Media Release
Mangaluru, Apr 25: Indian Pharmaceutical Association, D.K District Local Branch, Mangalore in association with Srinivas College of Pharmacy has organised two day National conference with theme “Innovative Practices in Clinical Training & Patient Safety” on April 25th and 26th.
The conference was inaugurated by T P Sujith, Deputy Drugs Controller, Govt. of Karnataka, Mangalore on 25 th April 2023, while addressing the gathering he said the need of the day is to motivate pharmacists in patient care and adverse drug reaction reporting and further said, there is lot of scope of improvement in pharmacy field. He has released Conference Abstract book on this occasion.
Raj Vaidya, E C Member, Community Pharmacy Section of International Pharmaceutical Federation, Netherlands has delivered keynote address and stated that Pharm D students were the future of India in patient care and patient safety. He has released a book on compilation of published research articles 2022 of Srinivas College of Pharmacy.
Dr A Srinivas Rao, vice resident, A Shama Rao Foundation, pro chancellor, Srinivas University, Mangalore in his presidential remarks congratulated the young pharmacists on this occasion and expressed the need of collaborative research in pharmacy with Artificial intelligence, Nano technology to reach the global needs and released the college magazine Pharma Shree. Guest of honour, Udaykishore P, assistant drugs controller, Mangalore expressed that only through pharmacists awareness, one can bring improvement in patient care and ADR reporting. B N Babu, assistant drugs controller Mangalore and Dr Satish S, coordinator of the programme were present during the programme.
Dr A.R.Shabaraya, principal Srinivas College of Pharmacy and President & Executive members, IPA were honoured for getting “IPA local branch Excellence award for the year 2020” at the national level.
Dr A.R.Shabaraya, principal Srinivas College of Pharmacy and President, IPA, welcomed the participants and introduced the guests.
This conference had oral and poster scientific sessions. More than 500 original scientific papers were presented in the poster scientific session. Apart from this, conference also conducted quiz and Patient Information Leaflet completion (PIL) on patient safety.
More than 550 delegates had participated in the conference. Dr Padmavathi P Prabhu, professor, Blessy Fernandes and Sara Rafiq anchored the programme. Dr EVS Subrahmanyam, professor, Srinivas College of Pharmacy and vice president, IPA, Mangalore proposed vote of thanks.