MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:

• HIV-TB Expert member: Technical Resource Group of NACO for Adults and adolescents living with HIV, Ministry of Health & FW, GOI
• HIV-TB Expert member: Technical Resource Group of NACO for Paediatric populations living with HIV, Ministry of Health & FW, GOI
• Technical expert: HIV-TB, Delhi State AIDS Control Society, Govt. of NCT, Delhi
• Member, Faculty of Fellowship in HIV Medicine
• Life Member, Association of Physicians of India
• Medical Council of India - Specialist
• Delhi Medical Council Registration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Internal Medicine physician providing consultation to patients from diverse backgrounds on disorders and comorbidities,
• including: diabetes, hypertension seizure disorders, deep vein thrombosis, chronic anaemias in TB and respiratory cases as well as medical complications and drug side effects, such as: dyselectrolytemia, cardiac arrhythmias, nephro and neurotoxicities, see more than fifty new and nearly hundred new follow up cases of TB-diabetes cases in a month
• Call upon expertise in management of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB-HIV cases (MDR/XDR-TB)
• Have special expertise in management of adverse drug reactions of second line anti-tubercular drugs including the new TB drugs-Bedaquiline and Delamanid and am member of the Insitute’s Pharmacovigilance Commitee since its inception in 2017
• Facilitated management of ADRs of new TB drugs (Bedaquiline and Delamanid) at NITRD; prepared two internal documents on drug co-prescriptions and cardiac toxicity of BDQ (please see Annexures 1 and 2)
• Responsible for writing technical documents for the Institute such as Memorandums of understanding, collaborative research grants, WHO collaborating Centre proposal, compiling and editing research abstracts booklet, are to name some