Nominations invited for Healthcare & Pharma HR of The Year, HarNeedi TREE Awards 2012

Express Healthcare, Express Pharma and Padmashree Dr DY Patil University along with HarNeedi.com have teamed up to honour the HR professionals who have contributed relentlessly and continue to propel Indian healthcare and pharma industries on a growth path.

As India’s number one jobsite for healthcare and pharma professionals, HarNeedi.com is an offering from Makro Group launched in 2007 to address crucial manpower solutions to these two industries. Through keen observation of recruitment trends over the years, HarNeedi.com has acknowledged the immense challenges and contributions of HR professionals and therefore instituted the HR of The Year HarNeedi TREE Awards 2012.

Explaining the thought process behind the Awards, Mahesh Malneedi, Chief Executive Officer, HarNeedi.com said, “Today HR plays a dynamic role to hunt, recruit, manage and retain human resources for an organisation. In fact HR is like a tree, supporting thousands of professionals who dwell and grow along and get introduced, impacted, mentored and climb on the ladder of success.”

Dr Sanjay Oak, Vice Chancellor, Padmashree Dr DY Patil University opine, “HR plays a silent and vital role in both healthcare and pharma industries. Such events will not only boost the HR leaders but also provide an excellent platform to discuss current and future HR problems and solutions.”

Gaurav Malhotra, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Patni Healthcare, also a member of panel of judges explained the crunch, “Talent attraction, retention and development are key challenges in healthcare today and it would be exciting to see and analyse how the HR managers successfully manage.”

The panel of judges comprises Dr Sanjay Oak, Vice Chancellor of DY Patil University, Mumbai; Gaurav Malhotra, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Patni Healthcare; Viveka Roychowdhury, Editor, Express Healthcare and Express Pharma and Sudhir Bahl, Co- Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Irene Healthcare, Kawaljeet Oberoi, Chief Nursing Officer, Gleneagles Khubchandani Hospitals, Biblob B Banerjee, GM HR, GSK,with more confirmations in the pipeline.

Nominations are invited from the pharma and healthcare fraternity nationally for various categories. The nominations will be put through a stringent procedure where they will be screened on various parameters by the panel of judges.

“The entire healthcare and pharma community is invited to nominate HR professionals. Here I see an opportunity for industry to display its solidarity by honouring our HR professionals. We hope the HarNeedi TREE Awards 2012 will serve as an appreciation and salutation to help our HR colleagues shine and grow into a much bigger tree to accommodate more and more talent,” mentioned Richard D’silva, Senior Marketing Manager, HarNeedi.com explaining the process and procedure followed for these awards.

“Being associated as knowledge partners with HarNeedi TREE Awards 2012, we stand to applause the selfless work being performed by HR personnel in both the sectors,” stated Dr Nitin Sippy, Asst Professor and Course In-charge – MBA Health and Hospital Management, DY Patil University. The awards will be announced and given away during the conference focussing on HR issues prevalent in the healthcare and pharma sectors. Dates and venue will be announced shortly.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai