Gastroenterology in Nepal. She has established herself as a fine surgeon and a good academician in Nepal. She has published numerous publications in various national and international peer-reviewed journals. She has been invited to various national and international conferences as a faculty and has made numerous presentations and represented Nepal as a Gastrointestinal and Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeon. 

She was the assistant editor for Journal of Society of Surgeons of Nepal from 2006-2008. She was the General Secretary of Society of Surgeons of Nepal from 2010 – 2012. She was also the Joint Treasurer of Nepalese Society of Gastroenterology from 2011 - 2015. She is the founding Vice President of Nepalese Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (NASG) which was established in 2013. Currently, she is the President of NASG for 2018 -2020. She has played an instrumental role in establishing the International Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (IHPBA) Nepal Chapter. 

She is passionate about care of digestive disease cancer patients, loves listening to music and traveling. As a mother of two daughters, she advocates encouraging and empowering girls and women in whatever field they want to excel and has been active in initiating the “Women in Surgery” campaign in Nepal to encourage, empower and promote young generation. Her motto in life has been “Noble effort is merit” since her school days. 

10:50-11:15 Break

11:15-12:45 Annual General Meeting 2021

Welcome: Dr Ramesh Khoju (Chairman)

Moderator: Dr Sanjeeb Nepali (Secretary)

New Executive Committee announced by Returning Officer Dr Chuda Karki

13:30-14:30 Trainee Presentations

Moderator: Dr Donna Shrestha

Presenters:

Dr Arun Baral:

A case of confusion with Ataxia

Dr Pravakar Hamal:

Clinical Effectiveness of general versus spinal anaethesia for short term outcomes in patients with hip fractures: Systematic Review and meta-analysis of recent randomised controlled trials

Dr Ripak Purbe

An audit looking at the use of prophylactic enoxaparin (i.e Extended prophylaxis) in patients with IBD who have undergone surgical intervention

Dr Deborah Gurung

Laparotomy and COVID-19

19:00-20:00 Global Meeting with partners: ANMF & ANMDA

Missing GALA Dinner This Year too!! Hope to catch up next year!!

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19:30 Welcome (Dr Sanjeeb Nepali)

19:45-20:00 Music and Wellbeing. (Dr Suresh Thapaliya)

20:00-20:45 Dance

20:45-21:00 Dance Winner announcement

21:00-22:00 Quiz (online)

22:00-22:45. Singing (Dr Sudarshan Gurung)