Discipline is more important than the desire to succeed in life. Shyam D. Karki is an exceptional human being who has invested much of his time, discipline, and effort into his work to rise as one of the most successful names in the pharmaceutical field.
Shayam D. Karki received his Bachelor of Pharmacy from American University of Beirut, Lebanon; his Master of Arts in economics from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; and his PharmD from the School of Pharmacy, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He was certified as a geriatric pharmacist by the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy and received a Management Training Certificate from the Department of Administration of HMG NEPAL. Moreover, he was certified in anticoagulation therapy management from Indiana University.
Karki served as the pharmacy department director at Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland and Adventist Behavioral Wellness Services, Rockville, MD, from 2015 to 2017. He was an onsite clinical pharmacist at Levindale Geriatric Hospital, Baltimore, MD, from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he was the pharmacy department director at the Specialty Hospital of Washington, DC, Capitol Hill, from 2011 to 2014.
In addition to serving at different hospitals in managing and directing roles, Karki has made significant contributions in pushing the boundaries of human knowledge through his research activities. He has presented more than fifty posters at the annual meetings of professional societies and published more than twenty-five research papers in professional peer-reviewed journals. He has been an abstract reviewer for ACCP, ASCP, and ISPOR. He has made more than one hundred presentations on issues relating to pharmacotherapy and pharmacoeconomics to a different pharmacy, nursing, and medical organizations and more than three hundred routine presentations (weekly forty-five-minute programs) on medications to the pharmacy and medical students, medical residents, and geriatric fellows at hospitals.
Karki is an adjunct associate professor at the School of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, DC. He is a preceptor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. He was the chairman of the Performance Evaluation Committee, Pharm-Health Infusion Inc, Rochester, NY, from 1993 to 1997. He served as the Geriatric Pharmacy Consultant at the Jewish Home of Rochester, NY, from 1995 to 2004. He was the coordinator of clinical research & education at Unity Health System, Rochester, NY, from 1995 to 1999. He is the founder and life member of the Nepal Pharmaceutical Association (NPA).
Mr. Karki has been honored with multiple awards to acknowledge his contributions to society. He is the recipient of the Roerig Pharmacy Award for excellence in research in drug use in long-term care facilities in 1993, provided by the New York Council of Hospital Pharmacists. He was elected to a fellowship at the American College of Clinical Pharmacy in 2000. He was presented with a Recognition Award for professional achievement. He sustained service to Nepali and Nepali communities in North America by His Majesty the King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 2003. Though the awards are prestigious, the biggest honor for this great figure is the gratefulness for all the lives he has touched
Dr. Shyam Karki: Reputed Clinician and Social Hero from Baltimore
