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Dr. Hemang Dixit is
a Nepali born at Kathmandu in 1937. Following
schooling at Sherwood
College, Nainital and
Bishop Cotton School, Shimla in India, he
went to the U.K. to do his A-Levels. Starting
his medical education at Charing Cross
Hospital Medical School of London University
in 1956 he completed the same in 1961 doing
both the MBBS (U.Lond.) and LRCP, MRCS of the
Conjoint Board. After his year of internship
at the Charing X Hospital on the Strand, he
went on to do his DTM & H from London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and
the DCH(Eng) from the Conjoint Board, London.
Returning back home to Nepal in 1965 he
started work at the Bir Hospital at
Kathmandu. Subsequently in 1970, he was
posted to the newly established Kanti
Children's Hospital. In 1975 after about 11
years he left government service. He was
awarded the Coronation Medal in 1973
and later the Suprabal Gorkha Dakhin Bahu
in Dec. 1993. In Feb. 1994 he was awarded a Gold
Medal for "Development of
Paediatrics in APSSEAR Countries" at
the Paediatric Conference held in New Delhi.
In 2002, he was awarded the Birendra
Aiswarya Sewa Padak.
Joining the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of
Tribhuvan University as Reader in Child
Health in 1977, he subsequently became Dean
of the IOM for almost four years. After his
term as Dean, he later became in 1985 the
Professor in Child Health. In that capacity
he is working once again on deputation at the
Kanti Childrens Hospital. Being also director
of the Health Learning Materials Centre of
the IOM, he has been involved in the
production of teaching/learning materials. He
retired from the IOM in June 2000. Since Feb
2001, he is the principal of Kathmandu
Medical College.
He has been President of both the Nepal
Medical Association (1990/91) and the Nepal
Paediatric Society (1986/87). He has been in
the Nepal Medical Council for a number of
years, of which eight ending 1996, were as
Vice Chairman. |
