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Cleve is a General Practitioner. After an initial 4 months in Tansen in 1984, he returned with his family to Nepal in 1987 and worked as a GP with UMN in Amp Pipal Hospital, followed in 1992 by Patan Hospital, Kathmandu (where he was also involved in training GPs) until 1997. He joined the founding members of UMNHET as a trustee in 2000, and became Chairman of the Trust after Dr Bill Gould stepped down in 2008. He and Alison were able to visit all 4 UMN founded hospitals in October-November 2017, and were encouraged to see first-hand how the Trust helps the poor in each hospital. |
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Tim trained as an accountant in South Wales in the UK. He and his wife Caroline worked in Nepal from 1995 to 2003. For the large part of this time Tim was Finance Director of UMN based in Kathmandu. Since returning to the UK he has worked with a number of international charities. Tim became a Trustee and Treasurer of UMNHET in 2013. |
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Gary has been a UMNHET trustee since 2008. He worked with the United Mission to Nepal as a doctor in Amp Pipal and then Tansen Hospitals between 1989 and 1996 and then again in Tansen Hospital from 2015 to 2018. In between those times he was a GP in Hertfordshire for 18 years. |
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Alison trained originally as a nurse and midwife. She worked in Tansen as a nurse from July 1983 to April 1984. She and her husband Cleve then worked in Nepal from 1987 to 1997, first in Amp Pipal and then in Kathmandu. Alison’s role was mainly as wife, and mother to their growing family. She now works part time for a charity teaching Christianity in schools. Alison became a Trustee for UMNHET in 2016. |
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Katrina has been a trustee since 2018. She worked in Nepal, with UMN from 1997 to 2015, as a General Practitioner. The last 10 years were based in Patan hospital, Kathmandu, where she helped to support the GP department and train new doctors for rural Nepal. |
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Ian Chadwell is a Health Service Manager. He served in Nepal on two separate occasions. Between 1992 and 1996 he worked in the Health Services Office at UMN in Thapathali. In 2006 he returned to Nepal, holding various roles in HDCS, INF and finally with Nick Simons Institute. In this latter role he developed a programme to improve the management of district hospitals in the government sector. Having returned to the UK in summer 2018, Ian now works at The Dudley Group NHS Trust in a management role. |
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David lives in Northern Ireland where he has recently retired from his roles as an Associate Medical Director in a Health and Social Care Trust and from clinical practice as a General Practitioner. He first visited Nepal in 1986 as a medical student and then met his wife, Sandra, when he was visiting Tansen in 1990. They served together, with UMN, in Amp Pipal Hospital from 1995 to 2001. David was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of UMN in early 2019 and will travel to Nepal for meetings and project visits on a regular basis. |
Dr Cleve Chevassut MBBS MRCGP
Timothy Trimble BSc ACA
Dr Gary Parkes MBBS MRCGP
Alison Chevassut SRN SCM
Dr Katrina Butterworth MBBS MRCGP
Ian Chadwell MSc
Dr David Rodgers