A medical doctor by profession, Dr. Chataut lives multi-dimensional life at the same time.
Born in the Dadeldhura District of the Mahakali Zone, Nepal, Dr. Chataut completed his formal education at Ananda Kuti High School, Kathmandu, and his Intermediate in Science (ISc), from a prestigious government college, Amrit Science Campus, Kathmandu. Then he achieved a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB BS) degree from Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1987. He earned an MD with a Residency in Internal Medicine and Nephrology from the Institute of Postgrad Med & Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1995.
As a medical doctor, he served the motherland, saving lives in a country where most people do not have access to health services. Dr. Chataut worked consecutively at two leading government hospitals in Kathmandu: TU Teaching Hospital and Bir Hospital.
He moved to the USA in 1998 and began his residency in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, in 2001. Dr. Chataut’s yearning for higher education led him to earn another degree in the USA, an MS in clinical research from Rush University, Chicago, in 2008.
Since then, he has been working as an assistant professor of medicine at Rush University, Chicago, IL, and is an active member of the American College of Physicians (ACP).
Dr. Chataut completed an Authentic Leadership Development course conducted by the American Association for Physician Leadership, Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2015. He also trained with the Ward Attending Scholars Program (WASP), a multimodal, collaborative faculty development program for teaching attending physicians at Stroger Hospital, Department of Medicine, Chicago, in 2014. He participated in workshops on student teaching at Rush University, Chicago, IL.
Since July 2017, Dr. Chataut has worked as a doctor and lecturer. He has been the attending hospitalist at the Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM), Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago. His work includes supervising and teaching resident physicians in the Internal Medicine Ward and Medicine Consult Service and supervising and teaching third- and fourth-year medical students in a medicine inpatient rotation.
Previously, he worked as a general internist at the Division of General Internal Medicine, Stroger Hospital, Chicago. There he was responsible for providing direct patient care with dignified professionalism in primary care, urgent care, and the medicine consult clinic from November 2001 to July 2014. During the job, he attended the Physician for Inpatient Medicine Ward and Medicine Consult Service and supervised resident physicians and students.
He also has been working as a resident physician lecturer during ward rotation and medical consult rotation and conducted clinical workshops for resident physicians at the General Medicine Clinic (GMC).
He received a dozen awards and grants for the extraordinary task he fulfilled, including the Department of Medicine Student Education Award from John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, in two consecutive years, as well as others.
Despite all his responsibility, Dr. Chataut proved himself as a successful administrator and published several research papers, as well as managed to make time for community service. He is the founding board member of Nirogi Nepal, an online portal aimed at health literacy; a life member and board member of the America Nepal Medical Foundation since 2017; and an active participant in earthquake relief in Nepal, participating in medical camps and public health projects in earthquake-affected villages in Nepal in June 2015.
In 2015 he conducted health information awareness workshops for the Nepalese community in collaboration with the Non-Resident Nepali Association, Chicago. He has provided health education services to the Nepalese and Bangladeshi communities in the Chicagoland area since 1998.
Dr. Chataut is a multidimensional person who walks different lives simultaneously.
Dr. Chandra Prakash Chataut: Well-Renowned Clinician from Chicago
