Expedition Launch: September 2027
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Meet the Team
The scientists, mountaineers, and organizers behind ISHARE come from around the world, united by a shared commitment to women's health and high-altitude research.
Published Research
Meet the team through their work.
Monika Brodmann Maeder, MD, MME
Lead Organizer
Dr. Monika Brodmann Maeder is an emergency physician and mountain medicine educator at ETH Zurich, and the first female president of the International Society of Mountain Medicine. In 2011 she led the Sisters' Expedition to Dhaulagiri VII — the predecessor to ISHARE — after fourteen years as an alpine emergency physician with REGA Swiss Air Rescue.
Linda Keyes, MD
Lead Organizer
Dr. Linda Keyes is a board-certified emergency physician, Vice President of the International Society of Mountain Medicine, and past President of the Wilderness Medical Society. Since medical school at Yale, she has researched the effects of high altitude on the human body across five continents, working to close the gender gap in high-altitude medicine.
Martha Tissot van Patot, Ph.D.
Lead Organizer
Dr. Martha Tissot van Patot is a cardiovascular pulmonary physiologist and former associate professor at the University of Colorado Medical School, researching how high altitude affects pregnancy and placental development. Through a visiting professorship at Oxford, she discovered the pioneering work of Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald and is now writing her biography — extending Mabel's century-old research through ISHARE.
Lhakpa Phuti Sherpa
Expedition Organizer
Lhakpa Phuti Sherpa is a mountaineer, philanthropist, and tourism professional with decades of experience in Himalayan expeditions. She was Deputy Team Leader of the historic Nepal Women's Expedition to Everest, led by Pasang Lhamu Sherpa — the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest — and is founder of Luxury DMC, a Kathmandu-based mountaineering and tourism company.
Silvia Chaulagain, MSc
Scientific and Communications Organizer Nepal
Silvia Chaulagain is a public health researcher specializing in women's sexual and reproductive health in Nepal. An MCW Global Fellow and Chevening Scholar completing her MSc in Public Health at the University of Southampton, she is the former founder of Target Health Nepal and brings both scientific expertise and deep community connections to ISHARE's work in Nepal.
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