About  Dr. Nirajan Mainali:

Dr. Nirajan Mainali is the Chairman at Pratham Pathology Laboratory Private Limited. Dr. Mainali has completed his schooling and higher secondary education from Siddhartha Vanasthali Institute. He has done his MBBS degree from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and MD in Pathology from BPKIHS, Dharan. He completed his clinical fellowship in Renal and transplantation pathology from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2019. He has worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology in Nobel Medical College prior to Joining Pratham Pathology lab. He has also attended various international courses and conferences in renal pathology like ANC-ANIO CNC program, 4th international renal pathology conference etc.

Dr. Mainali is also serving as a General Secretary of Association of Clinical Pathologist of Nepal (ACPN). He has published more than 15 scientific paper in both National and International peer-reviewed journals. His area of interest is native and transplant kidney biopsies.

EDUCATION:

Fellowship in Renal and transplant pathology, University of Alberta Hospital, Canada 

Clinical nephropathology certification program (January 2017-December2017) 

International lead assessor course (ISO 15189:2012): 

MD (Pathology): BPKIHS, Dharan Nepal 

MBBS Dhaka University, Bangladesh    

Past Affiliation:

Associate Professor: Nobel Medical college teaching hospital

Head of a Laboratory:  Nobel Medical college teaching hospital. 

Research Assistant: Cook County Hospital, Chicago, USA 

Awards and honors:

ISN fellowship grant, Canada 

ISN travel grant for poster presentation, World congress of Nephrology Abu Dhabi, 2020. 

Licensure:

Nepal Medical Council

Licentiate of College of Physician and Surgeon of Alberta, Canada

International Assessor, Academy of medical laboratory auditors (AMLA), India.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Life member- Nepal Medical Association (NMA)

Life member- Association of Clinical Pathologist of Nepal (ACPN)

Member-International Society of Nephrology (ISN)

Member- Renal pathology society (RPS), USA

Member-International Academy of Pathology (IAP)

PUBLICATIONS:

Mainali N, Sinha AK, Upadhaya P, Uprety D.A study on mast cell variation in neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease of uterine cervix. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2014) Vol. 4, 658-662.

Mainali N, Suwal RB, Patterns of lymphadenopathy on fine needle aspiration cytology in eastern Nepal. Journal of pathology of Nepal, 2015, vol 5(10), 814-816.

Nirajan Mainali, Neha Homagai, Pratap Sagar Tiwari, Arun Giri. A Comparative Study of Bone Marrow Aspiration and Bone Marrow Biopsy in Hematological Diseases. Journal of Nobel medical college.2015, Vol 4 (1), 12-14.

Mainali N, Nepal N, Choudhary P, Homagai N, Khanal B. Aspiration and non-aspiration technique in the study of thyroid gland lesion cytology. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2018) Vol. 8, 1257 -1260.

Mainali N, Chaudhary P , Nepal N, Shrestha J. Spectrum of Urothelial lesions in Cystoscopic biopsies: A Histopathological Perspective. . Journal of Nobel medical college.2018, Vol 7 (1), 6-10.

Mainali N, Homagai N, Nepal N, Choudhary P. A correlation study of cervical cytology on Papsmear with cervical biopsy in a tertiary hospital of Eastern Nepal. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2018) Vol. 8, 1389 -1392.

Mainali N, Nepal N, Chaudhary P, Shrestha J. Study on Correlation Between Serum Prostate Specific Antigen and Various Prostatic Pathology. Nepalese Medical Journal, (2018) Vol. 1, 70 -73.

Mainali N et al. Co-existence of gastric adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine carcinoma: a rare entity. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2017) Vol. 7, 1221 -1223.

Mainali N, Sinha A, Homagai N, Bhattarai M, Nathania Primitive neuroectodermal tumor of kidney: a case study. Nepal Med Coll J 2018; 20(1-3): 102-105.

Mainali N, Nepal N, Choudhary P, Uprety A. Tubercular Lymphadenitis Mimicking Findings of Metastatic Signet Cell Carcinoma in FNAC: A Case Report. Nepalese Medical Journal, (2019) Vol. 2, 191 - 193

PK Choudhary, N Nepal, N Mainali, B Meenakshi. Implementation of Bethesda system in thyroid aspirate: A cyto-histopathological correlation study. Journal of pathology of Nepal 2016, vol 6(11), 902-905.

N Nepal, PK Chaudhary, N Mainali. Histopathological analysis of endometrial biopsies in dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Journal of pathology of Nepal 2016, vol 6(11), 910-913.

Niraj Nepal, Prabesh Kumar Choudhary, Nirajan Mainali, Interpretation on coexistence or association of thrombocytopenia with malaria. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2019) Vol. 9, 1453-1956.

Choudhary PK, Nepal N, Mainali N, Meenakshi B. Implementation of Bethesda system in thyroid aspirate: A cyto-histopathological correlation study. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2016) Vol. 6, 902-905.

Choudhary P, Nepal N, Ghimire RH ,Mainali N, Diagnostic role of bronchoalveolar lavage: A Cyto histopathological correlation.  Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2019) Vol. 9, 1441-1444.

Choudhary P, Nepal N, Mainali N, Chhetri G. Diagnostic Role of Lymph node Imprint:

 A Cyto-histopathological Correlation. Nepalese Medical Journal, (2019) Vol. 2, 138 – 140.

Homagai N, Mainali N, Rijal S. Role of positive glucose challenge test only versus oral glucose tolerance test in pregnancy outcome: a comparative study. Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2019) Vol. 9, 1545-1449.

Bibhuti Nath Mishra, Rishi Ram Poudel, Anuja Jha, Nirajan Mainali, Manoj Bhattarai. Rheumatoid subacromial-subdeltoid bursitis with rice bodies: A case report. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma. Volume 10, Issue 3, May–June 2019, Pages 514-517

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:

Poster presentation:

Co-existence of gastric adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine carcinoma in a partial gastrectomy specimen: a rare entity. Done in 4th SAARC academy of cytopathology and histopathology conference September 16-18, 2016.

Current Leprosy and Cutaneous Tuberculosis: A three case series report scientific session (28th-30th) Aug. 2011, BPKIHS

Mixed germ cell tumor with foci of Gonadoblastoma. (A rare case report) Scientific Session (5th-7th) Sept., 2010, BPKIHS

Monoclonal IgA Nephropathy with lattice like para-crystalline deposits in an electron microscopy: A rare finding. Nirajan Mainali, Kim Solez, Puja Dhungana (accepted for poster presentation in World congress of nephrology in 2020, Dubai).

Antinuclear antibody negative lupus like nephritis. A five-case series report. Nirajan Mainali, Kim Solez, Michel Mengel, Benjamin Adam. (accepted for poster presentation in World congress of nephrology in 2020, Dubai).

Oral presentation:

A Study on Mast cell variation in Non- Neoplastic and Neoplastic lesion of Uterine Cervix Scientific session (28th-30th) August2011, BPKIHS.