Dr. Umid Kumar Shrestha is a Principal Consultant and the Head in the department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Endoscopy at Nepal Mediciti. He has done his MBBS from Rajshahi University, MD in Internal Medicine from Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, completed his PhD in Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Wuhan University School of Medicine and received Fellowship from American College of Gastroenterology (FACG).

He was a Berenson Scholar in Advanced Endoscopy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital at Boston, USA.

Previously he was working as a Chief in the Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology at Kaski Sewa Hospital and Research Center and at Paschimanchal Community Hospital. He was also the Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Internal Medicine II and Division of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara.