Drug Information Association (DIA) will organise 9th Annual India Conference in Mumbai from October 16-18,2014. The theme of the meeting is ‘The Future of Indian Healthcare: Patients, Access and Innovation.’
The programme committee members are Alexandra Pearce, Senior Vice President and Head Global Regulatory Affairs, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Europe, United Kingdom, Madhur Gupta, Technical Officer – Pharmaceuticals, WHO, India, Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Chairman, Task Force for Clinical Research, Apollo Hospitals Group.
The programme will include sessions on important topics including patient health safety and compliance for prescription medicine, patient participation in clinical trials, universal health coverage and health insurance, medicine pricing and reimbursement, compulsory licensing, innovations in healthcare solutions etc.
Speakers who will take part in the conference are MK Bhan, Former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Vikas Mohan Sharma, Senior Director, Medical Ethics & Research Office of CMO, Quintiles Technologies India, Bhasker Iyer, Divisional Vice President, India Commercial Operations, Abbott Healthcare, Urmila Thatte, Director, FERCI, Prof and Head, Deptartment of Clinical Pharmacology, KEM Hospital, Satish Chandra, Senior Specialist and Head Clinical Research, TAWAM Hospital (associate of John Hopkins), United Arab Emirates, YK Gupta, Prof & Head, Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Pooja Sharma, Patient Advocacy Groups, CANKIDS, India, Ajoy Roy, Senior Medical Director and Head Medical Affairs, Parexel, Vivek Ahuja, Director, PATH, Adnan Mahmood, Director- Medical Safety & Clinical Development, Global Patient Safety, UK, Mira Shiva Founder, Health Action International Asia Pacific, Mira Shiva, Founder, Health Action International Asia Pacific, Vikas Ahuja, President, The Delhi Network of Positive People, Ketho Angami, Executive Member, HepCoN and Barbara Bierer, Senior Vice President of Research; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital, US.
EP News Bureau– Mumbai