
Mountain medicine and travel medicine expert, General Practitioner, Emergency physician and Researcher!
Doctor with the complete package for your travel to high altitude and wilderness! Starting from your home, through the journey and until you get back home safely!
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Simon Lowe, UK Managing Director, Jagged Globe
Since 2017, Santosh has been the bedrock of medical support to our climbing and trekking teams in Nepal. It has been very important to us that he has been able to give expert advice fluently to our team members, but also to our team leaders in their native language, whether that be in Nepali to our local leaders or in English to the western leaders we send to Nepal. Santosh has shown himself to be an expert in high altitude medicine and this, coupled with his general medical advice, has helped resolve issue quickly and effectively for the benefit of our teams. We are very grateful for all of the medical interventions he has help with and the advice he has shared whenever he has been called upon.
Richard Bull, USA Race Director, Trail Running Nepal
We've been delighted to have been lucky enough to work several times with Santosh Baniya on the Mustang and Manaslu trail races in Nepal. He's everything we expected from a competent expedition medic and so much more. He has always gone the extra mile with his dedication to the well-being of the competitors in tough working conditions of cold and high altitude after a long day of hiking. He's the last to eat in the dining room after doing the evening rounds and repacking the medical kit. He's most recently helped advise us and race applicants understand the latest research and risk with regard to COVID-19 issues and altitude. His articulacy is excellent, patience legendary, humor uplifting and is, in summary, a very valuable addition to any high altitude expedition.
Dr David Hillebrandt, UK Ex President UIAA Medcom
The mountain medicine world is small and it is through the International Society of Mountain Medicine (ISMM) that I met Santosh. Initially we worked together via a UK commercial Expedition company which runs treks and expedition to Nepal. Being a Nepali doctor he was incredibly helpful to me when we were working medically with porters, local staff and clients. In 2018 he organised the ISMM Medicine Congress in Kathmandu. It was attended by about 400 international delegates and all attending were overwhelmed by the organisational skills of Santosh and his team.
Louise Jones Trail Runner, UK
I was a participant on the Mustang Trail Race which Dr Baniya was the altitude and extreme sports specialist. I received expert care, advice and attention including coping with running at altitude. As a result of this specialist care I completed the race and the whole experience was much more enjoyable knowing the group and I were so well looked after. I would whole heartedly recommend him to any groups looking to receive the very best care and attention.
Mountain medicine and travel medicine expert, General Practitioner, Emergency physician and Researcher!
Medic with the complete package for your travel to high altitude and wilderness! Starting from your home, through the journey and until you get back home safely!
Growing up in the laps of Annapurna Range, Pokhara, I had always been drawn towards the mountains. But, it was only in my high school I actually realized how much I love the mountains when I moved to the capital city “Kathmandu” for my higher education. Soon, I was trekking and travelling around the mountains with immense joy and passion.
Later, in medical school I joined a community of mountain lovers called Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal (MMSN); where I learnt about the high altitude physiology and mountain medicine and got connected with the Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA). Since then, I have been heavily involved in the activities of MMSN and HRA which aims to educate local and foreign travelers about altitude illnesses, train medical students, paramedics and young doctors about mountain medicine and rescue operations, run the rescue posts in the Himalayas, coordinate with stakeholders to create safer mountains and promote the mountain medicine in Nepal. Now, I am an integral part of the society and Himalayan Rescue Association.
Currently, I am working as an emergency physician at Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) under Ministry of Health and Population after completing my residency. Here, I am also looking after the RECOVERY (Randomized evaluation of COVID 19 therapy) trial as a site principle investigator and am one of the editors of the Medical Journal of PAHS.
In addition, I am one of the elected vice presidents of International Society for Mountain Medicine for 2021-2025, secretary of Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal, member of Himalayan Rescue Association and member of International society of Travel Medicine. I am one of the editors for the Journal of Travel medicine since 2022.
As a qualified general practitioner, emergency physician, travel and mountain expert I provide packaged medical and logistics service to travelers in the high altitude and wilderness.
MD, General Practice and Emergency MedicineInstitute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal (Gold Medal)
Diploma in Mountain Medicine UIAA/ICAR/ISMM and Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal
MBBSInstitute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Diploma in Global HealthUniversity of Tampere School of Medicine, Finland and Institute of Medicine, Nepal
High School Capital College and Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
Emergency Physician and LecturerWestern Regional Hospital, Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal
Local Organizing Chairperson XII ISMM World Congress on Mountain Medicine, 2018, Hotel Yak and Yeti. Organized by MMSN, HRA and ISMM
Program Co-ordinator, Global Health CourseGlobal Health Unit, National Centre for Health Professions Education, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu
Medical OfficerTravel and Mountain medicine expert at Nepal International Clinic (Travel and mountain medicine center), Kathmandu
Medical OfficerVolunteer doctor, Machhermo-Gokyo Aid-post, International Porter Protection Group
Emergency Consultant and Lecturer Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal
Mountain Medicine and Travel medicine consultant CIWEC Hospital, Lakeside, Pokhara
Editor Medical Journal of Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences
Site Principal InvestigatorRECOVERY (Randomized Evaluation of COVID-19 Therpay) Trial, PAHS site
Medical Consultant Medical consultant for Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA), Nepal
Vice PresidentInternational Society for Mountain Medicine (ISMM)
Secretary Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal (MMSN)
Member Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA)
Member International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM)
Member Nepal Medical Association (NMA)