Pharmacology

Location -

1^st floor, College building, H.B.T. Medical College & Dr. R.N. Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Bhaktivedanta Marg, Juhu, Andheri West, Pin-400056.

Email ID -

[email protected]

Contact Us -

022-26210040-Ext: 129

Teaching Faculty

SR. NO.	NAME OF FACULTY	DESIGNATION
1	Dr. Prasad Pandit	Professor & Head
2	Dr. Mrs. Kiran Bhave	Professor
3	Dr. Tejal Patel	Professor Additional
4	Dr. Manish Kokne	Assistant Professor
5	Dr. Akshay Chaware	Assistant Professor
6	Dr. Chetan Phirke	Senior Resident
7	Dr. Alisha Naik	Senior Resident
8	Dr. Kajal Gupta	Senior Resident
9	Dr. Ajinkya Parhe	Senior Resident
10	Dr. Manali Nikumbh	Senior Resident
11	Dr. Bushra Sayed	Senior Resident
12	Dr. Ram Mahurkar	Junior Resident
13	Dr. Daya Tupe	Junior Resident
14	Dr. Mayank Pradhan	Junior Resident
15	Dr. Muniba Hassan	Junior Resident
16	Dr. Radhika Mittal	Junior Resident
17	Dr. Ankita Dhakne	Junior Resident
18	Dr. Neel Pandit	Junior Resident
19	Dr. Yogesh Shergin	Junior Resident
20	Dr. Mohd. Umar	Junior Resident
21	Dr. Kunj Patel	Junior Resident
22	Dr. Anurag Motwani	Junior Resident
23	Dr. Kamaludin Zakir	Junior Resident
24	Dr. Harshad Raundal	Junior Resident
25	Dr. Aakash Giri	Junior Resident
26	Dr. Pranao Lepse	Junior Resident

Non Teaching Staff

About the Faculty -

Have undergone

CISP training program

GCP training program

Medical Education Technology and Training(MET)

Bioethics 3T training approved by UNESCO

Activities Of The Department :

1. Academic Activity

I. Time Table: 2nd Year MBBS Teaching Schedule

TIME	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY
8-9AM	Pharmacology	Pathology	Pharmacology	Microbiology	Pathology	Microbiology
9-10AM	Microbiology	Pharmacology	Forensic Medicine (week 2 & Week 4) Clinical Lecture (Week 1, 3 & 5)	Pathology	Community Medicine	Clinical Lecture
10.10AM to 1.10PM			CLINICAL POSTING			Clinical Lecture (10am to 11AM)
1.10-1.30pm			LUNCH BREAK			11.00AM to 1.00 PM SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Community Medicine
1.30 pm to 3.30 pm	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP: Pharmacology-Batch A	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP: Pathology Batch A Microbiology Batch B	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Pharmacology (Week 1, 3, 5)	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Pathology Batch B Microbiology Batch A	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Pathology Batch A Microbiology Batch B	SPORTS & Extracurricular Activities: February 2021 to May 2021
3.30 pm to 5.30 pm	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Pharmacology-Batch B	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP: Microbiology Batch A Pathology Batch B	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Forensic Medicine Week 2 & 4	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Pathology Batch A Microbiology Batch B	SGT/ Tutorials/ Seminars/ DOAP:Pathology Batch B Microbiology Batch A

II. Results: Passing Percentage

UG Time Table

I. Time Table: UG Lecture Schedule 2023

SR. NO.	DATE	DAY	TOPIC	TEACHER
1	22.05.23	Mon	Diuretics – I	Dr Tejal Patel
2	23.05.23	Tues	Diuretics – II	Dr Tejal Patel
3	24.05.23	Wed	Drugs acting on Renin angiotensin aldosterone system	Dr Manish Kokne
4	29.05.23	Mon	Anti hypertensive -I	Dr Tejal Patel
5	30.05.23	Tues	Anti hypertensive -II	Dr Tejal Patel
6	31.05.23	Wed	Antianginal drugs -I(Afternoon)	Dr Kiran Bhave
7	31.05.23	Wed	Antianginal drugs -II(Afternoon)	Dr Kiran Bhave
8	05.06.23	Mon	Drugs for Congestive cardiac failure	Dr Chetan Phirke
9	06.06.23	Tues	Pharmacology of Anti-arrhythmic drugs	Dr Kiran Bhave
10	07.06.23	Wed	Coagulants & Anticoagulants(Morning)	Dr Manish Kokane
11	07.06.23	Wed	Autocoids(Afternoon)	Dr Vrushali Aringale
12	07.06.23	Wed	Antihistaminics(Afternoon)	Dr Vrushali Aringale
13	12.06.23	Mon	Pharmacology of Thrombolytic & antiplatelets	Dr Manish Kokne
14	13.06.23	Tues	Pharmacology of drugs for dyslipidemia	Dr Alisha Naik
15	14.06.23	Wed	Treatment of Shock(Morning)	Dr Manish Kokne
16	19.06.23	Mon	Pharmacology of Bronchial Asthma, Cough and COPD	Dr Chetan Phirke
17	20.06.23	Tues	Local Anesthetics	Dr Namra Sayed
18	21.06.23	Wed	Drugs for Peptic Ulcer	Dr Akshay Chaware

26.06.23 to 14.07.23 – First Terminal Examination

SR. NO.	DATE	DAY	TOPIC	TEACHER
1	20-03-23	Mon	Introduction to Pharmacology	Dr PR Pandit
2	21-03-23	Tues	Pharmacokinetics-I (Absorption)	Dr ML Kokne
3	27-03-23	Mon	Pharmacokinetics-II (Distribution)	Dr ML Kokne
4	28-03-23	Tues	Pharmacokinetics-III (Metabolism)	Dr ML Kokne
5	29-03-23	Wed	Pharmacokinetics-IV (Excretion)	Dr ML Kokne
6	03-04-23	Mon	Pharmacodynamics – I	Dr TC Patel
7	05-04-23	Wed	Pharmacodynamics –II	Dr TC Patel
8	10-04-23	Mon	Adverse drug reactions	Dr Vrushali Aringale
9	11-04-23	Tues	Introduction to autonomic nervous system	Dr TC Patel
10	12-04-23	Wed	Adrenergic Drugs	Dr TC Patel
11	17-04-23	Mon	Alpha blockers	Dr KA Bhave
12	18-04-23	Tues	Beta blockers	Dr KA Bhave
13	19-04-23	Wed	Cholinergic transmission & Agonists	Dr Namra Sayed
14	24-04-23	Mon	Anticholinesterases	Dr Chetan Phirke
15	25-04-23	Tues	Anticholinergics	Dr KA Bhave
16	26-04-23	Wed	Skeletal Muscle Relaxants	Dr Akshay Chaware

II. Time Table: 1st Term, Tutorial Program for 3rd CBME Batch 2023-24

SR. NO.	DATE	DAY	TOPICS
1.	20/3/2023	Mon	Routes of drug administration
2.	27/3/2023	Mon	Factors affecting drug action
3.	29/3/2023	Wed	Problems of Pharmacokinetics
4.	3/4/2023	Mon	Drug- receptor interaction
5.	5/4/2023	Wed	Anemia- Iron deficiency
6.	10/4/2023	Mon	Pernicious anemia & Megaloblastic anemia
7.	17/4/2023	Mon	Treatment of constipation
8.	19/4/2023	Wed	Treatment of diarrhea, IBD and ulcerative colitis
9.	5/06/2023	Mon	Problems of Pharmacokinetics
10.	12/06/2023	Mon	Antiemetics and prokinetic agents

III.Time Table: 1st Term, Self-Directed Learning for 3rd CBME Batch 2023-24

SR. NO.	DATE	DAY	TOPICS
1.	24/4/2023	Mon	Sources of drugs

VI.Time Table: 1st Term, Practical Program for 3rd CBME Batch 2023-24

1st -Term Practicals, 3rd CBME Batch_2023

Time- Mon -1.30PM

Batch A- Roll nos 1-100 1:30 to 3.00PM

Batch B – Roll nos 101 onwards 3.00 to 4.30PM

26.06.23 to 14.07.23 – First Terminal Examination

SR. NO.	DATE	DAY	TOPIC	TEACHER
1.	20/3/2023	Mon	Introduction to Practical Pharmacology	Dr Kiran Bhave
2.	27/3/2023	Mon	Prescription Writing	Dr Tejal Patel
3.	3/4/2023	Mon	Oral Dosage form – I	Dr Namra Sayed
4.	10/4/2023	Mon	Oral Dosage form – II	Dr Vrushali Aringale
5.	17/4/2023	Mon	Topical Dosage form	Dr Chetan Phirke
6.	24/4/2023	Mon	Parenteral Dosage form	Dr Akshay Chaware
7	5/6/2023		Pharmacokinetics – I	Dr Alisha Naik
8	12/6/2023		Pharmacokinetics – II	Dr Namra Sayed
9	19/06/2023		FDDC and Criticism – I	Dr Tejal Patel
10	19/6/2023		Prescription writing – I	Dr Kiran Bhave

PG Time Table

PG Timetable 2023
Journal Club Time Table

Sr. No.	Date	Topic	Name of the PG Student
1.	03/01/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – PRISMA	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
2.	10/01/2023	Drug Promotional Literature	Dr. Daya Tupe
3.	17/01/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article -ARRIVE	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
4.	24/01/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – CONSORT	Dr. Neil Pandit
5.	31/01/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – STROBE	Dr. Radhika Mittal
6.	07/02/2023	Drug Promotional Literature	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
7.	14/02/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – CONSORT	Dr. Muniba Hasan
8.	21/02/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article -ARRIVE & DPL	Dr. Neil Pandit
9.	28/02/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – CONSORT	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
10.	08/03/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – STROBE	Dr. Radhika Mittal
11.	14/03/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – PRISMA	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
12.	21/03/2023	Drug Promotional Literature	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
13.	28/03/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article -ARRIVE	Dr. Daya Tupe
14.	05/04/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – CONSORT & DPL	Dr. Neil Pandit
15.	11/04/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – STROBE	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
16.	18/04/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – PRISMA & DPL	Dr. Radhika Mittal
17.	25/04/2023	Drug Promotional Literature	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
18.	02/05/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article -ARRIVE & DPL	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
19.	09/05/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – CONSORT	Dr. Daya Tupe
20.	16/05/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – STROBE & DPL	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
21.	23/05/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – PRISMA	Dr. Muniba Hasan
22.	30/05/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article -ARRIVE	Dr. Neil Pandit
23.	06/06/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – CONSORT	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
24.	13/06/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – STROBE	Dr. Radhika Mittal
25.	20/06/2023	Critical Appraisal of an Article – PRISMA	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
26.	27/06/2023	Drug Promotional Literature	Dr. Ram Mahurkar

Seminar Time Table

Sr. No.	Date	Topic	Name of the PG Student
1.	07/01/2023	Pharmacotherapy of Diabetes Mellitus	Dr. Muniba Hasan
2.	14/01/2023	Recent advances in Diabetes Mellitus	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
3.	21/01/2023	Drugs Modulating sodium channel	Dr. Radhika Mittal
4.	28/01/2023	Placebo & Nocebo	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
5.	04/02/2023	Drug Dependence & Abuse	Dr. Neil Pandit
6.	11/02/2023	Drug Tolerance	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
7.	11/02/2023	Biosimilars	Dr. Muniba Hasan
8.	17/02/2023	Enzymes in therapy	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
9.	25/02/2023	Structure Activity Relationship	Dr. Radhika Mittal
10.	04/03/2023	Chrono pharmacology	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
11.	11/03/2023	Chiral Drugs	Dr. Neil Pandit
12.	18/03/2023	Pharmacoeconomics	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
13.	25/03/2023	PPI -Issues & Challenges in Prescribing	Dr. Daya Tupe
14.	01/04/2023	Alternatives to animal experimentation in Pharmacology	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
15.	08/04/2023	Teratogenicity	Dr. Radhika Mittal
16.	15/04/2023	Pharmacovigilance	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
17.	21/04/2023	Drugs in old age	Dr. Neil Pandit
18.	29/04/2023	Surrogate Markers in clinical trial	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
19.	06/05/2023	Pharmacotherapy of Osteoporosis	Dr. Daya Tupe
20.	13/05/2023	Recent advances in Osteoporosis	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
21.	20/05/2023	Pharmacotherapy of Parkinson Disease	Dr. Muniba Hasan
22.	27/05/2023	Recent advances in Parkinson Disease	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
23.	03/06/2023	Pharmacogenomics	Dr. Radhika Mittal
24.	10/06/2023	Pharmacoepidemiology	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
25.	17/06/2023	Drug Repurposing	Dr. Neil Pandit
26.	24/06/2023	Ethical issues in drug research	Dr. Yogesh Shergin

Experiment Time Table

Sr. No.	Date	Topic	Name of the PG Student
1.	05/01/2023	Photoactometer	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
2.	12/01/2023	Eddy’s Hot Plate Analgesiometer	Dr. Daya Tupe
3.	19/01/2023	Animal Handling – Rat	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
4.	02/02/2023	Animal Handling – Rabbit	Dr. Neil Pandit
5.	09/02/2023	Animal Handling – Mice	Dr. Radhika Mittal
6.	16/02/2023	Animal Handling – Guinea pig	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
7.	23/02/2023	Animal Feeding	Dr. Muniba Hasan
8.	02/03/2023	Animal Handling – Rat	Dr. Neil Pandit
9.	09/03/2023	Animal Handling – Rabbit	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
10.	16/03/2023	Animal Handling – Mice	Dr. Radhika Mittal
11.	23/03/2023	Animal Handling – Guinea pig	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
12.	06/04/2023	Animal IP Injection	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
13.	13/04/2023	Animal Retrobulbar Blood collection	Dr. Daya Tupe
14.	20/04/2023	Animal Feeding	Dr. Neil Pandit
15.	27/04/2023	Spectrophotometer	Dr. Yogesh Shergin
16.	04/05/2023	Animal Feeding	Dr. Radhika Mittal
17.	11/05/2023	Histamine Aerosol Chamber	Dr. Ankita Dhakane
18.	18/05/2023	Animal IP Injection	Dr. Ram Mahurkar
19.	25/05/2023	PH Meter	Dr. Daya Tupe
20.	01/06/2023	Animal Rat tail blood collection	Dr. Mayank Pradhan
21.	08/06/2023	Tablet Disintegration test apparatus	Dr. Muniba Hasan
22.	15/06/2023	Animal Feeding	Dr. Neil Pandit
23.	22/06/2023	Animal Handling – Mice	Dr. Yogesh Shergin

Other Activities –

Pharmacovigilance
Institutional Ethics Committee
Dr. Ram Mahurkar & Dr. Daya Tupe will join the Medical Internship Programme from 6th January 2023 till 6th March 2023 & Dr. Mayank Pradhan & Dr. Muniba Hasan will join the Medical Internship Programme from 13th March 2023 till 13th May 2023.

2. Undergone the CISP training program

CISP training program
GCP training program
Medical Education Technology and Training(MET)
Bioethics 3T training approved by UNESCO

4. CME, Conferences:

- Bioethics sensitization programme for faculty was organised on 9th October 2015
- Bioethics “End of life issues” was organized on 15th March 2016
- World Bioethics Day was celebrated on 19th Oct 2016 on the theme ‘Human Dignity & Human Rights
- Organized a workshop on ‘Good Clinical Practices (GCP)’for the faculty of the institute and also outside the institution on 8th Sept 2017.
- V. A workshop on Communication skill for 2nd year MBBS students as a part of Bioethics activity for the year 2018 on two separate days, on 5th& 12th February 2018.
- A workshop was organized on “Clinician’s role in Pharmacovigilance ” for faculty as well as post graduate students of our institution as well as outside institution , on 31st of August 2018.
- As a part of Bioethics Day activity a workshop on the theme ‘Solidarity and Cooperation’ was organized for undergraduate students on 16th Oct 2018.
- Training for ADR monitoring for doctors and nurses.
- Research Methodology Workshop was organized for undergraduate MBBS students on 8th March, 2019.
- World Bioethics Day Celebration on 17th October 2019- Students Debate on topics related to respect for Cultural Diversity.fe

5. Vision of the Department

I. Academic :
- To educate the undergraduate medical students with the help of interactive learning techniques.
- To introduce symposiums, debates and creative group activities for undergraduate medical students to inculcate effective communication skills and kinship.
- To acquaint the undergraduate medical students with the concept of research by involving them in various short research projects.

II. Pharmacovigilance :
- To sensitize undergraduate & post graduate medical & nursing students, institutional faculty and physicians towards the importance of identifying, assessing and reporting adverse drug reactions.
- To regularly assess the adverse drug reaction reports and forward the same to the National Coordination Centre, Ghaziabad.
- To organize programs for medical healthcare professionals to instill the importance of drug safety monitoring.

III. Bioethics Unit :
- To arrange various programmes for faculty, students and allied healthcare professionals regarding the bioethical principles as defined by UNESCO.

IV. DRUG INFORMATION DESK (In the pipeline) :
- To establish a drug information desk, which will help provide a better understanding of the prescription to the patients.
- To educate the patients and the community about the correct use and the perils of misuse of medicines.

V. Overall aim is to build socially acceptable medical graduates through leadership in education, research and to be recognized as graduating highly skilled doctors, researchers and health care professionals.

Awards And Achievements Received By Students And Faculty Since Incetion

Faculty:

Dr. Prasad Pandit-

Accredited National 3T Plus Trainer/ETTC for Bioethics, UNESCO Chair OF Bioethics (Haifa).
Undergone the CISP training program

Dr. Tejal Patel

Received FAIMER FELLOWSHIP from GSMC-KEMH Faimer regional center in 2016.
Assisted in writing a booklet ‘Prescription Writing’ for II year MBBS students.
Written a Chapter on ‘Media in Medical Education’ In PS Bhuiyan. NN. Rege, A. N Supe (Eds) The Art of Teaching Medical Students (p 178-189) Read Elsevier India Pvt Ltd.3rd Ed 2015.
Co-author in ‘PHARMACOLOGY’ Specific learning objectives.
Received 3rd Prize for poster presentation on ‘Impact of an Educational pprogram to promote Research Ethics in Undergraduate Medical Students’ at a National Conference on Health Profession Education, organized by Maulana Azad Medical College in 2015
Won the O.D.Gulati Prize for the project titled ‘Antiplatelet effect of lycopene in hyperlipidemic patients- An in vitro study’ at 50th Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society ‘IPSCON2017’ in 2018
Undergone the CISP training program

Dr Medhinee Kulkarni

Selected as a Foundation for advancement of International medical education and research (FAIMER) fellow .

Dr. Maheshi Chhaya

Dr. Maheshi Chhaya & Dr. Disha Rambhia authors for the book Drug Update: A Compendium

Student Achievements in Pharmacology

Suyash Vanarse , Danesh Gandhi, and Viraj Mohite, 2nd year students received the Runner up trophy (second prize) in the ‘AS Paranjpe – Zonal Pharmacology quiz competition’ held at Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital and Indian Society for rational therapeutics, on 27th August, 2018.

Awarded 2nd prize to Suyash Vanarse

Danesh Gandhi (2nd year students) and Dev Kansara (3rd year student) at the Intercollegiate Pharmacology Quiz, Les Quizerebles, Auxesis 2018, Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai on August, 2018.

Awarded Second prize

For the poster presentation at “Confluence 2018” at Seth GS Medical College & KEM hospital for project titled” Knowledge, attitude and practices on generic medicine among local medical practitioners in Mumbai city – A questionnaire-based study”- in August 2018.

Second prize was awarded to Mr. Krishna Mundada

A second MBBS students for presenting a poster on “Knowledge, attitude and practices on generic medicine among local medical practitioners in Mumbai city – A questionnaire-based study”- in an International medical Conference Respirare at BJ Medical College on 4th August, 2018.

Ashwini Ratnakar

Shambhavi Sarma and Rahul Gindra, 2nd year MBBS students received appreciation for being 3rd runner up in the ‘AS Paranjpe – Zonal Pharmacology quiz competition’ held at Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital and Indian Society for rational therapeutics on 29th August 2019