Sarita Shrestha

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Sarita Shrestha
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Lalitpur, Nepal
OccupationAyurvedic physician, OBGYN, Professor, Founder and Medical Director of the Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital in Sipadol, Nepal.
NationalityNepali
GenreAyurveda, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Yoga
Website
www.saritashrestha.org [archive]

Sarita Shrestha is a Nepalese obstetrician gynecologist, Ayurvedic physician, professor, writer, founder and medical director of the Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital in Bhaktapur, Nepal, specializing in Ayurvedic women's healthcare.[1][2] She is Nepal's first woman Ayurvedic physician,[3] its first Ayurvedic OB/GYN,[4] who has been called the “Mother of Ayurveda” in the West.[5][6][7]

Career

Shrestha has practiced medicine in Nepal for more than 20 years.[8] In 2003 she founded the Devi Ma Ayurvedic Hospital in Sipadole, Nepal, a village near Kathmandu, and since 2000 she has given seminars all over Europe and the United States. She teaches internationally and in 2000 started teaching Ayurveda throughout the United States.[8] She is the only Ayurvedic OB/GYN and only woman Ayurvedic physician teaching in the United States.[9][8] She is a contributing lecturer at the National Ayurvedic Medical Association annual conferences.

Shrestha sits on the faculty of the Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda inWatsonville, California,[10] as well as the Rocky Mountain Institute for Ayurveda and Yoga in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches annually.[11] She also teaches at The Sacred Window School for Maternal and Newborn Health in Albuquerque, New Mexico[12] and Vedika Global School in Emeryville, California.[13] She is also a visiting Associate Professor for the Ayurveda Campus, (Naradevi, Kathmandu)[14] and a visiting Consultant for the Sri Ram Orphanage, (Haridwar, India). She has worked as a program and planning coordinator for the World Health Organization.[14]

In 2002 she founded the Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital in Bhaktapur, Nepal, outside of Kathmandu, Nepal where she volunteers her time providing free to low-cost healthcare for primarily rural Nepalese women.[15]

Shrestha is featured in the book In Search of Medicine Buddha by David Crow[16] and contributed recipes to author Ysha Oakes's book Touching Heaven - Tonic and Delicious Postpartum Recipes from Ayurveda.[17]

Early life and education

Shrestha received a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) from the Jiwaji University, (Gwalior, India), a Certificate of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery (CAMS) from the Tribhuvan University, (Kathmandu, Nepal) and in 1993 received a Medical Doctor in Ayurveda from the Benares Hindu University (Varanasi, India). She received a Diploma Yoga Therapy from the Vivekananda Kendra, (Bangalore, India), and a Diploma Acupuncture (DAc.) from the Alternative Medicine Center, (Colombo, Sri Lanka).[18]

Awards

Shrestha received the Pandey Memorial Sports Journalist Award in June 2019 from the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts.[19]

She was given a State Education Journalism Award in December 2019 from the Education and Human Resources Development Center.[20]

Publications

  • Role of Cedrus deodar in the Management of Puerperium, MD Thesis, 1996
  • Management of Asthma through Yoga, Dissertation, 1989

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Ayurvedic Physician Dr. Sarita Shrestha" [archive]. Yoga Chicago.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Sarita Shrestha" [archive]. BKS Iyengar Yoga North County.
  3. ↑ "Ayur-Info 3rd Issue - Interview with Dr. Sarita Shrestha" [archive]. Ayurnepal.
  4. ↑ "Articles by Dr. Sarita Shrestha" [archive]. Vedic Society.
  5. ↑ Wallace, Hannah (October 25, 2007). "Healers divulge their favorite natural cures" [archive]. NBC News.
  6. ↑ Laura Mattingly (August 16, 2006). "A Special Stork From Nepal - Nepal's only female ayurvedic physician to give fertility seminar at Mt. Madonna Center" [archive]. Metro Silicon Valley.
  7. ↑ Hannah Wallace (November 2007), "World's Best Natural Cures" [archive], Prevention Magazine via Google books
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Laura Mattingly (August 16, 2006). "A Special Stork From Nepal - Nepal's only female ayurvedic physician to give fertility seminar at Mt. Madonna Center" [archive]. Metro Silicon Valley]].
  9. ↑ "Interview with Ayurvedic Physician Dr. Sarita Shrestha" [archive]. Yoga Chicago Magazine.
  10. ↑ "Mount Madonna Institute Faculty" [archive]. Mount Madonna Institute.
  11. ↑ "Rocky Mountain Institute for Ayurveda and Yoga Faculty Bios" [archive]. Rocky Mountain Institute.
  12. ↑ "Our Team" [archive]. Sacred Window School.
  13. ↑ "Vedika Global Faculty" [archive]. Vedika Global.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Dr Sarita Shrestha MD (AY)" [archive]. Ayurveda Health.
  15. ↑ "Homepage Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital" [archive]. Devi Ma Kunja Ayurvedic Hospital.
  16. ↑ In search of the medicine Buddha [archive]. Google Books.
  17. ↑ Oakes, Ysha (2009). Touching Heaven - Tonic and Delicious Postpartum Recipes from Ayurveda. Albuquerque, NM: Sacred Window Ayurveda for Mothers and Children. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  18. ↑ "Interview with Dr. Sarita Shrestha" [archive]. Ayurnepal.
  19. ↑ "Kunwar, four others feted" [archive]. The Himalayan Times. June 30, 2019.
  20. ↑ "Nagarik Daily's Rauniyar Wins Nepal's National Education Journalism Award" [archive]. Nepal24Hours.com. July 30, 2019.

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