Academic Structure

Name: Dr. Gopinath N. Shenoy
Qualifications: MD, DGO,DFP,FCPS,LLB,LLM,PhD
Designation: Medico-legal consultant
Areas of Expertise: Medico-legal consultation, Criminology. He has authored two books on Medical Negligence. He has over 14 original research work and teaches Indian Penal Code, the Consumer Protection Act and Criminology at Law Colleges in Mumbai. He was also judge of the Consumer Court, Mumbai, Govt. Of Maharashtra.
Current Profile:  He is a practicing Obstetrician and a Gynecologist and a Medico-legal consultant who exclusively appears for the doctors in the consumer courts all over India.

Name: Dr. Nikhil Datar
Qualifications: MD, DNB , LLB, DHA, PGDMLS
Designation: Medico Legal Consultant
Areas of Expertise: Gynaecology, Medico Legal consultation, Health Rights Activist, Patient Safety, Founder President: Patient Safety Alliance, Chairman: Medico legal Cell of Medical Consultants, Member Managing Council: Mumbai Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society, Member: Medico Legal Cell, FOGSI.
Current Profile: Practicing Gynaecologist since 15 years and Medico Legal Consultant.

Name: Dr. Sanjay Gupte
Qualifications: MD, LLB
Designation:  Director, Gupte Hospital, Pune
Areas of Expertise: He was President of Federation of Obstetric & Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI -2010) & Honorary Professor and Post Graduate teacher at B.J. Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune. President - DIPSI 2013 (DIABETES IN PREGNANCY STUDY GROUP – INDIA) & National Consultant in Medico-legal and ethical Issues in Obst and Gynec. He has published more than 60 national & international research papers, has written books and honoured as Secretary General of World Gestosis Organization. He has been awarded FRCOG (Honoris causa) by the Royal College, London in 2010.
Current Profile: Director, Gupte Hospital, Pune.

Name: Dr. Santosh Kakade
Qualifications: MS (Surg), D. Ortho, FICS, LLM, MBA (Hospital Management), PhD
Designation:  -
Areas of Expertise: General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Medico Legal issues &Hospital Management. He has extensive experience in Trauma care surgery and is the Fellow of International College of Surgeons-Indian section.
Current Profile: :As a hospital management expert, he is leading the development of a green field hospital in Pune.

Name: Dr. Nilima Kadambi
Qualifications: MBBS, MS, MCh, PGDMLS, PGDHHM
Designation: Member of the Advisory Board of Symbiosis Centre of Health Care & Chief Wellbeing Officer at UDG group of companies.
Areas of Expertise: Experienced pediatric surgeon and health insurance professional, has travelled and worked in India and abroad in senior leadership roles. She has published extensively and is a regular speaker in national and international conferences.
Current Profile:  Independent Consultant for Healthcare & Health Insurance, Member of the Advisory Board of Symbiosis Centre of Health Care & visiting faculty Symbiosis International University, Pune.

Name:  Mr. Vivek Kumar Sharma
Qualifications: MMS
Designation: Advisor, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and IMS Health India.
Areas of Expertise: Extensive understanding of healthcare delivery and financing in India and other markets, very specialized and detailed knowledge of key insurance and care delivery processes.
Current Profile:  Advisor at LexisNexis Risk Solutions and IMS Health India, focus areas are contributory databases, insurance fraud detection solutions, payors solutions, including healthcare utilization & cost trends, beneficiary awareness communication and service level benchmarks.

Name: Prof. Rohit Kumar
Qualifications: MBA, PhD, FIIIM, ACII, CRIM
Designation: GM, Max Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited
Areas of Expertise: Certified Risk and Insurance Manager, Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India and associate member of the Chartered Insurance Institute,UK. He is Blessed with varied experience in the insurance sector.
Current Profile: As an Assistant Professor (Strategic Management Area) at Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi.

Name: Mr. Rajnish Sharma
Qualifications: MBA, LLB, PGPM
Designation: Managing Director, MD India Healthcare Services (TPA) Private Limited
Areas of Expertise: Veteran of insurance sector with more than twenty years of experience in franchisee network setup, operational management of large and distributed workforce. Closely associated with American Self-Funded Insurance Groups and trained at National Insurance Academy, Pune.
Current Profile:  He is the Managing Director of MD India Healthcare Services (TPA) Private sLimited, a leading health insurance TPA.

Name: Dr. Shivani Sarwal
Qualifications: MBBS, Associate: Insurance Institute of India
Designation: Senior Underwriting Consultant, Swiss Re Services India Private Limited
Areas of Expertise: She has over 10 years of experience with various insurance companies in underwriting department and worked extensively as a trainer.
Current Profile: Advising Swiss Re Services India Private Limited regarding insurance underwriting portfolio.

Name:  Dr.B.S.Powdwal
Qualifications: MS, MBA, MSASMS, MAIMS, FIAGES, FASI, Six Sigma Black Belt
Designation: Consultant, Ex Vice President Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Private Limited
Areas of Expertise: Life and non-life insurance, Claims and risk management, Fraud detection, Underwriting.
Current Profile: After wide ranging experience as a surgeon, Dr Powdwal has worked in life and non-life insurance industry in India for more than two decades. He is also faculty in Symbiosis International University and National Insurance Academy.

Name: Dr. Uday Harle
Qualifications: MPharm, PhD, FICR, PGDIM, PGDMM
Designation: Sr. Manager - Clinical Research Dept.
Areas of Expertise: A Ph.D. in Pharmacology Dr. Harle has more than fifteen years of experience in pharmaceutical companies. His core expertise is conduction of clinical trials and regulatory affairs. He is recipient of many research awards and fellowships. He is also a mentor for doctoral work in many universities.
Current Profile: Sr. Manager - Clinical Research working experience in every area of Clinical research (monitoring, medical writing, Project management, biometrics, etc.).

Name: Dr. Vishwas Sovani
Qualifications: MBBS, MD (Pharmacology)
Designation: Senior Advisor, Pharmawisdom, Pune
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Sovani has 30 years of experience in pharma industry which includes domains like clinical research, regulatory affairs, pharmaco- vigilance, biostatistics, clinical data management and medical writing.
Current Profile:  Advising pharma companies in the areas of clinical research and regulatory compliance.

Name:  Mrs. Vaishali Deshpande
Qualifications:  M.Sc, DCR
Designation: Independent Consultant and Trainer in Clinical Research and Body Composition.
Areas of Expertise: Worked as research officer on various projects with specialization in adult as well as neonatal anthropometry. Worked as Clinical Trial Coordinator on various clinical trials. She is visiting faculty for clinical research at many institutes. Having more than 12 years of experience at KEM hospital, Pune, she has several published papers to her credit in scientific journals. She is Secretary of ‘Ethical Research Initiatives’, Pune.
Current Profile: Independent Consultant and Trainer in Clinical Research and research ethics.

Name: Dr. Anjali Joglekar
Qualifications: MBBS
Designation: Research Scientist at National AIDS Research Institute, Pune.
Areas of Expertise:  Dr. Joglekar has extensive experience in the field of clinical research for more than 29 years with leading institutions. She has a number of publications and has presented papers in national and international conferences. She has worked as Co-Investigator in many clinical trials.
Current Profile:  Currently she is working as a research scientist at National AIDS Research Institute, Pune working on various trials.

Name: Dr. Nimita Limaye
Qualifications: PhD (Biotechnology)
Designation: VP, CDM, Medical Writing and Risk Based Monitoring Tata Consultancy Services.
Areas of Expertise: With over 12 years of experience in the industry in the area of regulatory affairs, pharmaco-vigilance and medical writing Dr. Limaye has. the unique distinction of being the first ‘Certified Clinical Data Manager’ of the ‘Society of Clinical Data Management, from India and is currently on their certification committee as well. She has presented on diverse topics, including ‘Data Management Audit's, ‘E-Clinical and ‘Recent Trends in the CDM industry. She has several publications to her credit.
Current Profile: Leading and developing the portfolio of clinical data management, medical Writing and risk based monitoring at Tata Consultancy Services.

Name:  Dr. Sundeep S. Salvi
Qualifications: MBBS, DTCD, DNB, MD (Medicine), Ph.D. (Clinical Medicine)
Designation: Director, Chest Research Foundation, Pune
Areas of Expertise: He is a recipient of several national and international orations and awards and honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, London, a visiting faculty at the Johns Hopkins University, USA and a PhD guide at the University of Pune and Symbiosis International University (SIU). Dr. Salvi has published over 125 research papers in peer reviewed medical journals and has also contributed to several book chapters. He sits on the editorial board of several national and international journals and mentors research at Faculty of Health and Biomedical Science of SIU.
Current Profile: He is currently director of ‘Chest Research Foundation’, Pune and leading capacity building initiatives and research in the areas of respiratory diseases.

Name: Dr. Shreekant Sapatnekar
Qualifications: MD (Internal Medicine), MD (Community Medicine), DIH, DPH, DIM
Designation: CEO of Savishree Consultants at Mumbai, India.
Areas of Expertise: Dr. Sapatnekar has a track record of over 40 years in clinical medicine, research and education. Earlier he was Director of Haffkine Institute and member of National Advisory Committee for Bioethics Education & Administrator for Maharashtra Medical Council. Biostatistics & Epidemiology have been his favourite topics as a Professor of Community Medicine.
Current Profile:  Currently he is the CEO of Savishree Consultants at Mumbai, India.

Name: Dr. Sharvaree Shuka
Qualifications: BSc (Statistics), MSc (Biostatistics), PhD
Designation: Consultant
Areas of Expertise: Clinical Research, Statistics, Bio-statistics
Current Profile: She is working with Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg, Germany as a statistical consultant and also collaborates with University of Cologne within a project to design a blueprint for urban disease surveillance for Pune, India.

Name: Prof. Sanjay Zodpey
Qualifications: MBBS, MD, PhD (Preventive and Social Medicine)
Designation: Vice President (North) and Director, Public Health Education, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi and also holds leadership position as Director at Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi.
Areas of Expertise: Dr. He has acquired post-graduate qualifications in sociology, public administration and economics from Nagpur University. Prof. Zodpey has been involved in several major national and international research initiatives which have contributed significantly to the field of public health. He is the editor of Indian Journal of Public Health and associate editor of Frontiers in Public Health Education and Promotion. He also serves as member of editorial board for 18 peer-reviewed journals.
Current Profile: Prof. Sanjay Zodpey presently works as Vice President (North) and Director, Public Health Education, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi and also holds leadership position as Director at Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi.

Name: Col Dr SKM Rao (Retd)
Qualifications: MBBS, MD, PGDHRM, Principal NABH Assessor
Area of Expertise: Planning and Accreditation of hospitals, Operations’ Management
Current Profile: Having 30 years of managerial experience in healthcare including 25 years in Indian Army, Dr. Rao is currently working as Group COO, Sahyadri Hospitals Limited. He is also a faculty in University of Pune, IGNOU & AIIMS (New Delhi).

Name: Mr. Suresh Sovani
Qualifications: ME, MBA, Principal NABH Assessor
Areas of Expertise: Certification, Accreditation, Product design and Management
Current Profile:  An expert in the fields of quality management, presently, Mr. Sovani is Director at Healthcare Quality Systems, Pune and Consultant to hospitals, medical laboratories for NABH accreditation & ISO certification.

Name:  Ms. Meenakshi Gijare
Qualifications: MSc Nursing, MBA, MPhil, Principal NABH Assessor
Areas of Expertise:  Quality Management, Nursing Management and Academics
Current Profile:  Presently, Ms. Gijare is holding the leadership position of Nursing Superintendent at VishwaRaj Hospital, Pune. She has extensive experience of working in varied verticals of healthcare sector in academics, nursing care and administration.

Name:  Dr. Rajiv Kumar
Qualifications: MBBS, PGDHM, Principal NABH Assessor
Areas of Expertise:  Medicine, Research, Hospital Management and Training
Current Profile: A well-known patient safety expert with proficiency in strategic & operational management, Dr. Rajiv Kumar currently holds the position of Head- Quality, Accreditation, Patient Safety & Excellence at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute, Mumbai.

Name:  Dr. Vikram Kashyap
Qualifications: MBBS, MS, FICS, FIAMS, FAIS, Principal NABH assessor, Lead auditor: ISO 9001
Areas of Expertise: Neurology, Quality Management and Academics
Current Profile: Dr. Kashyap currently practices neurosurgery and is a consultant to numerous hospitals in Bangaluru. Adept in knowledge of principles of quality, he is involved in development and designing various courses in Healthcare Management.

Name: Dr. Nikhil Datar
Qualifications: MD, DNB, FCPS, FICOG, LLB, DGO, DHA
Areas of Expertise: Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Medico-legal Systems and Academics
Current Profile:  Along with being a consultant gyneacologist at various hospitals, Dr. Nikhil Datar is Founder President of Patient Safety Alliance, an NGO that works on empowering patients and supporting health care professionals to prevent medical errors.

Name: Dr. B K Rana
Qualifications: MSc, PhD
Areas of Expertise: Quality Management and Accreditation
Current Profile: Elected Vice- Chairman of the prestigious Accreditation Council of International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), Dr. Rana has been an integral part in establishing Asian Society for Quality in Healthcare (ASQua). Presently, Dr. B.K. Rana is the Deputy Director of National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH), Quality Council of India.

Name: Ms. Arvind Wadhwa
Qualifications: MSc, MSc (USA)
Designation: Former Associate Professor, Lady Irwin College, Delhi
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition, Research, Community Nutrition
Current Profile: During a glorious teaching career spanning over four decades, she was involved in teaching both undergraduate and post graduate students and leading research projects from various agencies. She is currently in to consulting and advisory role.

Name: Ms. Devaki Gokhale
Qualifications: MSc, UGC-NET, PhD (R)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Pune
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition counselling, Nutrigenomics, Teaching and Research.
Current Profile: Having around four years of experience in the field, she is involved in the evaluation of project work & teaching post graduate students. Ms. Devaki is also a Certified Diabetes Educator and Nutrigenomics Counsellor.

Name: Ms. Harshada Thakur
Qualifications: MSc, PhD (R)
Designation: UGC Junior Research Fellow, Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Pune
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition counselling, Teaching and Research
Current Profile:  With around seven years of working experience in clinical settings, Ms. Harshada Thakur is a Registered Dietitian and certified Diabetes Educator. Currently she is involved in teaching, and training graduate and post graduate students.

Name: Dr. Kalyani Singh
Qualifications: MSc, PhD
Designation: Associate Professor, Lady Irwin College, Delhi
Areas of Expertise: Therapeutic & Clinical Nutrition, Teaching, Research, Capacity building
Current Profile: Dr. Kalyani Singh is a well-known academician and researcher with twenty five years of experience. As an expert in the arena of Clinical Nutrition, she is actively involved in capacity building, designing curriculum, teaching and guiding PhD and masters students. She brings eight years of experience, as a dietician at Christian Medical College and renders her expertise as examiner and paper setter for various universities.

Name: Dr. Kejal Joshi Reddy
Qualifications: MSc, PhD
Designation: Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Pune
Areas of Expertise: Teaching, Research, Community Nutrition
Current Profile: With more than four years of experience in clinical and community nutrition, she is involved in teaching and guiding post graduate students. Dr. Kejal is also active in organizing & conducting nutrition awareness camps.

Name:  Dr. Kumud Khanna
Qualifications:  MSc, PhD
Designation:  Former Director of the Institute of Home Economics, Delhi
Areas of Expertise: Therapeutic & Clinical Nutrition, Teaching and Research
Current Profile: After an illustrious teaching career spanning over four decades, Dr. Kumud Khanna has retired as Director Institute of Home Economics, Delhi University. During her tenure she was involved in capacity building, developing interdisciplinary, innovative Programmes for graduate and post graduate students and has guided 35 MSc dissertations and around 20 PhD scholars. She is currently in to consulting and advisory role.

Name: Dr. Priyanka Pareek
Qualifications: MSc, PhD
Designation:  -
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition, Diet Counselling, Teaching and Research
Current Profile: With around 7 years of experience in various educational institutes across India, Dr. Priyanka Pareek apart from teaching is also involved in assessing, evaluating the master’s level students & supervising MSc /PhD research dissertations. In addition to actively coordinating and conducting nutrition education Programmes, she is also engaged in outreach activities targeted for diabetics.

Name: Ms. Radhika Hedaoo
Qualifications: MSc, UGC-NET, PhD (R)
Designation: Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School of Biomedical Sciences, Pune
Areas of Expertise: Diet counselling, Teaching and Research
Current Profile: Ms. Radhika Hedaoo has around four years of experience and is mainly involved in teaching and training post graduate students. She is equally active in conducting nutrition education Programmes for pregnant, lactating mothers and counselling children to promote healthy eating habits.

Name: Dr. Seema Puri
Qualifications: MSc, PhD
Designation: Associate Professor, Institute of Home Economics, Delhi
Areas of Expertise:  Pediatric & Geriatric nutrition, Teaching & Research
Current Profile: With over three decades of experience, Dr. Puri is an acclaimed academician and researcher with active involvement in capacity building, strategic planning & decision making of various nutrition Programmes and teaching and guiding PhD and masters students. Dr. Puri is also National Vice President of the Indian Dietetics Association.

Name: Dr. Umesh Kapil
Qualifications: MD, DNB
Designation: Professor, Public Health Nutrition, AIIMS, New Delhi
Areas of Expertise:  Community medicine, Public health nutrition, Maternal and Child health, Research and Teaching
Current Profile: Dr. Umesh Kapil has extensive experience in the field of Community Health & Nutrition. Apart from teaching and guiding post graduate and doctoral students, he also leads numerous funded research and demonstration projects. As an academician and educationist par excellence, he is actively involved in capacity building, designing strategies & policies for various state governments and Government of India, Ministries of Health and Family Welfare, Human Resource Development and Industry, National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research, Planning Commission, universities, professional organizations & international agencies like UNICEF, WHO and FAO.

Name: Mr.Abhik Moitra
Qualifications: PGDBM, Honours Diploma in Sales and Marketing
Designation: Director and Co- founder of HBG Medical Assistance Private Limited
Areas of Expertise: Customer service and product development, Medical Tourism
Current Profile: Under his able guidance, HBG has emerged as one of the largest medical assistance and leading medical value travel and trusted channel partner of leading hospitals in India.

Name: Mr. Dhananjay Bapat
Qualifications: BE, MBA
Designation:  Founder Director, Equatorial Group of companies
Areas of Expertise: Teaching, International Marketing, Global Strategic Management
Current Profile:  As an academician, he is actively engaged in conducting training Programmes for corporate executives in the areas of international business, strategic sourcing, strategic alliances and integration, and key account management.

Name:  Dr. Prakash Doke
Qualifications: MBBS, DNB, MD, PhD
Designation:  Professor, Department of Community Medicine, BVDU Medical College, Pune
Areas of Expertise: With extensive experience of leadership positions in public health department of Government of Maharashtra and State Health Systems Resource Centre as Director, he is actively engaged in consultancy, teaching and guiding post graduate and doctoral students in the arena of epidemiology and public health.
Current Profile:  -

Name: Dr. Prem Jagyasi
Qualifications: ChC, MBA, PGDHMM (Symbiosis)
Designation: MD & CEO: Dr. Prem & Associates
Areas of Expertise:  Global healthcare, project and Programme management, Medical Tourism
Current Profile: He is providing independent consultancy services, social media influencer and trainings to various governments and large healthcare organizations and investors.

Name:  Ms. Shivali Lawale
Qualifications: MA, MPhil
Designation: Director, Symbiosis School of International Studies, Symbiosis International University
Areas of Expertise: International studies, teaching and research
Current Profile: As an academician, she is leading the platform for teaching and research in international relations with emphasis on India and its role in global affairs.

Name: Dr. Sunil Upadhyaya
Qualifications: MA, MPhil, BTM, PGDTTM, PhD
Designation: Assistant Professor in Manyawar Kanshiram Institute of Tourism Management, Lucknow.
Areas of Expertise: Tourism management and teaching.
Current Profile:  With wide ranging front line experience of travel and tourism industry, he is involved in teaching, training and research.

Name: Mr. Vishal Laroia
Qualifications: MBA
Designation: Founder and CEO, Global Medical Solutions
Areas of Expertise: Medical travel, Hospital marketing consultancy, pharmaceuticals.
Current Profile: He is working on multiple projects in hospital management and medical travel across the globe.

Name: Dr. Aditi Pusalkar Apte
Qualifications: MBBS, MD Pharmacology.
  Area of expertise:  Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance.
Current Profile: Research Consultant, KEM Hospital Research Centre, Pune. She has an experience of around a decade in the area of clinical research. Dr. Aditi is a proficient trainer and an expert in medical review.

Name: Dr. Shraddha Bhange
Qualifications:MBBS, MBA (HM), M.Sc. Biomedical Technology
  Area of expertise:  Content writing, quality assurance, signal detection and signal evaluation activities for assigned products, development of safety reports & risk management plan, internal audits, health authority inspection.
Current Profile: Pharmacovigilance expert at Novartis Healthcare Private Limited. She is on editorial board of International Journal of Clinical Trials. A self-motivated leader represented Health and Life Science faculty in the Coventry University, UK. She is a proactive blogger on topics related to medicines.

Name:  Dr. Ganesh Uchit
Qualifications: MBBS, MD (Clinical Pharmacology)
Areas of Expertise:  Protocol development, expertise in women’s health, urology, critical care, neuroscience and more.
Current Profile:  Therapy Lead, medical division of Pfizer. He is an accomplished trainer on topics of Good Clinical Practices guidelines and.regulatory processes at global level. He worked in regional center for “National Pharmacovigilance Program” of India for three years. A hard-core academician; has seven publications in different journals.

Name:  Dr. Srikanth J V
Qualifications:  MBBS
Designation:  Cognizant Technology Solutions in Medical Safety Activity
Areas of Expertise:  Training in the area of clinical research, safety surveillance, content writer; medical reports. Acclaimed for international training session on authoring aggregate reports and risk management plans.
Current Profile: Associated with Cognizant Technology Solutions. Successful entrepreneur; runs efficiently his own KPO.

Name:  Dr. Ujwala Rajeev Naik
Qualifications: MBBS
Designation:  Cognizant Technology Solutions in Medical Safety Activity
Areas of Expertise:  Extensive experience of 12 years in the area of medical review of ICSRs, PSURs, PADERs and in signal detection, aggregate report writing, causality assessment, clinical trial protocol review. Expert in regulations of pharmacovigilance and ICH guidelines and has implemented the same in various profiles.
Current Profile: Cross Sector Country Safety Head-India Cluster Johnson and Johnson Consumer and Pharma division. She confidently leads Cross Sector safety team that includes pharmaceuticals as well as consumer product portfolio. She is an energetic member of Maharashtra Medical Council and Indian Society of Clinical Research.

Name:  Dr. Milind Sardesai
Qualifications:  MBBS, MHSc, PGDCR
Areas of Expertise:  Having over 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical companies and CROs. Expertise involved medical writing, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs and business operations.
Current Profile: Currently he is working, as General Manager Operations, Cognizant Technology Solutions. Dr. Milind Sardesai is involved in monitoring the safety of globally marketed products, as well as products in development phases. He has gained hands on experience in case processing, aggregate reporting (DSUR,PSUR, PBRER), signal detection (Qualitative & Quantitative) and risk management (RMP & Updates) within the domain of pharmacovigilance. Apart from delivering presentations in various national and international fore, he has extensively contributed in authoring complex clinical and medical documents for global clinical submissions and marketing support.

Name:  Dr. Madhura Nene
Qualifications: MBBS
Areas of Expertise:  Clinical research, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis.
Current Profile: She is an independent consultant, on different clinical research projects and is based in Pune, India. In her stint of six years, she epitomized her leadership qualities in the capacity of ‘Research Physician’ on various national and international projects at National AIDS Research Institute (ICMR). She was director, Quintiles, medical data review and played a pivotal role in establishing the department at a reputed clinical research industry. She has successfully led clinical trials, post-marketing programs, focusing on drug safety and medical data review across different therapeutic areas.

Name:  Garun Yadav
Qualifications: MBA in Healthcare Management, PGDCR
Areas of Expertise:  Clinical data management, proficient in niche areas of document creation, user acceptance testing, database testing, SAE reconciliation, query management and more.
Current Profile: Assistant Manager-CDM at Inventive International Pharma Services Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India. An excellant team leader, he has proven abilities of bridging performance gaps to complete buisness interest, developing process improvement initiatives and translating complex concepts to simpler form. Mr. Yadav has experience in theuapeutic areas such as oncology, hematology, infant nutrition along with recruitments, budgeting, human resource management. He has been recognised with many awards in most of the organizations worked so far for his contributions.

Name:  Dr. Naveen Chhabra
Qualifications: MBBS, MD (Pharmacology)
Areas of Expertise:  A gold medalist physician with an extensive experience in clinical trials and pharmacovigilance authored and reviewed aggregate safety reports. He has expertise in core areas includes training, ICH-GCP guidelines, medical writing, designing risk management plans.
Current Profile: He is holding position of Lead- Medical Reviewer at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Having excellent communication skills, he has proven his ability to work within regulatory & client specified framework. He has mentored many aspirants to achieve excellence in medical writing. Dr. Chhabra has several publications to his credit in national and international journals.

Name:  Dr. Purushottam Surti
Qualifications: MBBS, PGDBM
Areas of Expertise:  Clinical research, Data management, Biostatistics and Programming
Current Profile: Director, Clinical Data Management at Oncorx Pharma Pvt Ltd (a subsidiary of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, USA) he is having key role in development of several molecules. He has an extensive experience of around two decades in the industry.

Name:  Mr. Sandeep Haldankar
Qualifications: BSc (Statistics)
Areas of Expertise:  Clinical data management, programming in clinical trials, web based technologies, data management software applications. He is competent in therapeutic areas like cardiovascular, dermatology, and oncology to name a few.
Current Profile: He holds position of Associate Director, Clinical Data Management Programming at inVentiv Health Clinical. He is skilled in project and resource management. Having excellent communication & leadership skills, he was successful established clinical data management unit in the pharma Net India Office.

Name:  Dr. Priti Kalel
Qualifications: BAMS, Advance Diploma in Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Data Management.
Areas of Expertise:  : Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Data Management, ICH-GCP guidelines. Dr. Kalel has been part of quality review & quality control processes at Quintiles.
Current Profile: Presently, Dr. Priti is Asst. Medical Data Review Manager, Quintiles Technology (India) Pvt Ltd. Her expertise includes analysis of the clinical trial data. She has played a key role in various study report generation such as query detail report, data status report and others.

Name:  Ramkrishnan Nellaiappan
Qualifications: M.S. Biomedical Engineering, MBA Project Management
Areas of Expertise:  Clinical research, data management, project management, business development, therapeutic areas such as - Oncology, Neuroscience, Cardiovascular, Immunology and more.
Current Profile: Currently he is holding position of Associate Director, CDM & SDTM / IDB & PKPD SAS programming inVentive Health Pune. With a stint of 13 years of experience in reputed ten pharma companies? He is proficient in drug discovery research in academia/CRO/pharmaceutical/biotech settings. Ramkrishnan is equipped with competencies in operating different clinical data management softwares and statistical programming. He is been certified by Six Sigma Green Belt (quality management methods) by KPMG (professional service company).

Name: A.Rajagopal
Qualifications: MCA, University of Madras
Areas of Expertise: Data management in clinical research, development and operations of softwares and clinical data processing.
Current Profile: Currently, working as Senior Programmer, in Clinical Data Management Centre (CDMC) Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu,India. A senior professional, has significant experience of around 16 years with proven records of accomplishment in undertaking multitasking roles as a co-investigator, trainer, content writer, implementer of data management integrity in reputed organizations. Presently, he is efficaciously leading ten research projects under his able guidance at a reputed medical college of India. He is a renowned resource person and have represented in various workshops and training programs in the area of clinical research. An intuitive academician has many publications in national and international journals on his credit.

Name:  Dr. Avinash Khairnar
Qualifications: M. Pharma (Pharmacology), PhD (Medical Pharmacology)
Areas of Expertise: Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoepidemiology
Current Profile: He is working as Associate Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology in the SMBT Dental College, Sangamner, Maharashtra. A multi dynamic teacher, researcher, evaluator in the field of pharmacovigilance for more than 10 years. He has successfully completed around 80 projects in the area of Pharmacoepidemiology and has several publications on “Drug Safety” to his credit. He is a founder member of the first MSc. “Pharmaceutical Medicine” course in India. He has trained more than 600 personnel in the domains of; ICH GCP guidelines, protocol writing, and research methods & statistics

Name: Ms Sandhya Angre
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), PGDHHM, Certificate in Healthcare Quality Management
Designation: Director Nursing at Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospitals, Mumbai
Area of expertis Quality management of nursing care, Nursing administration
Current Profile: A team leader with proven ability of problem solving & decision making in quality management of nursing care. Besides looking after nursing administration of the hospital, she contributes dynamically in formulation of policies & protocols to deliver quality service and is actively involved in JCI, NABH accreditation & ISO certification of the hospitals.

Name: Dr. Sripriya Gopalkrishnan
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), PhD
Designation: Principal, Sadhu Vaswani College of Nursing, Pune
Area of expertise: Medical, Surgical & Oncology Nursing, Nursing Education & Research
Current Profile: Dr. Sripriya, recipient of Best Teacher award by Rotary Club, has tutored, guided and mentored many nursing graduate, post graduate and PhD students and presented many scientific papers at various fora. She has also functioned as National Assessment and Accreditation Council Coordinator.

Name:  Dr. Sandhya Gupta
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), PhD
Designation:  Faculty, College of Nursing, AIIMS, New Delhi
Areas of Expertise: Psychiatric nursing, Geriatric nursing, Nursing education
Current Profile:  Recipient of prestigious awards like President’s Gold medal, Prashanti awards to name a few & formerly Secretary of Indian Nursing Council, Dr. Gupta is a fellow of Indian Society of Psychiatric Nurses & Chief Editor of Indian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing. In addition to being a member of technical committee of Health Informatics of Bureau of Indian Standards, she has presented several papers in national and international fora. Besides teaching she is a member of technical committee of Health Informatics of Bureau of Indian Standards. Dr. Gupta has also contributed to write chapters on Geriatric nursing, Palliative care for MOHFW, Government of India..

Name:  Lt. Col. Shobha Naidu
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), MBA (HM), DNA, PGDMLS
Designation:  Associate Professor at Symbiosis College of Nursing, Pune
Areas of Expertise:  Obstetrics & Gynecological Nursing, Hospital Administration & Nursing Education
Current Profile:  Lt. Col. Shobha Naidu, an experienced academician with proven ability of multitasking & excellent leadership qualities, has extensively worked in clinical nursing as well as hospital administration. Being an expert, she has chaired quite a few symposia & has been key resource person for many seminars and workshops on midwifery. There are several research papers published in journals of national & international repute to her credit.

Name:  Ms. Kawaljit Oberoi
Qualifications: BSc (Nursing), MBA, PGDHM, PGDQM
Designation:  Chief of Nursing, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon
Areas of Expertise:  Nursing Services Administration, Nursing Education and Planning, Designing & Commissioning of Hospitals
Current Profile: Trained NABH assessor & management representative of ISO & JCI for renowned hospitals in India, Ms. Oberoi has played key role in formulating Critical Care Nursing Standards. Being proficient at resource allocation & hospital operations, she has been instrumental in commissioning of well-known hospitals in India.

Name:  Ms. Priyanka Satarkar
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant
Designation:  Proprietor of the firm P. P. Satarkar & Co. Chartered Accountants
Areas of Expertise:  Financial Management, Accounting & Health Insurance
Current Profile: As a proficient Chartered Accountant, Ms. Priyanka Satarkar is engaged in teaching undergraduate as well as post graduate students in accounting, financial management, business laws, taxation, health insurance, accounts, auditing and fraud detection at various institutions of Symbiosis International University and other institutions in Pune.

Name:  Dr. Saroj Upasani
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), PhD
Designation:  Vice-principle of Institute of Nursing Education & Training, Gokhale Education Society, Nashik
Areas of Expertise:  Nursing Education & Research
Current Profile: With outstanding career in teaching for more than five decades, Dr. Saroj Upasani has trained & guided many undergraduate, post graduate as well as PhD students. She had heralded position of Principle at College of Nursing, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, PMT Loni. Besides her teaching engagements, Dr. Upasani has played a key role in reviewing syllabus of nursing programs for Indian Nursing Council, being Chairperson of Board of Studies Allied Health Sciences Maharashtra University of Health sciences (MUHS), Nashik.

Name:  Dr. Manju Vatsa
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), MPhil, PhD
Designation:  Principal at College of Nursing, AIIMS, New Delhi
Areas of Expertise:  Neonatal Nursing, Nursing Research & Education
Current Profile: A gold medalist academician, Dr. Manju Vatsa is founder president of Indian Association of Neonatal Nurses. She is an active member of the Indian nursing council, life member of the National neonatology forum as well as a core committee member of the PhD consortium of the Indian Nursing Council. Having written numerous research articles in national & international Journals, she has achieved fellowship in medical education technology from university of Dundee in Scotland U.K & ageing from Khon Kaen university, Thailand.

Name: Dr. Ramesh Adepu
Qualifications: M. Pharm, PhD
Designation:  Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore
Area of Expertise: Pharmacy, Pharmacovigilance, Research & Writing
Current Profile: With over two decades of teaching & research experience in Dr. Ramesh is working as Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, JSS College of Pharmacy. Apart from delivering presentations in various national and international fora, he has significant publications, books to his credit. He is actively involved in capacity building and training of practicing pharmacists & post-doctoral students and contributing to national and internationally funded research projects in pharmaceutical industry.

Name: Dr. Jyoti Rao Hegde
Qualifications: MD, PGDCR
Designation:  Manager, Medical writer at Pharm-Olam International, Bangalore
Areas of Expertise: Medical Writing, Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory & Scientific Writing, Data Management and Statistic
Current Profile:  Dr. Jyoti Rao-Hegde, specializing in regulatory medical writing has over 15 years of wide-ranging experience in medical communication and education. She is actively involved in team building activities & reviewing documents for medical writing. Having expertise in designing SOP, consultations for initiation and planning of various projects and conducting training for clinical operations, data management and statistics Dr. Jyoti also undertake market research activities.

Name:  Dr. (Mrs.) Snehal ManojKumar Singh
Qualifications: BHMS, M.P.C, CMW, PGDHHM, PGDLM
Designation:  Consultant Freelance Medical / Healthcare writer, Mumbai
Areas of Expertise:  Medico-Marketing, Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance, Medical & Regulatory Writing, Psychotherapy and Counselling
Current Profile:  Currently working as a freelance medical / healthcare writer, her principal writing skills involve medical & regulatory writing, clinical research, scientific documents, developing educational writing on healthcare. Dr. Snehal Singh brings a wide-ranging experience of more than a decade in medical and scientific writing. She has been associated with esteemed organizations like Tech Mahindra and Novartis Healthcare Pvt Ltd.

Name:  Dr. Guru Prasad Mohanta
Qualifications: M. Pharm, PhD
Designation:  Professor of Pharmacy, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu
Areas of Expertise:  Pharmacy, Pharmacovigilance, Research & Writing
Current Profile: With glorious career spanning for three decades Dr. G. P. Mohanta is an acclaimed academician and researcher. Apart from teaching, he is actively involved in capacity building, designing curriculum, evaluations and inspection of examinations, teaching and guiding PhD and master’s students. He holds leadership positions in many national committees, academic councils & associations, as well as was functioning as Editor for Medicine Information Newsletter & Associate Editor of Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice.

Name:  Dr. Milind Sardesai
Qualifications: MBBS, MHSc
Designation:  General Manager Operations, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mumbai
Areas of Expertise: Medical Writing, Pharmacovigilance, Signal Detection (Qualitative & Quantitative) And Risk Management, Medical Affairs and Business Operations
Current Profile: Having over 16 years’ of experience of working in pharmaceutical companies and CRO’s, Dr. Milind Sardesai is involved in monitoring the safety of globally marketed products, as well as products in development phases. Currently utilizing his expertise in case processing, aggregate reporting (DSUR, PSUR, PBRER), signal detection (Qualitative & Quantitative) and risk management (RMP & Updates) within the domain of pharmacovigilance, Dr. Sardesai is also involved i medical affairs and business operations.

Name: Dr. Sampada Patvardhan
Qualifications: M Pharm, PhD
Designation: Consultant-Medical Writing & Healthcare Services, Mumbai
Areas of Expertise: Drug Discovery and Development, Drug Informatics, Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Writing and Healthcare /Clinical Pharmacy
Current Profile:  Dr. Sampada Patvardhan is having over 26 yrs of experience in pharmaceutical research, pharmacology, pharmacovigilance & clinical research. She is also involved in regular literature updates using computerized packages in the field of new drug discovery and pharmacovigilance. Currently she is freelancing as Consultant for healthcare service & has expertise in writing manuscripts, designing educational and promotional material.

Name of the Institute:: RedR Organization
Area of Expertise: Disaster responses, Disaster risk reduction, Disaster training
Current Profile: Experts from RedR organization has contributed for developing our modules of Cert. program in disaster management. RedR India is a nonprofit organization that works for disaster situation by selecting, training and providing competent and committed personnel to humanitarian programmes worldwide. RedR is also involved in handling emergencies, relief work and disaster risk reduction. RedR India prepare effective and efficient disaster responses and risk reduction by designing training courses for International and National NGOs, UN Agencies and Governments.

Name: Dr. Sonopant Joshi
Qualifications: MSc (Nursing), MSc (DM), PhD
Designation:  Professor & Head, Research & Statistics, Symbiosis College of Nursing, Pune
Areas of Expertise: Disaster management, Disaster preparedness, Research & community health nursing
Current Profile:  With more than three decades of academic experience Dr. S.G. Joshi is proficient in community health nursing & disaster management. He is on editorial board member of many international journals. With numerous articles published in reputed national & international journals, he is also a recipient of Nurse Research Award bestowed by Trained Nurses Association of India. Currently he is working as a Professor and Head, Research & Statistics at Symbiosis College of Nursing, Pune.

Name:  Col. Sameer Mehrotra
Qualifications: MBBS, MD (HA), DNB, Dipl. in Disaster Mgt.
Designation:  Assistant professor, Dept. of Hospital Administration, AFMC
Areas of Expertise:  Administration, Disaster risk planning, Disaster preparedness
Current Profile:  With a glorious career spanning for more than two decades Col. Sameer Mehrotra is an acclaimed academician, serving Armed forces. Apart from teaching he is also involved in training, capacity building of students & delivered sessions for numerous conferences. Developing guidelines on hospital safety with NDMA, Govt of India he has contributed for projects funded by DRDO, ICMR & AFMRC. Currently he is working as assistant professor, Dept. of Hospital Administration, AFMC Pune.

Name:  Col. V. N. Supanekar
Qualifications: M.Sc
Designation:  National Trainer in Incident Response System and Crowd Management
Areas of Expertise:  Disaster Management, Disaster planning, Response System and Crowd Management
Current Profile: With his glorious career spanning over 26 years he has served Army in Artillery branch. Presently working in the field of disaster management with Govt. of Maharashtra for training activities & he is also involved in planning of disaster plan for various national as well as international institutes & events. He has numerous

Name: Ms. Meghana Abhyankar
Qualifications: M. Pharm
Designation: Secretary, Patient Safety Alliance
Area of expertise: Clinical Research, Project Management, Medical Writing
Current Profile: Ms. Abhyankar is involved in various initiatives of Patient Safety Alliance. Along with contributing to scientific & medical writing industry, she has conducted numerous seminars on ‘Patient Safety’ for various groups.

Name: Dr. Sanjeev Gupta
Qualifications: MBBS, MHRM, MBA (HCA), PGDHHM, PGDMLS
Designation: Medical Superintendent, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi
Area of expertise: Hospital Administration, Strategic Planning, Quality Management
Current Profile: Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, has steered many leading hospitals to enhance overall functioning, adding new business and revenue streams, image building and customer value maximization. He is certified NABH empaneled assessor & faculty in NABH workshops on clinical audit for medical professionals.

Name:  Dr. Suvarna Joshi
Qualifications: MD, PhD, DHA
Designation:  Associate Professor in Microbiology at RCSM Govt. Medical College, Kolhapur
Areas of Expertise: Microbiology, Research
Current Profile:  Having received commendation for scientific presentations in various conferences, Dr. Suvarna Joshi has significantly contributed to the field of microbiology through her several publications in national as well as international journals. Recipient of UNESCO ASM award, she has vast experience of teaching in medical colleges. Besides her academic engagements, she is also secretary of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist, Maharashtra.

Name:  Dr. Om Prakash Kansal
Qualifications: MD (Community Medicine)
Designation:  Technical Advisor, Injection Safety, BD India, New Delhi
Areas of Expertise:  Community Medicine, Maternal and Child Health & Immunization
Current Profile: With more than eighteen years of progressive work experience, Dr. Om Prakash Kansal is National trainer for immunization & various components of public health. He is leading NABH Safe-I program and played a key role in launching of Safe Injection Environment campaigns in various states. Besides this exemplary work, he has spoken extensively in various national and international fora on a variety of issues and challenges in public health.

Name:  Dr. Rohini Kelkar
Qualifications: MD
Designation:  Professor and Head Dept. of Microbiology at Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai
Areas of Expertise:  Microbiology, Hospital Infection Control
Current Profile: With extensive experience in teaching, Dr. Rohini Kelkar is recipient of prestigious awards like Life Time Achievement Award from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for contributions to the Environment for her exemplary work in the field of microbiology & infection control. She has contributed in many textbooks on microbiology, infection control, medicine and parasitology. Dr. Kelkar has also written “Guidelines for the prevention of infections in the operating room” & “WHO guidelines for Prevention of Hospital Associated Infections”. She also serves as an expert to MOEF, GOI for the Current Rules for Biomedical Waste 2015 & Deputy Chief Editor, Journal of Patient Safety and Infection Control.

Name:  Dr. Sanjeev Singh
Qualifications: MD, PhD
Designation:  Senior Medical Superintendent at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
Areas of Expertise:  Pediatrics, Hospital Management, Hospital Infection Control & Quality Management
Current Profile: Having Best Practices in Infection Control award by GOI, QCI as well as QIMPRO Quality award for 5 lean six sigma implementation under his belt, Dr. Sanjeev Singh is author of a book “Hospital Infection Control Guidelines: Principles & Practices”. He has significantly contributed in designing NABH 3rd edition standards, National Database on Key Performing Indicators (NABH) and State Infection Control Guidelines. Dr. Singh also serves as technical consultant and advisor to many state governments, WHO, national and international institutions and organizations.