Association Activities

IPGA-Kerala State Branch in association with Kerala State Drugs Control Enforcement Officers Association (KSDCE ) organized a webinar on 12th June, 2021. The programme was inaugurated by Mr.John K.J, Drugs Controller, Kerala State. Sri.Jayan PM IPGA­ Kerala State Branch welcomed the gathering and Dr.C.S Satheeshkumar, President, IPGA-Kerala State Branch presided the function. Mr.Koteshwar Rao (Coordinator, IPGA South India), Mr.Jayan Philip (Vice President, All India Drugs Control Officers Confederation), Mr.Mathew Kokad (Managing Director, Kokad Pharma Ltd.) and Mr. Abdul Nazeer (General Secretary, Kerala Pharmacy Graduates Association) were felicitated in the function. The webinar session was handled by Mr.Manmohan Taneja, Assistant State Drugs. Controller, Government of Haryana. The topic of webinar was "COSMETICS RULES, 2020". Mr. Shaji M Varghese, President, Kerala State Drugs Control enforcement Officers Association was the moderator of the seminar. The programme was very lively and many pharmacy professionals including senior officers from Drugs Control Department from various states joined the webinar. The webinar concluded with vote of thanks, proposed by Dr.Limcee Thampi, Executive Member, IPGA Kerala State Branch.

Date: 25 & 26 November 2021 IN.B. Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (KBIPER) & NSS Unit of KBIPER sponsored by IPGA celebrated a two-day (25th & 26th November 2021) virtual event of National Pharmacy W'eek sponsored by IPGA, India National Pharmacy week 2021 was celebrated with the theme: “Pharmacist: An integral part of Healthcare” by the Indian Pharmacy Graduates' Association, Gujarat State Branch at IN.B. Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Gandhinagar on 25th & 26th November 2021. Afore than 450 students from various institutions of Gujarat participated in various events i.e., Debate, Quiz, Elocution, Poster presentation, Pharma ad and block interview etc. On the first day, Mr. Tejas Shah, Head of Operations, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Ahmedabad, Gujarat graced the occasion as the invited chief guest of the Inaugural ceremony and Dr. Nipul I€apadia, DGhI- Apollo Hospitals international Ltd as the Chief guest and Mr. hlansinh Chaudhary, President- Druggists and Chemists Association, Gandhinagar as well as Mr. Rex Shah, Community Pharmacist- Mahi Medical, Gandhinagar as guest of honor in the valedictory function. Dr. Bhagirath Patel, President- IPGA-Gujarat, Dr. Shrikalp Deshpande, Vice President- IPGA Gujarat, General Secretar) -IPGA Gujarat shared the dais Inauguration was started on 25th November 2021 at 9:30am with Prayer followed by welcome address by Dr. Div esh Shastri. He introduced the chief guest of the event, Organizing committee members, Participants and faculty coordinators, Management of the Institutions. Dr. Shastri presented glimpses of work done and forthcoming event by Indian Pharmacy Graduates' Association Gujarat state branch. Following the Inauguration ceremony chief guest of the function Mr. Tejas Shah, delivered keynote address and covered an overview of about CDISC, RBM, Monoclonal Antibodies, an insight about clinical trials, biotechnology, bioinformatics, and cognitive science and discussed about what precision medicine is and how AI is improving predicti› e analytics in healthcare was explored.

The IPGA Life Members of Karnataka Branch meeting(Virtual) on Sunday (28.03.2021) at 11.30 am through Zoom cloud Meet. The meeting was attended by Life members of IPGA Karnataka. The meeting was held inpresence of National President Dr. Atul Nasa & National General Secretary Dr. Arun Garg, Dr. Koteswara Rao,Telangana State & Dr. Sunil Malleable, National Vice-president were also Present in the meeting.Dr. N Udupa proposed the names for the Post of ofce bearers-IPGA Karnataka. And offered open suggestionsfrom the members. After discussion members of IPGA Karnataka accepted the proposed names by Dr. N Udupafor different posts of IPGA Karnataka, and declared Elected unanimous for New Committee of IPGA Karnataka Branch. The list of Ofce bearers elected as follows: President: Mr. Umesh S. (Deputy Drugs Controller, Bangalore) Vice Presidents: 1. Dr. Narasimha Reddy (Principal, Vivekananda College of Pharmacy, Bangalore) 2. Dr. Pramod, (Managing Director, Raichur Medicare Pvt Ltd) General Secretary: Mr N V Raghuram, (Assistant Drugs Controller, Belagavi) Joint Secretaries: 1. Dr.Sunil Chiplankar (Group Pharmaceuticals) 2. Dr.Sreenivasa Reddy N, (RDTL, Ballari) Treasurer: Mr.Gopal S Mugdum (Chief Scientic Ofcer, RDTL, Ballari) Executive Committee Members: 1. Dr.Shiva Kumar ( Principal, Mallige College of Pharmacy, Bangalore) 2. Mr. Ajay Mudugal (Assistant Drugs Controller, Hubli) 3. Mr. Tejaswi Chikkanna (Assistant Drugs Controller, Davanagere) 4. Mrs. Nandini, (Dugs Inspector, Shivamogga) 5. Dr. K. L. Krishna, (JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore) 6. Dr. Md. Salauddin (Principal, Faruqia College of Pharmacy, Mysore) 7. Vacant (from Community Pharmacy forum) 8. Vacant (from Student forum) Chief Advisors: 1. Dr. B.R. Jagashetty, (Ex-Drugs Controller of Karnataka State) 2. Dr. N. Udupa, Academician

Indian Pharmacy Graduates' Association, Gujarat State Branch has organized Webinar Series 2021 during which one virtual webinar was organized On 11th October 2021, Monday at IWIPER on Microsoft Teams application. Mr. Pawan I€umar Jaggi Sir was the eminent speaker for the webinar, who had delivered his talk on the topic “Career Opportunities in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences”. Dr. Bhagirath Patel, President IPGA Gujarat did welcome the eminent speaker, present guest, Members of IPG and all the participants for the webinar. Dr. Palak Shah, Department of Pharmacology introduced the Speaker. All the participants were informed about the IPGA and its activities, membership benefits and about the webinar. Dr. Shrikalp Deshpande, Principal- UBIPER, Vice President-IPGA Gujarat has given brief about the I€BIPER-I€SV and courses offered at the lnstitute. The speech of the speaker guided everyonefor enhancing their vision for career opportunities in the field of pharmacy and gave complete information for all the branches of pharmaceutical field like Clinical Research Organizations, Hospital Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy, Medical Writing, Industry, Designing and packaging of pharmaceuticals, Academia as well as Government Sector including Regulatory affairs, Drug Inspector, Government Analyst at Central and State govt laboratories, NPPA, NIB, DRDO etc. where one can find the avenues to build pharmaceutical career. At the end he discussed various merits of Pharmaceutical sciences like Diverse career options, job stability, Opportunity to help people in different ways, Respectable remuneration, Respectful stature in the society with highest level of trust in Pharmacists globally by the people after teachers, doctors, nurses, and firefighters. His speech was very motivative and inspirational and unique during the entire webinar. The session was interactive with live question-answer time slot at the end of webinar for one-to-one interaction with the attendees. Dr. Divyesh Shastri given vote of thanks, felicitated Mr. Pawan I€umarJaggi Sir with e-certificate of the Webinar and acknowledge the thanks to the President and Secretary of IPGA Central branch. More than 200 participants including faculties and students from all over India has attended the webinar acti ely. The overall coordination during the webinar was handled b} the general secretar} of IPGA Gujarat branch Dr. Divyesh Shastri along with faculty of KBIPER Dr. Palak Shah Dr. Lata Panchal and student coordinator Ms. INushi N Panchal. From: Dr. Diy•esh H Shastri, General Secretary, IPGA Gujarat State Branch.

In connection with World AIDS day, an awareness poster was designed by IPGA-Kerala State Branch and circulated among various Pharmacy Colleges in Kerala for circulating among students and display in notice boards. Also, we circulated the poster among officials of Drugs Control Department and Drugs Testing Laboratories for exhibiting in notice boards