Binaytara Foundation

USA Coordinators

Robert Molokie, MD

Assistant Professor, Section of Hematology Oncology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Attending physician, Jesse Brown VA medical center, Chicago

Bharat Subba, MD
Hospitalist, St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, MA
Dr. Bharat Subba received his medical degree from B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal. He completed his internal medicine residency training from St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY. Dr. Subba is currently working as hospitalist at St. Luke’s Hospital, MA.

Nepal Coordinator

Umid Shrestha, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal
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Members

Abdur Shakir, MD
Sarah Bush Lincoln Regional Cancer Center Director
Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago
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Amita Gupta, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE)
Division of Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Andrew Trotter, MD, MPH
Infectious Disease Fellow, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease
Tufts Medical Center and Affiliated Hospitals, Boston, MA
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Brian Blackburn, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine – Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine

Damiano Rondelli, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
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David Peace, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

Divyesh Mehta, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

Ervin Hire, MD
Attending physician, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Chicago, IL

Joel Gallant, MD
Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins AIDS Service

Lawrence E. Feldman, MD
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
Attending, Hematology/Oncology
Medical Director, Nutrition Support Team
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center
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Max Brito, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious disease)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Brito is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the Director of the Infectious Diseases Training Program at the University and the Director of the HIV/AIDS clinic at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He conducts research on public health and HIV prevention in Latin America, and is currently studying the feasibility and acceptability of introducing male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy in the region. He has a clinical interest in the treatment of patients coinfected with HIV and hepatitis.

Nina Clark, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Nina Clark is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the Section of Infectious Diseases and her work is in the area of immunocompromised host medicine. She currently directs the Transplant Infectious Diseases program at UIC and works closely with the solid organ and bone marrow transplantation teams to assist in the prevention and management of infectious complications of transplantation. She is also principal investigator for UIC’s Ryan White CARE Act Early Intervention Services program which funds comprehensiveprimary health care for individuals living with HIV disease.

Dr. Clark received her medical degree from UIC and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her research interests at UIC have focused on the pathogenesis and treatment of invasive fungal infections and, more recently, the pathogenesis of recurrent hepatitis C infection after liver transplantation.

Nishant Singh Ranawat, MD
Neurologist, University of Pittsburgh, PA
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Pranav Dalal, MD, MPH
Academic Hospitalist
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Chicago, IL
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Sandra Cuellar, PharmD, BCOP
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois
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