Dr. Pradip Dhital is currently living in New York and is a renowned figure among Nepalese in America. He served in five different government hospitals in Nepal before moving abroad.
Born in Kharibot, Bhangyang, Gorkha, in 1946, he belonged to a well-off family and was raised in Kshetrapati in Kathmandu. He is also the founding member and former president of the Association of Nepalese in Midwest America. He headed to England in 1979 before moving to the US in 1982.
Dr. Dhital lived in a joint family, and his parents were financially strong and high-ranking government officials—badahakim (governors)—in Bhairahawa. His childhood was spent among Muslim friends playing and running in Tundikhel, Indrachowk, and Kathmandu. He studied at the JP School, got his SLC in 1959, and completed his BSc from Tri-Chandra College in 1965 before heading to Kolkata for medical studies.
He studied for his MBBS at Kolkata University and returned to Nepal in 1972, where he was placed with a job at Bir Hospital. After a few months of service in Bir Hospital, he was transferred to Koshi Zonal Hospital, where he worked from 1972 to 1974. He later served at Trishuli Hospital in 1974 and 1975 before he was again appointed to Bir Hospital from 1977 to 1979.
He got an opportunity for further studies and left for England in 1979, working as a house physician and living there for three years. He also sat for the ECFMG exam in 1980, wanting to enter the United States. He called his family, wife, and two children after entering the US in 1982.
Dr. Dhital struggled a lot during his initial days in the US before he changed his subject to pathology and got his degree after four years of study. He joined Saginaw Hospital in Michigan in 1986, worked at the Flint Teaching Hospital in Michigan from 1987 to 1992, and later joined the teaching hospital in Detroit from 1992 to 2003. He moved to Saginaw Hospital, Michigan, from 2003 to 2009 and worked for CVX Laboratory in New York from 2009 to 2011. He has served in the North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, Long Island, New York, since 2011.
Besides Dr. Dhital’s service in the health sector, he has been involved in social service for nearly four decades. He was the founding member of the Association of Nepalese in Midwest America in 1982 and became president from 2003 to 2004. He was also the founding member of the Association of Nepalese in America (1982). He was a fellow at the American Society of Clinical Pathology and College of American Pathology, and a member of the Association of the Nepali Physicians in America.
Dr. Pradip Dhital: Legendry Intellectual from New York
