Expedition Launch: September 2027
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Organizers
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, PhD
Lead Organizer
Dr. Martha Tissot van Patot is a cardiovascular pulmonary physiologist and former associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, researching how high altitude affects pregnancy and placental development. Through a visiting professorship at Oxford, she investigated 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 served as Deputy Team Leader on the historic Nepal Women's Expedition to Everest, led by Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest, and founded Luxury DMC, a Kathmandu-based mountaineering and tourism company.
Silviya Chaulagain, MSc
Scientific and Communications Organizer Nepal
Silviya 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 founder of Target Health Nepal and brings both scientific expertise and deep community connections to ISHARE's work in Nepal.
Shalynn Howard, MPH, MA
Program and Operations Organizer
Shalynn Howard is a public health researcher with 15 years of experience managing research at the University of Washington, Seattle Children's, and Johns Hopkins. A passionate climber and hiker, she is deeply committed to women's health, and she brings her expertise in program operations and stakeholder engagement to ISHARE.
Eighteen invited investigators, seventeen projects, recruited and coordinated for the expedition.
An international board of climbers, physicians, and scientists advises the expedition, including leading hypoxia and EPO expert Max Gassmann, DVM, PhD.
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$50 funds one field repair kit for tents, sleeping bags, and gear. $10,000 covers expedition costs for one Nepali research assistant.