Overview
Department of Pharmacology at KIMS has taken up new fields of research through activities like monitoring adverse drug reactions vis a vis Pharmacovigilance as well as providing updated information on new and established drugs through Drug Information Centre since 2018. It has several important initiatives to its credit such as Animal House for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals, Antibiotic Stewardship Project, Prescription Auditing and Computer Aided Learning process. The Department has so far published 150 research articles in national and international journals.
Services Provided
- Pharmacovigilance is the science relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has initiated a nation-wide Pharmacovigilance Program of India – PvPI, under which 311 Adverse Drug Research centres have been established at different medical colleges, hospitals. The Department of Pharmacology, KIMS has been functioning as one of the AMCs since September.
- It has several important initiatives to its credit such as Animal House for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals, Drug Information Centre (DIC) established since 2018, Antibiotic Stewardship Project, Prescription Auditing and Computer Aided Learning to assist learning of Pharmacology in an effective way among students.
- The Department of Pharmacology has one Clinical Laboratory, one Experimental Pharmacology Laboratory and one Post-graduate Research Laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment available for the various studies and experiments.
Research/Publications/Awards
The Department has so far published 150 research articles in national and international journals. While Dr Chaitali Pattanayak was awarded Dr J.K Mohanty Prize for Best Paper presentation in IPS-OSB Conference, Dr Sougata Sarkar was conferred Dr J.K Mohanty Prize for Best Paper presentation in IPS-OSB conference 2017.
Dr Vartika Srivastava- Published a book “Postgraduate Pharmacology” along with Dr Sougata Sarkar in 2020 and two short-term studentship projects (STS-ICMR) were completed by Ms Divyani Jena and Ms Anoushka Prakash under the guidance of Dr Vartika Srivastava in the year 2019 and 2020 respectively
The Department organised a CME on December 5, 2015 with the topic “Pharmacovigilance and therapeutic drug monitoring” and on April 9, 2022 with the topic “Medication errors and its prevention.’’
Faculty
S.no | Name of faculty | Designation | Qualification | Publications |
1 | Dr Mangala Charana Das | Professor and HOD | MBBS, MD | 50 |
2. | Dr Jyotirmoyee Jena | Professor | MBBS, MD | 35 |
3. | Dr Chaitali Pattanayak | Professor | MBBS, MD | 21 |
4. | Dr Ratikanta Tripathy | Associate Professor | MBBS, MD | 19 |
5. | Dr Vartika Srivastava | Assistant Professor | MBBS, MD, PGDHA | 19 |
6. | Dr Harish Chandra Chaudhury | Assistant Professor | MBBS, MD | 3 |