Dr. Sangita Basnet is a professor at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Nepal. Until recently she was chief of the division of pediatric critical care professor of pediatrics at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, and medical director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at St. John’s Children’s Hospital, in Springfield Illinois. She completed a three-year fellowship in pediatric critical care at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a three-year pediatric residency at Cook County Children’s Hospital in Chicago. She earned her medical degree at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dr. Basnet is board-certified in pediatric critical care medicine and pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Her overarching goal is to improve child health outcomes internationally. She returned to her native country Nepal after 27 years in the United States to establish the first pediatric critical care fellowship program in the country and facilitate the development of clinical practice guidelines. She played a key role in establishing pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in Nepal in the year 2009 and has been training and working in the units over the years. Dr Basnet has published and presented widely on pediatric critical care in resource-limited countries and quality improvement interventions in the pediatric ICU.
