Shirish KC

Versatile clinical research professional knowledgeable about coordinating patient information, laboratory samples and compliance documents for diverse clinical trials. Highly organized and thorough with good planning and problem-solving abilities.

Also a passionate non profit founder and leader, working to better the lives of the poor and the underserved.

• Founded Doctors On Wheels (DOW) in 2012 and lead the team to organize, raise funds and conduct Health and sanitation awareness campaign (HASAC) in the schools of rural districts of Nepal. Since then, DOW has conducted health camps in remote villages of Nepal annually.
• Lead the Doctors on Wheels team in fundraising and conducting extensive health camp and relief operations during the 2015 Mega Earthquake in Nepal.
• Installed telemedicine units in the hard-to-reach areas of Beni, Tukuche, and Lomanthang via which more than 1000 locals have received health advice and treatment for free from specialist doctors in Kathmandu and the USA via DOW.
• Currently focusing on research capacity building of young medical and nursing graduates in Nepal.

• Licensed Medical Practitioner - Nepal Medical Council- #22822
• SPSS for Research - Certificate from Udemy
• Good Clinical Practice - CITI certificate
• Human Subject Protection - CITI certificate
• Phlebotomy Certificate

• Won the enrollment race for TREAT MS trial - given to the site that enrolls most participants and completes the data collection fastest.
• Captained the College Cricket team that won the inter college Cricket Tournament in Dhaka in 2016.
• College Topper in the 1st professional board exams in Medical school with highest marks in Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology. (2012)
• President of the SET (Social service, Environment and Technology) Club in high school. (2009-2010)
• Elected class representative in high school and then was elected president of the class representatives. (2008-2010)

First Author:

1. Kc, S., Gooden, T. E., Aryal, D., Koirala, K., Luitel, S., Haniffa, R., Beane, A., & Collaboration for Research, Implementation, and Training in Critical Care in Asia and Africa (CCAA) (2024). The burden of anxiety, depression, and stress, along with the prevalence of symptoms of PTSD, and perceptions of the drivers of psychological harms, as perceived by doctors and nurses working in ICUs in Nepal during the COVID-19 pandemic; a mixed method evaluation. BMC health services research, 24(1), 450. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10724-7

Part of Collaborative Author Group (Pub Med Indexed): 

1. REMAP-CAP Investigators, Hills, T. E., Lorenzi, E., Berry, L. R., Shyamsundar, M., Al-Beidh, F., Annane, D., Arabi, Y., Aryal, D., Au, C., Beane, A., Bhimani, Z., Bonten, M., Bradbury, C. A., Brunkhorst, F. M., Burrell, A., Buxton, M., Calfee, C. S., Cecconi, M., Cheng, A. C., … McAuley, D. F. (2023). Simvastatin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England journal of medicine, 389(25), 2341–2354. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2309995

2. LOVIT-COVID Investigators, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, and the REMAP-CAP Investigators, Adhikari, N. K. J., Hashmi, M., Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, B. K., Haniffa, R., Beane, A., Webb, S. A., Angus, D. C., Gordon, A. C., Cook, D. J., Guyatt, G. H., Berry, L. R., Lorenzi, E., Mouncey, P. R., Au, C., Pinto, R., Ménard, J., Sprague, S., Masse, M. H., Huang, D. T., … Lamontagne, F. (2023). Intravenous Vitamin C for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: Two Harmonized Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA, 330(18), 1745–1759. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.21407

3. Writing Committee for the REMAP-CAP Investigators, Lawler, P. R., Derde, L. P. G., van de Veerdonk, F. L., McVerry, B. J., Huang, D. T., Berry, L. R., Lorenzi, E., van Kimmenade, R., Gommans, F., Vaduganathan, M., Leaf, D. E., Baron, R. M., Kim, E. Y., Frankfurter, C., Epelman, S., Kwan, Y., Grieve, R., O'Neill, S., Sadique, Z., … Webb, S. A. (2023). Effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor and Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Initiation on Organ Support-Free Days in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA, 329(14), 1183–1196. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.4480

4. Tolppa, T., Pari, V., Pell, C., Aryal, D., Hashmi, M., Shamal Ghalib, M., Jawad, I., Tripathy, S., Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, B. K., Beane, A., Dondorp, A. M., Haniffa, R., & Collaboration of Research Implementation & Training in Critical Care in Asia Investigators (2023). Determinants of Implementation of a Critical Care Registry in Asia: Lessons From a Qualitative Study. Journal of medical Internet research, 25, e41028. https://doi.org/10.2196/41028