About us Our Team Faculty at CREMA

Renowned and experienced names from the Clinical Research industry have come together to form the faculty team at CREMA.These expert minds implement a dynamic mix of lectures, case studies and hands-on learning through tried & tested tools and methods. They not only assist students in developing active interest in the curriculum but also in planning a successful career in Clinical Research.

• Mumbai
• Delhi
• Bangalore
• Hyderabad

Mumbai

Healthcare and Hospital Management

Pooja Tulara

Qualification: Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Management (MHA) in 2000 ( IVth Batch) from Indian Institute Of Health Management and Research, Jaipur.

Experience: 10 years

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: Project Manager cum Faculty for MBA (Healthcare Management)

ExpertiseQuality :

• Operations Management, Human resource Management.
• Medical Tourism, Quality Management and Accreditation.
• Materials Management, Infection Control and Biomedical Waste Management.

Dr. Ravindra Bhatnagar

Qualification:

•  Fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery
• Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration (PG – DHA) in 2007 – 2008 Batch from Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
• Post Graduate Certificate Course in Quality Management and Accreditation of Health Care organization (QM & AHO) from Academy of Hospital Administration, Noida

Experience: 25 years

Current Organization: CREMA, Tata Institute os Social Sciences, Nanawati Hospital

Designation: Visiting Faculty for MBA (Healthcare Management)

Expertise:Medical Ethics. Quality Management, MIS

Clinical Research Faculty

Almas Sayed

Qualification: Pursuing MBA in International Business (final year), BSc (Micro)

Experience: Approximately 7-8 years

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: Clinical Research Faculty

Expertise: Core Clinical Research and Pharmacovigilance

Award: ICH-GCP trainer certificate from TCS

Dr. Vandana Sinha

Qualification: M.B;B.S, Professional training on Advanced modules of GCP

Experience: 20 years

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: Vice Principal, Mumbai Campus

Expertise: Medical & Core clinical research subjects

Gayatri S. Anchan

Qualification: B. Pharma, M.Sc (Clinical Research)

Experience:3.5 years

Current Organization:CREMA

Designation:Faculty  

Expertise:  CR and pharmacology topics

Syed Irfanul Haque

Qualification:  MBA (Clinical Research)  &  Masters in Biotechnology

Experience:  8 years of Exp. In Clinical Research & CDM Industry & Academia

Current Organization:  CREMA

Designation:  Senior Lecturer

Expertise: Clinical Research & CDM

Contribution: A Result oriented professional with 8 years of Qualitative experience in:

• Clinical Research
• Clinical Data Management ( Oracle Clinical )
• Training & Development
• Managing & Leading Team

1. Pfizer trained Professional in ICH-GCP, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Data Validations, Edit Check Specifications, Project Management, CRF Designing, Medical Coding, Oracle Clinical 4.5, OCRDC etc…Experience in Training Industry Professionals in the Domain of Clinical Data Management, Clinical Research, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
2. Certified Training Exam completed from  Pfizer  in Clinical Research & Clinical Data Management
3. Expertise in delivering Presentations to Clients
4. Ability to prioritize Projects & Manage Resources

Delhi

Healthcare and Hospital Management

Gaurav Chopra

Qualification: MBA, M. Com.,PG Diploma in Business Management

Experience: 1.5 years

Expertise: Finance, Economics and Operations research

Dr S K Joshi

Qualification:

• MBBS, MHA, DNB, QMAHO,
• Certified Assessor for NABH Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations

Experience:38 years

Designation :

• Consultant Hospital Planning and Management,
• Quality Management and Accreditation of Hospitals

Guest Faculty & Examiner : Academy of hospital administration, NOIDA

 Guest faculty : IIHMR, Dwarka, New Delhi

 Expertise: Hospital Management, Quality Management in hospitals, Medico-legal aspects

Author of   Books : 

• QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS ( J P Brothers Med. Pub. New Delhi) 
• LAW AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE  ( J P Brothers Med Pub. New Delhi)      

Articles Published: 

• Strategic Productivity Issues related to cost containment.  
• Health care Laws and EthicsA Review.
• TelemedicineEthical and Legal perspective

Mohit Sharma

Qualification:

• Masters in Health Management from I.H.M.R, Jaipur,
• MBA in Human Resource Management (Pursuing)

Experience:

• 2 years experience in training and capacity building segments,
• 1 year experience in coordination of health care programs at government and NGO level.

Current Organization: CREMA India, Delhi Campus

Designation: Project Coordinator cum Faculty.

Expertise: In Health Communications and I.E.C and B.C.C activities.

Contribution: Have been associated with many NGOs and also worked as a voluntary worker.

Sachin Srivastava

Qualification: PGDBM Marketing and HR

Experience: 6 yrs

Current Organization: ICFAI University, ABS Noida, GIMT Noida, MASCO Media

Designation: Visiting lecturer

Expertise: Marketing, Strategic Management and Economics

Award: Best Teacher of the year 2009 ICFAI Business School Noida

Clinical Research Faculty

Dr Sachin Manocha (Campus Head)

Qualification

• MBBS (Pt JNM Medical College, Raipur MP)
• M.D Pharmacology (University of Madras, Chennai)

Designation:  Vise Principal

Current Organization:  CREMA

Experience:

• 13 yrs of teaching experience in Medical,
• Dental colleges of NCR, working in Clinical Research Organizations,
• Hospitals and Pharmaceutical Industries

Contribution:

• Many publications and Scientific Communications in National and International Journals
• Papers presented/accepted in International Conferences
• Attended various scientific and clinical research meetings
• Examiner of Clinical Research Subject of M.Pharma Course by Delhi University
• Guided Projects and thesis of many Part time Diploma and MSc Clinical Research Students

Awards:

• Life Member of APPI, IPS, DMC and MCI and Canadian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dr.Sumathi Prabhu

Qualification: M.B.B.S, M. Sc (Med.), MD (Pharmacology)

Current Organization:CREMA

Experience:

• 40 years teaching Experience at Maulana Azad Medical College. Last Post held Director -Prof Pharmacology at MAM College.
• Published 30 papers in Scientific Journals
• Conducted a number of workshops on Education, Science Technology at M.A.M College
• Attended a number of Scientific Conferences and Presented Papers in the same.
• Chairman of Institutional Animal Ethics Committee in Malaria Research Centre,ICMR

Contribution:

• 40 years teaching Experience at Maulana Azad Medical College. Last Post held Director -Prof Pharmacology at MAM College.
• Attended a number of Scientific Conferences and Presented Papers in the same.

Expertise: 

• Published 30 papers in National and international Scientific Journals
• Conducted a number of workshops on Education, Science Technology at M.A.M College

Abhinandan Sandhu

Qualification: M Pharm (Pharmacology) from Panjab University, Chandigarh

Experience: More than 5 years of experience in Industry and Academics

Current Organization: Serving CREMA from year 2008

Designation: Lecturer

Expertise:

• ICH-GCP, Clinical trials, SOPs, Protocol writing, Monitoring of trials, Report writing, CRF designing,
• Essential documents, QA &QC, Audits and Inspections
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Pharmacovigilance, Preclinical studies,
• Toxicology studies, Drug discovery process, Patent process
• Sound knowledge of various Regulatory Guidelines (US FDA, ICH, ICMR, TGA, drugs and cosmetic act,)

Award:

• Paper presented entitled “Pharmacological investigation on S-nitrosothiol derivative of naproxen: a novel class of nitric oxide releasing NSAIDs” in O.D Gulati prize session in XXXVII Annual Conference Indian pharmacological society, Jan13-Jan15, 2005 organized in Calcutta.
• Paper presented entitled “Comparative analgesic and anti-inflammatory studies on some s-nitrosothiol compounds novel nitric oxide releasing” in O.D Gulati prize session in XXXVI Annual Conference Indian pharmacological society, Dec5-7, 2003 organized by Vallabh Bhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi.
• Poster presented entitled “Modulators role of Nitric Oxide releasing NSAIDs in Cognitive Dysfunction” in 91st international symposium on recent advances in pharmacology, Jan 7-8, 2004, New Delhi.
• Poster presented entitled “Role of Pharmacist in Health Care System” organized by Indian Pharmaceutical Association, on the occasion of National Pharmacy Week. 2002, NIPER
• Attended a number of Scientific Conferences

Contribution:

• Nominated for O.D Gulati prize session in XXXVII Annual Conference Indian pharmacological society, Jan13-Jan15, 2005 organized in Calcutta.
• Nominated for O.D Gulati prize session in XXXVI Annual Conference Indian pharmacological society, Dec5-7, 2003 organized by Vallabh Bhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi
• In house ICH GCP trainings, SOPs writing exercises, protocol writing exercises

                           
Membership:

• Indian Pharmacological Society

• Indian Science Congress

Heenu Dhar

Qualification: B.pharm, MSc (Medical Pharmacology) Partly through research

Experience:  Seven years

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: Lecturer

Expertise:  Pharmacoviglance, pharmacology, Clinical research

Award:  Best Seminar presentation award, Best paper presentation award, Best Faculty award

Contribution:  Arranged Site visits for CREMA students to various research centeres In charge Faculty for pulse activities scheduled at AIIMS Delhi for (NDMVP) medical college

Mrs. Indu Shrivastava

Qualification

• MS (Computational Biology), cum laude, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• BA (Biology), summa cum laude, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• BSc (Biology), Rani Durgavati University, India

Experience

• Content Manager, Health and Wellness Portal (http://www.healthji.com), India
• Regulatory Affairs Professional, Veridex LLC (J & J co), USA
• Clinical Data Analyst, Veridex, LLC (J & J co), USA
• Computational Biology Intern, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, USA
• 3+ years of experience in the Financial Industry (HSBC, PNC Banks, etc), USA
• 2+ years of contract experience at companies like Staples, Xerox, Strong Hospital, USA

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: Senior Lecturer

Expertise

• Authored over 30 eBooks, based on scientific evidence proved health information for Corporate Client usage
• Direct Liaison with the US FDA for a Phase III oncological medical device approval
• Directly responsible for review of filings for US FDA compliant amendments, supplements, device product listings, adverse reporting and annual reports for PMAs, 510 (k)s and IDEs
• Managed the Clinical Trial Master File for 13 sites
• Clinical data entry, data review, patient profiles, QA edit checks, database (Oracle Clinical) quality control audits

Awards:

• “Above and Beyond” Recognition Award for providing company wide on-site technical support and troubleshooting for GeneSpring™ 4.2 at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, NJ, USA
• Dean’s List, NJIT, USA
• Gonfalon Carrier, College of Science and Liberal Arts, NJIT, USA

• Gold Medalist and scholarship recipient for 3 consecutive years for the highest score in the college during BSc (Biology), India

Abhilasha Abhay Gupta

Qualification: MBA, Bed

Experience: 30 years (out of which 14 years of administrative experience)

Current Organization: ISIL

Designation: Regional Coordinator

Expertise: HR/Comunication skills/Soft skills

Contribution: Worked as member of the Education Committee at the YWCA of Delhi for formulation of rules/regulations and curriculum for their College –Women’s Training Institute’-an NGO working for the upliftment of women. 

Shivani Sharma

Experience:8 Years

Current Organization:ISIL.

Designation:Sr. Trainer

Expertise:Behavioral Training and Management

Humaira Malik

Qualification: M.Pharma (Pharmacology) from Jamia Hamdard.Delhi

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: Lecturer CR–Part time

Expertise: Clinical Research, Pharmacology

Award: Topper in B.Pharm, awarded Gold Medal  

Contribution:Published paper in Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Journal Vol. 24, 2006: 65-70 titledCYP2D6 Phenotyping in North Indian Subjects in Delhi.

Bangalore

Dr.Jayasimha.M.S

Qualification: B.D.S

Experience: 4.5 years

Current Organization: CREMA Bangalore

Designation: Jr.Faculty

Expertise: Clinical Research

Contribution:

Dr.Jayasimha.M.S has over 4.5 years of experience in clinical research working with Hospitals, Pharma companies, CRO, Labs and training academy. By Training, I am a  BDS with specialization in Dental Science. As Clinical Research Coordinator I  was involved in Maintaining Site Master Files, Drug accountability. Patients dosing, Collecting pk samples, Paper CRF and e-CRF completion, Ethics Committee submissions, Electronic data capturing and entry.
I have handled more than 25 Trials and 15 Trials Independently. He was also a Sub Principal Investigator for one of the Trial. I  was also involved in various

 Clinical Activities:

• Ensuring protocol compliance for all the events and the procedures, Attending Investigator meeting & Site training meeting, Assessment of inclusion & exclusion criteria, Participation in informing the patients about clinical trials, Participation in obtaining informed consent, evaluating patient status for safety and assure optimum health care.        

 Administrative Activities:

• Scheduling patient visits as per protocol schedule of events, Coordinating with Bio-medical Waste Management department for waste generated due to Investigational Procedures administration, Management of Ethics Committee submission on clinical study, To maintain the essential documents at the site, To maintain and submit the progress status of the trials to the Ethics Committee, To maintain and submit revisions & amendments of trials related documents to Ethics Committee, To maintain & document relevant communications with Sponsors/CRO i.e. meeting notes, letters and telephone calls, Coordinating with accounts department for financial aspects of patients milestone after each visit.

I  have attended two scientific meeting and research activities Attended the Phase 1b/ 2 Trial Investigators meeting in Hong Kong- China on 15-16 May 2009,  Attended the Investigators meeting for Morphotek VANTAGE 088 and VANTAGE 095 Study in Singapore on 25-27 June 2009 .As CRA I  was into Monitoring Activities  like Patient registration and randomization, Case Report Forms (CRF) completion, Assist the sponsor’s designated representative in monitoring and collection of trial data, Queries resolution, Maintaining drug accountability records, Dispensing and storage of Investigational products. In the previous assignment I was  into Training and Operations at Cliniminds and was  responsible for oversight of operations and training needs and development across Bangalore.
Note: I have prepared a Hand Book in Clinical Research for the students which is published and given to students along with course material.

D.Sathyanand

QUALIFICATION: B.Sc (Geology)

EXPERIENCE : 40yrs - Industry Experience, 5yrs – Training Experience

CURRENT ORGANIZATION : Crema

DESIGNATION: Sr.Faculty (Management Studies)

EXPERTISE: Soft-Skills Training

Hyderabad

Mr. Prabhakar Gupta

Designation: Senior Faculty, Campus Incharge

Qualification: MSc. M. Phil, PGDCRCDM, GCP certificate from GCP Alliance - Europe

Experience: 7.5 yrs ( 3yrs Lecturer & 2 yrs HOD, 2.5 yrs CREMA)

Current Organization: Clinical Research Education and Management Academy, Hyderabad.

Designation:  Senior Faculty- CREMA, Hyderabad, India

Expertise: GCP, Audits and Regulatory,  GCP TRAINER For Principal Investigators.

Expertise:

• GCP, Audits and Regulatory
•  GCP TRAINER For Principal Investigators

Awards:

•  ISO 9001:2000 certified internal auditor, Best Practical instructor in previous organization, Best Faculty of the year 2009 -2010, CREMA

Soumya Prakash Rout

Qualification:  M.Pharma (PhD)

Experience:

• More than 7years of cumulative experience in the field of Drug Discovery,
• Clinical Drug Development and Academics.

Current Organization:

• Clinical Research Education and Management Academy, Hyderabad
• Consulting Pharmacologist to AdPharma Inc., Illinois, Chicago, US and Scientific Advisor to InnoVision Therapeutics LLC. Austin, Texas, US.

Designation:  Senior Faculty- CREMA, Hyderabad, India

Expertise:   Drug Discovery and Clinical Drug Development, Project Management, Pharmacology

Contribution: More than 25 International and National Publication in the field of Pharmaceutical Research and given Presentations in several National and International Conferences.

Dr. Y.B.Ramesh

Designation : Academic Coordinator & Faculty

Qualification

• Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Trials Management (PGDCTM)
• Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS)

Experience

• 7 yrs of experience includes Private Practice,Susrutha People Hospital,Dr.Desai’s Clinic and Indo American Cancer Institute & Research Centre

Leela Veeramachaneni

Designation: Senior Faculty

Qualification: M.Sc (Medical Pharmacology), B.Sc

Experience:

• 9 yrs and 6 months of teaching experience in Medical, Dental, physiotherapy, nursing and paramedical colleges.
• Worked with ICMR as senior research fellow in the project "Community Control of Thalassaemia Syndromes - Awareness, Screening, and Genetic counseling & Prevention" in 2002.

Contribution:

• Participated in regional and national pharmacology conferences.
• Participated in Annual International continuing Medical education programme for HIV AIDS, Hyderabad in 2005, 2006 & 2007.
•  University Exam expert in charge for MBBS students MIMS, Dr. NTRUHS during 2004-2008.
• External examiner for nursing students - in 2004, Dr. NTRUHS, AP.
• Examiner and paper setter for Physiotherapy College affiliated to SNDT University, Mumbai -2000-2002.
• Life member of Indian Pharmacological Society.
• Initiated collaborative project with V.Krishan Raju, Title: “Protective effective of Vitamin E with Cyproheptadine in burns induced toxicity”.

Publication:

• Invitro study of interaction between antiepileptic and neuromuscular agents at neuromuscular junction” in IJP, 35,379-383.

Dr Anand A.M

Qualification: Bsc, BDS

Experience:  14 years

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation:  SENIOR FACULTY

Expertise: Dental surgeon with Project management experience 

Contribution:

• Adding my Clinical research industry, Maxillofacial and Dental experience into the content part while doing subject delivery for the students of CREMA

S.Silpa

Qualification: M.PHARM

Experience: 6 years.

Current Organization: CREMA

Designation: FACULTY

Expertise:  

• SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE IN MEDICO – MARKETING SERVICES , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY ,teaching experience in anatomy and physiology, pathology ,clinical pharmacology etc..