Assistant Professor-Selection Grade
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India, India
His areas of interest are drug safety, public health pharmacy, and pharmacoepidemiological research. He has 86 publications in national and international journals to his credit (Including Journals like BMJ Global Health, Antibiotics, Medical Hypotheses, Journal of American College Nutrition, Expert Opinion on pharmacotherapy, Nutrition, etc.) with h-index (Scopus 13; Google Scholar:18). He has written 13 book chapters in Nutrition and Clinical Toxicology in Elsevier (Academic Press) and Taylor & Francis (CRC Press) published books. He had received a Pharmabridge fellowship from FIP, Netherlands, for clinical pharmacy training in Canada. Moreover, he has received an ISID-Pfizer grant to establish public health pharmacy model to tackle AMR. Recently, he received DHR-GIA grant from Department of Health Research, New Delhi. Besides, he has received a research grant from Manipal-McGill Centre for infectious diseases (MAC ID) for Vitamin D research in diabetic foot infection and Intramural Funding (IMF) from MAHE. He is also a co-investigator in two funded projects by the ICMR-North East Seed grant and Pfizer Global Medical grant. He has also received travel grants from various funding agencies like DST, DBT, ICMR, CICS, Tata Trust, and ISPE to present his research works at International conferences. He is a registered PhD guide under the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, currently guiding 3 PhD fellows. He has established a Centre for Public Health Pharmacy under Manipal Academy of Higher Education. He also serves as staff coordinator of the Pharmacy Literacy Club and Staff editor of “DigiDose” a quarterly Newsletter. He has visited different countries like Malaysia, Thailand, UAE, Japan, Australia, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, and the Czech Republic to present his research work. He is a recipient of Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s SCLSG Grant in 2022. He was awarded the best poster in Manipal Cardiology Update-2016 & 2018, TAHCON-2016 and Publon Reviewer award, etc.
