Dr. Sangita Basnet is a Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Until recently she was the chief of pediatric critical care 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 critical care at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (2002) and a three-year pediatric residency at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago (1999). She earned her medical degree at Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine in Kathmandu, Nepal (1993).
Dr Basnet is board certified in pediatric critical care medicine and pediatrics, and is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her overarching goal is to improve child health outcomes internationally. She returned to her native country Nepal after 27 years in the United States with the dream to improve and enhance pediatric critical care delivery to the children of Nepal and establish a Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship. 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. She also recently initiated a Pediatric Critical Care Working group in Nepal to facilitate development of standardized protocols to decrease variability in management of critically ill children.
Dr Basnet has published and presented widely on pediatric critical care in resource limited countries and quality improvement interventions in the pediatric ICU.

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