Dr. Gaekwad is Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagpur University. He has extensive experience in the teaching and pharmaceutical research. He was earlier the Professor and Head of DIPSR. He is currently on the Board of Directors of several leading pharmaceutical companies.

He is Group Lead - Pharmacovigilance, Panacea Biotech Ltd. He has more than 8 years of experience in Clinical research and has undergone training in France on EMEA regulatory requirements, Roles and Responsibility of QPPV (European Union etc.).

Ashwani Pandita is working with Reliance Clinical Research Services (RCRS), Mumbai as Head-Quality Assurance. He has obtained his Masters in Quality Management from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, with his Bachelor’s in Pharmacy from Nagpur University. He has an experience of more than 9 years in Quality Assurance. As a global auditor for Reliance, he has performed several clinical trial audits in India, Turkey, UK, and other parts of Europe. His audit expertise includes investigator site audits, vendor audits, clinical laboratory audits and system audits. Additionally, he has an experience of hosting several inspections including USFDA inspections and EMEA inspections.

At Reliance, Ashwani is also responsible for the training of clinical research staff on various aspects of clinical trials and GCP. He has been an invited speaker at various GCP workshops and Clinical Research Training Courses in the country.

Ashwani is also associated with Clinical Trial Magnifier, Hong Kong as an Advisory Board Member.

Ashwani has joined Reliance in August 2005 and prior to joining Reliance, he was associated with pharmaceutical companies like Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Ipca Laboratories and US Vitamins.

Dr Naveen is a Certified Clinical Research Associate (CCRA) from the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) and a pharmacologist (Ph.D.) by education with broad experience of around 9 years together in Clinical Research as well as academics for drug development processes.

He continued his career at ICON Clinical Research as a Clinical Research Physician and have accumulated three years of industry and academic experience to my credit. While at ICON, he handled the tasks of a Medical Monitor as well as those of a Project Manager, along with the responsibilities of a Pharmacovigilance Physician. He now function as a consultant physician and trainer in Pharmacovigilance, and currently heads Cliniminds in Tamil Nadu, India.

He is specializing in the areas of Sponsor liaising and budget negotiations, along with clinical study set up (Phase I-IV), Project Management, Training of CRAs with co-monitoring visits, SOPs creation, Medical Writing, GCP-Audits of sites and vendor management.

In his current position he is the Manager-QA (Clinical Trials) at Veeda Oncology (VON) and is responsible for formulating training strategies for operations team.

He is currently working in Lead position in Clinical data management at i3 ( a unit of United Health Group). Prior to this, he has an extensive experience in CDM at TCS Mumbai.

Gayatri has 5.5 years experience in Clinical Data Management [ includes leading projects, creation of eCRF specification, Functional review of the data base, functional review of the edit checks, creation of Data Validation Specification, Data Validation, coordinate with the team throughout the cycle of the study on EDC/Paper studies] and other experience in Data processing. In her past assignment, she has worked as Clinical Data Manager in PAREXEL International Ltd., Hyderabad and also as a Quality Assessor with Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

He post graduated from prestigious Georgia Southern University, USA majoring in Biostatistics. Also completed his internship at prestigious Curtis Anderson Memorial Cancer Research Center, Savannah Georgia under guidance of renowned geneticist Dr. Dominique Broccoli. He has a clinical research experience of 4 years in USA working mostly on SAS and SPSS softwares in Biostatistics & Data Management. Currently he is working as Biostatistician in people’s hospital in Bhopal, M.P.

He is currently working as a Biostatistician – Fortis Clinical Research Ltd., Faridabad with total experience of more than three and half year in the Clinical and statistical research. He was a Jr. Biostatistician – Biometrics in CliniRx Research Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon for more than 1 year.

Dr. Ashish Indani is a medical doctor with over 6 years of experience as clinical research professional in the field of medical devices. He has strong understanding of global medical device regulatory environment. He has worked for several global medical devices companies, and currently working with Biosensors International. He is the senior visiting faculty at Cliniminds by special invitation.

He has an overall 6 years of experience in clinical research and marketing, working with Pharma companies and CRO’s. By Training, he is an B.Pharm, MBA with specialization in Marketing and is certified CRA from ACRP, USA. Also he has completed PG Diploma in Clinical Research from Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai. He has worked across various clinical research verticals including bioequivalence trials, Phase II, III and IV trials. He has monitored, managed projects, mentored teams and trained clinical research professionals. As a monitor he has prepared many sites for inspections and faced many internal and external audits. He has conducted various training programmes for internal team on Basic and advanced GCP and related issues.

In his current assignment he is the Faculty cum centre manager at Cliniminds and is responsible for oversight of operations and training needs and development of Cliniminds across Maharashtra, India. He is responsible for all academic related plans, tasks and activities for all courses offered by Cliniminds.

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, he is BDS with specialization in Dental Science. As Clinical Research Coordinator he 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. He has handled more than 25 Trials and 15 Trials Independently. He was also a Sub Principal Investigator for one of the Trial. He was also involved in various clinical activities including 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.

A result oriented Clinical Research Co-ordinator with 1.5 years of experience in Clinical Trials. She has Lead one PHASE-III Diabetic trial and co-ordinated PHASE IV & PHASE III Dibetic trials, PHASE III Ulcerative Colitis Trial and PHASE III H1N1 Pediatric Trial. She has an expertise in preparing subject file, preparing trial master file, documentation of trial procedures, doing IVRS/IWRS, filling eCRF and paper CRF, reporting AE and SAE, conducting trial in adherence to protocol. She is trained in ICH-GCP Guidelines. In Cliniminds She is working as an Academic Coordinator and in involved in training students theoretically and also providing practical hands on experience.