Faculty - Bangalore Campus

Dr. Pravina Koteshwar - Principal
MBBS, MD (Pharmacology)
A Clinical Pharmacologist, graduated from the Karnataka institute of Medical sciences, Hubli, with research and academic interest and experience of 10 years. She has worked as a Medical Advisor & Head of Pharmacology Dept at R&D Centre, Natural Remedies, Bangalore. She is actively involved in teaching, administrative and Corporate Training activities at ICRI for the past 4 years. She is the national coordinator and Course Director for M.Sc. Clinical Research from Cranfield University in India. Being a recognized teacher from Cranfield University, she has contributed in setting up academic standards at ICRI, India. She has initiated industry-academia collaborative research and training activities and as a founder and member secretary of ICRI Independent Ethics committee - Bangalore (IIECB), her contributions to Bioethics and Clinical Research is remarkable. Her research interests include neurodegenerative and metabolic disorders. She has many national and international publications to her credit. She is also a member of various Scientific Committees and prestigious organizations. She has represented the faculty board of ICRI in the inspection of British Accreditation Council for the international campus at UK.

Mr. Narasimha Murthy - Associate Professor
MSc (Statistics)
Presently working as an Associate professor at ICRI since 2008, before joining this institution he worked as a faculty in various medical colleges in Bangalore city teaching medical statistics & Clinical epidemiology to medical, dental and nursing students at under-graduate and post-graduate level for nearly 36 years. He is a statistical consultant for several industries who are doing clinical research. He was also associated with WHO projects. He has several publications to his credit in national and international journals. He is a founder member of “ANUSANDHANA” which provides consultancy in statistics for research projects.

Mrs. V. Vijaya Lakshmi - Assistant Professor
M. Pharm
She is a post graduate from Andhra University, topper and gold medalist in her post graduation and graduation. A keen academician and working on getting a Doctorate in Philosophy, she has been associated with ICRI since its inception four years ago, also working as a regional coordinator for MSc Clinical Research, foundation year. She is currently involved in projects related to Clinical Research.

Mrs. G. Swapna - Assistant Professor
M. Pharma – Pharmacology
Having done her post graduation in Pharmacology from Sri Padmavati Mahila University with research topics in the areas of depression and memory, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Pharmacology. She underwent industrial training in Biological Evans Pvt. Ltd. and is a gold medalist in both graduation and post graduation at University level. She is a life member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association. She has presented papers & posters at various conferences. She is associated with ICRI as Assistant Professor since the past four years. She has an experience of regional coordinator for MSc Senior batch (Cranfield year) and Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research at Bangalore campus.

Dr. R. Rohini – Associate Professor
Presently working as an Associate Professor at ICRI, she is a Post graduate with M.Sc., MBA added with her PhD in the field of Hospital Management along with PG in QM & AHO. She has a rich experience in hospital quality management system added with more than 5 years of experience in the teaching line. She has been providing guidance to PhD students pertaining to healthcare management projects. To her credit she has many publications in national & international journals and presentations in various scientific forums.

Mrs. Monica Abrol - Assistant Professor
MSc (Microbiology)
Mrs. Abrol is a Microbiologist with an Industry and Academic experience of 9 years in QC, R&D, Project, Resource and People Management, Career Counseling, Clinical Data Management, Academic and Corporate trainings. She has worked in Biotech Industries for 3 years as a Microbiologist. She moved to Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. in the CDM division for 5 years and was trained at Cambridge, USA to transition the process to India. She has worked and lead studies on Translational Research, Women’s Health, Musculoskeletal, Cardiovascular, Haemophilia, and Vaccines Therapeutic areas. She is currently associated with ICRI as an Assistant Professor and involved in training CDM modules and corporate training programmes.

Dr. Shubha. R - Lecturer
BDS, MSc Clinical Research
She is a B.D.S graduate from M. S. Ramaiah Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore and a postgraduate in Clinical Research from ICRI Bangalore. She has over 7 years of experience as a practicing Dentist. She has been associated with ICRI for over two years as a Lecturer and has also done a project in Pharmacovigilance. She is regional coordinator for MSc in Clinical Research Cranfield year and is also in-charge Quality Assurance personnel of Ethics Committee. Is actively involved in guiding students, involved in various industrial research projects, ethics committee related work and also has conducted various Training Programs on Clinical research topics for the Industry.

Dr. Lincy Jaison - Lecturer
BDS, PGDCR (ICRI)
Dr. Lincy is a Dental Surgeon from Dayananda Sagar College of Dental Sciences, Bangalore and has completed PGDCR from ICRI, Bangalore. She has been practicing dentistry since 10 years and is still continuing the practice. She has also worked as a Research Co-coordinator at a reputed research centre at Bangalore and has a very good experience on complete Clinical Trial Management. She is currently associated with ICRI as a Lecturer. She is also the regional coordinator for PG diploma in Clinical Trial Management and PG Diploma in Clinical research. She also coordinates the ICR UK activities at ICRI. She is member of Ethics committee and Scientific Review Committee at ICRI. She is actively involved in teaching and guiding students.

Ms. Diana Francis - Research Associate
BSc Biotechnology, M.Sc Clinical Research
Ms. Diana Francis has completed her M.Sc. in Clinical Research from ICRI Bangalore. She has done a project on Prevalence of self-medication with antimicrobials in Bangalore. Is actively involved in Ethics Committee (IIEC-B) and Scientific Review Committee (ICRI SRC) related work, industrial research projects, corporate training program and actively involved in teaching and guiding students in their research projects.

Dr. (Col) S. C. Mohanty - Assistant Professor & HOD ICRI Health
MBBS, DPM, HA (NIHFW) MBA-HCA (FMS- Delhi), PGDPC, MS Psychotherapy & Counseling
As a competent teacher and academician in the field of Health & Hospital Administration, rich with 34 years of commendable service in Army Medical Core with administrative responsibilities in various segments along with 4 years of experience with 250 bedded multispecialty hospitals. During his service career he has earned a lot of appreciation and received a lot of awards for his dedicated work. During his commanding officer’s tenure in military hospitals, the Hospital was awarded the ‘Best Hospital Trophy’ for Southern zone. Besides, he has received ‘Commendation Medal’ for the provision of best healthcare facilities for the patient care. His key result area in the field of hospital administration is ‘Role of hospital structure is the achievement of patient satisfaction’. He had presented a number of papers in various seminars during his service career and one of these important paper presented at “Qualicon Conference at AIIMS, New Delhi is ‘Patient Satisfaction survey, an important tool in quality assurance programme in a multispecialty hospital’. The paper is based on the study conducted at few military hospitals during his service career. At present, he is studying the ‘Role of modernized care in multispecialty hospitals with quality assurance programme in achievement of patient satisfaction’.

Mrs. Gayathri Trilok - Lecturer
CDM, M.Com, PG in HR
Her 10 years experience in various fields includes companies like Macmillan India Ltd., a Scientific Journal Publishing Company for 4.5 years in pre-editing department, Accenture BPO Service-Clinical Data Management project for 3.5 years. She was trained in Clinical Data Management, Standard Practice Instruction and Standard Operating Procedure for a month in USA (Philadelphia) and got certified in CDM by the client and with Institute of Clinical Research India (ICRI) as Assistant Manager for Clinical Data Management, and also coordinating short term courses for students.

Mrs. Ritu Sharma - Lecturer
BSc (Bio-Chemistry), MBA (Hospital Management)
Mrs. Ritu is a science graduate and an MBA in Hospital and Healthcare Management from Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur (2004) a leading institute in the field of health management in this country. She has undergone training at Escorts Hospital and has worked with Moolchand Hospital, New Delhi where she conducted the Business Process re-engineering study for the hospital and was the coordinator and executor for the consolidation of ISO certification and subsequently implementation of the accreditation programme of the hospital for accreditation by National Accreditation Board for Hospitals (NABH) and Healthcare Facilities. Her major expertise lies with Hospital planning and designing and her last assignment was with Apollo project division. Working in this area she has also executed Business plans for new hospital projects.

Ms. Deepa - Research Associate
PGD ACR
She is a graduate in Life Science from National College, Bangalore and has completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Research from the Institute of Clinical Research. She has experience in Medical Tourism in South India and currently is working as a Research Associate at ICRI, Bangalore campus.

Dr. Shweta Gaur - Asst. Professor - Medical Tourism
PhD (Tourism), JNU, New Delhi
She has a Doctorate in 'Tourism and Development' and has worked with EQUATIONS, on a UNDP and Ministry of Tourism's project 'Endogenous Rural Tourism'. She has been the HOD for the Tourism department at the 'Academy for Business Management and Tourism Research' and faculty for tourism at Jyoti Niwas College, Bangalore. She has presented several papers at different conferences and also has publications in reputed journals. She started her academic career as a Research Assistant with Prof. Sathish Kumar, CSRD/SSS, JNU, New Delhi (2002). She also taught at the under graduate level at the university during the tenure of her PhD at JNU.

Dr. B.R. Sainath Iyer – Senior Professor
M.B.B.S. M.D (Pharmacology)
A Pharmacologist from M.P. Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, Gujarat with Clinical Pharmacology training from KEM, Bombay and PGI, Chandigarh has teaching, research administrative experience since 1968. He worked for 20 years at Medical Colleges in Gujarat State Govt. Service and took VRS as Prof. & Head of Pharmacology to go and work in Fiji School of Medicine, Fiji. He worked there from 1988 in both Traditional Medical Teaching and PBL. Returned to India in 2005 and worked in Kesar Sal Medical College, Ahmedabad and P.S. Medical College, Karamsad as Professor. He has also worked as a Prof. and PG incharge at C.U. Shah Medical College, Surendranagar till May ’09. Later, he joined ICRI, Bangalore as Senior Prof. Pharmacology. For Dr. Iyer, teaching has been the main passion. He has been a PG teacher for years and has trained PG students. He has published several papers and is a member of many medical organizations. He has also been the editor of Fiji Medical Association. He headed Ayurveda Research Unit as the Prof. in Baroda Medical College and has been the Chairman of National Committee for Traditional Medicine in Fiji, held the post of President of National Anti-Smoking society of Fiji (NASSOF) for years and had put in effort to bring in Fiji National Tobacco control policies. Attended many National and International conferences and presented many papers and chaired many sessions. Dr. Iyer has conducted many “World No Tobacco Day” functions in Fiji in collaboration with Government of Fiji and WHO (Western Pacific). He has been the President of the Gujarat IPS branch, Gujarat Medical Teachers Association and a keen sports man and sports administrator. Has served as a Major in Territorial Army (Medical) for many years.

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