Alliance India recently organised a conference ‘Annual Global Pharma Regulatory & Quality Compliance 2013’ in Mumbai. The conference was designed around the ongoing regulatory affairs faced by many companies within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector; wherein the attendees were primarily from the quality assurance/control, regulatory compliance, manufacturing department.
The panel of speakers were Dr Ajaz Hussain, Ex Deputy Director, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, US FDA, Mahesh Zagade, FDA Commissioner, Government of Maharashtra, Ranjit Barshikar, QbD and cGMP, Consultant; Dale Adkisson, EVP and Head, Global Quality, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Aparna Parinam, Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Sanjay Jain, VP, Quality Management, Amneal Pharmaceutical, Dr Deepak Haldankar, Vice President, Corporate Quality, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Dr PV Kanitkar, Director, Plant Operations, Pfizer, Hemant Narwekar, Head, QA, Cipla, Dr Sanjay Shetgar, Vice President, Operations, Quality Global Generics, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Manu Grover, Assistant Product Manager, Waters India, Shaun Quinn: Chromeleon- Software Product Specialist, Networking and Compliance (Thermo Scientific), Saroj Patnaik, Global Director, Emerson Life Sciences (Emerson Process Management), Venkata Ramana, General Manager, CQA & Head, Computer System Compliance, Ranbaxy Laboratories.
Concerned research analysts/ correspondents were present to interview the speakers anddelegates. Cipla, Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Kemwell Biopharma, Perrigo Laboratories India, Piramal Enterprises, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Teva Pharm India, Watson Pharma, Wockhardt and Thomson Reuters took part in the conference.
The conference was consecrated by the directors of Alliance India, Brian Nunes and Faisal Sheikh who accompanied Dr Deepak Haldankar and the chairman of the event Ranjit Barshikar to light the lamp. Barshikar began with his updates on US FDA inspection guidelines. The chief guest, Mahesh Zagade shared his impulsive and well informed notion on the latest indian regulatory requiremnts/ changes.
A panel-discussion on business and process automation: an integral part of regulatory compliance was lead by significant individuals from the companies present at the conference. Adkisson stood out as an empowering speaker post his intense impartation on ways to resolve data integrity issues.
Dr Ajaz Hussain addressed the crowd on data integrity concerns. His humility to have agreed to do so was not only overwhelming, but appreciated by the crowd’s utmost diligence during his presentation. The conference was concluded by Barshikar and Nunes.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai