Prativa Pandey, M.D., Medical Director
Dr. Pandey attended medical school in New Delhi, India and was residency - trained in Internal Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She became Board Certified in that specialty in 1984 and practiced for l0 years in the Boston area, as an attending physician at Boston`s Beth Israel Hospital and as a clinical instructor in Medicine at Harvard University.

She joined the CIWEC clinic in 1993 and became the Medical Director in 1998. She has worked one season as a Himalayan Rescue Association volunteer doctor in the Everest region. She is past President of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and is site director for the GeoSentinel project, an international cooperative project to monitor emerging diseases through studying travel-related illnesses.

William Elson, MMS, BSc, MRCGP, DTM&H

William Elson is a British trained General Practioner. He completed his medical training at Imperial College in London and achieved membership of the Royal College of GP’s in 2011. He passed his Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in London in 2011, worked at the National Travel Health Network and Center (NaTHNaC) based at University College Hospital London. For the last two years he has spent time working in a busy family practice in Stanwell, West London where he also spent time running his own travel clinic

Rashila Pradhan is a General Practitioner who graduated from the University of Leipzig, Germany.  She achieved the Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine in Berlin and completed a Masters in General Practice at the Institute of Medicine, TUTH, Kathmandu in 2005.  She worked as registrar and senior registrar in the Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine unit at Patan Hospital for 4 years where she gained experience in the management of acute and chronic care.  She has a keen interest in teaching and medical education and was involved in the management of the outpatient depatrment and improving patient satisfaction.  An instructor for Primary trauma and Palliative care and Advance Life support in Obstetrics, Rashila is interested in the compassionate and holistic care of patients and joined the medical team in August 2009.  She is fluent in Nepali, German and English.


George D. Pollard, DDS
Dr. Pollard graduated from Virgina Commonwealth University Dental School in 1981 and completed a General Practice Residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center in 1992. He maintained a private dental practice in the Denver, Colorado area for 30 years and has advanced training in implantology and reconstructive dentistry. Dr Pollard has a special interest in preventive dentistry and in helping patients plan for their long term dental health. He joined CIWEC in 2011. His wife, Grace Foster Pollard D.Min. is a pracitsing psychotherapist.




Niranjan Sharma, DMD

Dr Niranjan Sharma is a graduate of Emilio Aguinaldo College of Dentistry in Manilla, Philippines, where the American education system is followed.  He has spent time in Japan training in Oral and Maxillofacial prosthetics and implant dentistry and obtained a Diploma in Orthodontics from the International Association of Orthodontics, Milwaukee, USA.  Dr Sharma has been associated in CIWEC from 2009.