Keshab Paudel, MD, MBA, FACP, SFHM, system medical director for hospitalist program, has served as the associate Lovelace Health System medical director for HPP/Schumacher Group since 2014. He holds an MD and an MBA, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM) from the Society of Hospital Medicine, and a diplomat from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Throughout his career, he has earned recognition for improving quality in both clinical works and physician-patient communications.
Previous to his time with Lovelace, Dr. Paudel served 12 years as a clinic doctor, university professor, hospitalist physician and program medical director at Lovelace Westside Hospital and Heart Hospital of New Mexico at Lovelace Medical Center. Following a residency at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, Dr. Paudel served as core faculty in the internal medicine residency program at United Health Services in Johnson City, New York. He completed a bioinformatics fellowship at the National Library of Medicine in Woods Hole, Mass., and a master of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He completed medical school at Tribhuvan University Medical School in Nepal.
In his time at United Health Services Hospitals from 2010-2013, Dr. Paudel led a number of successful initiatives, from implementing new treatment programs and rounding models to mentoring residents, students and hospitalist physicians. He has also devoted his spare time to social and volunteer activities, including leading a team of physicians to Nepal in 2015 to treat victims of a massive earthquake there.