Professional Activities

Awards / Honors / Professional Recognition

1. Innovations in teaching and learning. Invited Speaker In: Proceedings of "Impact of ICT in technical education", TECH FEST. From 23-25 October, 2010 at Directorate of Technical Education, Government of Himachal Pradesh, Sundernagar, H.P.
2. Pharmaceutical product development: Pre-formulation techniques and perspective. Resource person for One-Day Seminar on Drug Discovery and Development, Theme: “Preformulation: Its Impact on Drug Delivery”, January 18, 2014, School of Pharmacy, ITM University, Gwalior.

Professional Experience: Duties And Achievement (In Reverse Chronological Order)

Teaching

Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Jawalaji, Kangra (H.P)

Duration	September 2013 to till date
Designation	Associate Professor

Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Jawalaji, Kangra (H.P)

Duration	February 2010 to September 2013
In-charge principal	May 18, 2010 to February 10, 2011
Designation	Assistant Professor and Head (Pharmaceutics)

Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Jawalaji, Kangra (H.P)

Duration	May 2009 to February 2010
Designation	Sr. Lecturer and Head (Pharmaceutics)

Meerut Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut (U.P.) (NBA accredited in 2008)

Duration	February 2007 to May 2009
Department	Department of Pharmaceutics
Designation	Lecturer

Industrial

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

Duration	April 2006 to February 2007
Department	EBA (Site Transfer for Human Pharma Products)
Designation	Executive

Overall Exposure

• Aware of major audits in plant - US-FDA, WHO, MHRA, MCC, TGA.
• Worked with SAP system.
• Aware of relevant guidelines including US-FDA and SUPAC.

Professional Activities

1. Associate Editor of Journal of Chronotherapy and Drug Delivery, India.
2. Reviewer for International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Elsevier Publications.
3. Reviewer for Journal of Drug Targeting, Informa Healthcare Publications.
4. Reviewer for Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, Informa Healthcare Publications.
5. Reviewer for AAPS PharmSciTech, Springer.
6. Reviewer for Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (Formerly 'Current Medicinal Chemistry - Anti-Inflammatory ", Bentham Science.
7. Reviewer for Current Drug Delivery, Bentham Science.
8. Reviewer for Pharmaceutical Biology, Bentham Science.
9. Reviewer for the World Applied Science Journal, Noshirvani University Technology.Babol, Iran.
10. Reviewer for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Research, Herbert Publications, United Kingdom.
11. Reviewer for African Journal of Microbiology Research, South Africa.

Conducted as Organization Committee Member (05)

1. Three Days Workshop on ‘Advances in Computer Aided Drug Discovery and Design Methods’, during August 4-6, 2008, at Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, in collaboration with VLife Technologies, Pune (as Organization Committee Member).
2. One Day Seminar on ‘Pharm D: A New Definition of Pharmacist’, on September 7, 2008, at Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, in Collaboration with Indian Pharmaceutical Association, UP State Branch (Organization Committee Member).
3. Three Days’ Workshop on ‘Communications in Biomedical Sciences’, during November 5-7, 2012, at Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Dehra (as Course Coordinator); Delivered lectures on ‘Introduction to Writing Scientific Papers – TIMRaD’, ‘How to Present Results in Scientific Papers?’, ‘Use of Computers for Making Tables and Figures’, ‘Language Aspects and Style of Writing’, ‘How to Make Effective Poster Presentation?’.
4. One Day Workshop on ‘Hands on Training Analytical Instrument Expertise’ In Collaboration with Industrial Experts, on April 6, 2014, at Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Kangra, H. P. (Organization Committee Member)
5. Two days ICMR & DST sponsored National Conference on Innovative Drug Delivery Systems “Flaunting Research and Innovative DDS Technologies”. 22-23 August 2014 at Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Kangra, H.P. (In-charge Scientific Committee).

Attended as Delegate (03)

1. Participated in 58th Indian pharmaceutical congress, Bombay exhibition center (December 1 to 3, 2006).
2. Attended national workshop on “Bioinformatics”, Sponsored by MIET, Meerut and Moscon Global Ltd. (November 16 to 18’ 2007).
3. Attended Pre-conference workshop on “Publishing your research work in impact journals” In: 12th International Congress of Ethanopharmacology. 17 February 2012, School of Natural Products Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Training

1. Attended training course on “From Drug Discovery to Drug Delivery: Contemporary Trends” under UGC Networking Resource Centre, held at University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh from 16th to 21st March 2015.
2. Attended one-day training on viscosity & rheology - Advance instruments given by Brookfield Engineering USA, at MIET, Meerut (June 18’ 2008).
3. Summer Training at Sadhna Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Ghaziabad for one month in various processing technologies and equipments in the plant were studied of all the section i.e. Tablet, Capsule, Liquid, QC department and QA.
4. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. M. Pharm project work for the duration of 10 months.

Participation in healthcare programmes

1. Participated in rotary project of national pulse polio immunization programme on 6th April 2003 at Modinagar, Ghaziabad, U.P. for providing support to the polio eradication program in India.
2. Participated in Indian national polio plus committee and RID 3010 of Rotary International on 9th November 2003 at Modinagar, Ghaziabad, U.P. for Providing support to the polio eradication program in India.

Professional Memberships

3. Life Member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (UP/LM-144).
4. Registered pharmacist, Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) - Uttarakhand State Branch, Dehradun (Reg. No. 6587).
5. Approved teaching faculty by Central Pharmacy Council of India, New Delhi (PCI) – FID No. MIELEC000004.