Paul Benninger has twenty years of global Clinical and Bioanalytical research experience in which the last 10 years have been in the pharmaceutical CRO sector. He has a complete hands-on experience in over 600 Phase 1/BE/BA studies, and over 50 single-centre Phase 2 and multi-centre Phase 3 clinical trials.

During the past 10 years he has grown a privately held full service CRO from 6 employees to over 600 employees from Canada and US. Mr. Paul also has a significant regulatory compliance experience with all major regulatory agencies including the FDA, EMEA, TPD and ANVISA.He has been involved in numerous successful North American FDA and TPD inspection as well as providing independent auditing services for Indian CROs. In 2006 while under his leadership, Allied Research International was named one of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada.

Kamal Shahani is an MBA, with over 21 years of experience in the field of healthcare, pharma and clinical research industry. Before establishing Cliniminds and Mediminds, he was heading an international CRO Allied Research International - Cetero, North America in India and at the same time working with ARI’s international operations in United States and Canada and was directly involved in setting up the CRO and central reference lab in Miami, Florida. He has also worked for Gribbles Pathology Australia and Dr. Lal PathLabs on the senior management positions, and established and managed over 15 nationally and internationally accredited laboratories. For the last 4 years he has been involved in developing and managing international level educational and training programs in the field of Clinical Research and other healthcare management areas, and has established one of the largest and most reputed network for clinical research education and training. He is also an international business consultant and Director on the board of various international healthcare and clinical research companies. He has been nominated on the Editorial Board of Journal for Clinical Studies, published from U.K.

Dr. Darshana Purohit has completed her MBBS from Mumbai, has a Masters in Hospital Administration(MHA) from New Jersey, USA and is a Certified IRB Professional (CIP). She has worked in the Clinical Research industry for close to 9 years in the USA at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, a leading research and teaching hospital in NJ. She has been the single point of contact for all research regulatory requirements for the US FDA, OHRP, JCAHO and ICH GCP for the medical center. She has been the lead internal auditor and trainer for all clinical trials that were performed at the medical Center. She has been involved with corporate SOP writing for research administration for multicenter clinical trials, financial decision making and budgeting. She has extensive experience in teaching clinical research to medical, nursing students, medical residents, physicians and medical fellows in conducting a clinical trial as per ICH-GCP guidelines, JCAHO, US FDA and OHRP. She has assisted in designing clinical trials for investigator initiated trials, guided in regulatory submission to the IRB and FDA. Her range of research experience includes cardiac, cardiac transplant, oncology, pediatric oncology, critical care medicine, pulmonary medicine, sleep disorders, etc. She has also taught at the University of Pune for their Clinical Research and Data Management program before joining Cliniminds.

Dr J Vijay Venkatraman is an allopathic doctor with specialization in Diabetology. He also has a MBA degree in Services Management to his credit. He has worked in the Pharmaceutical industry as Drug Safety (Pharmacovigilance) Physician and Clinical Research Physician in leading multinational organizations like Accenture and ICON Clinical Research.

He has performed medical review of more than 5000 adverse events and serious adverse events. He has accumulated expertise in working on ARISg and other drug safety databases. He has worked extensively in Literature Adverse Drug Reaction Search. He served as medical monitor for clinical trials during which he gained project management experience also. He is a subject matter expert in Diabetology and has published in national & international journals.

Dr J Vijay Venkatraman teaches Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Research to students and industry professionals. He has also served as a guide for students’ projects. He had the opportunity to visit the head offices of various leading multinational pharmaceutical companies during his trip to Germany.

Integrating his knowledge and experience from both the Academia and the Industry perspectives, he is now a Consultant Pharmacovigilance Physician based at Coimbatore. He heads the operations of the Tamil Nadu & Puducherry regions of Cliniminds (www.cliniminds.com), India's largest Clinical Research Training Academy. He is a faculty at Cliniminds as well.

Dr J Vijay Venkatraman is also a practising Diabetologist at Diab-at-ease Clinik, which is located in the premises of KTVR Group Hospital (www.ktvr.com), of which he is a Director. He is also the Consultant in Pharma Domain for Rated Profiles (www.ratedprofiles.com), a unique comprehensive career management portal.

Dr. Satesh Shekhar as a qualified physician with B.H.M.S degree and having approximately 5 years of experience in pharmacovigilance, phase 1 , phase 2 and Phase 3 trials. He has been with prestigious organizations like Johnson and Johnson and lambda Therapeutic research and specializes in medical writing and Pharmacovigilance. He has Prepared and assisted in the database/pharmacovigilance activities required for the smooth conduct of the operations. Also he has authored protocols for various bioavailability / bioequivalence trials, phase trials including submission trials (countries where the trial submitted: UK, USA, Canada, Australia).

He graduated from the University of Delhi and went on to complete Masters in Clinical Research and then an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Research management. He has undergone GCP certification from Academy of Clinical excellence, Mumbai. Also obtained an IATA Certification for handling Biological Samples in clinical trials.

Carrying an Experience of more than 3 years and being a part of 12 Oncology trials with different indications at a centre in Bhopal, he has hands on experience in managing trials, handling patients, preparing tracks, handling sponsor’s communication, handling and facing audits and regulatory inspections. He has been with Cliniminds since past 2 years and has guided and mentored students to achieve their proficiency in courses that they are currently doing.