KCGMC-Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana

Pharmacology

About Department

Pharmacology forms one of the foundations of medical science, with respect to quality medical education as well as patient safety. The department is presently headed by Professor Dr. Jayant Kumar Kairi. It has spacious and well equipped clinical cum Pharmacy and experimental laboratories, museum, library-cum-seminar room, demonstration room, research laboratory and modern teaching aids. The department has a recognized adverse drug reaction monitoring centre under Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) with Dr. Tirthankar Deb, Professor as its co-ordinator. The department follows innovative teaching learning methods so as to contribute towards training of medical students as future doctors equipped with competence of rational pharmacotherapy and communication skills to interact with patients and their relatives, towards the achievement of National Health Goals.

Faculty

Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Dr. Jayant Kumar Kairi	Professor and Head Of Department
2	Dr. Neha Rani	Associate Professor
3	Dr. Manmeet Kaur	Assistant Professor
4	Dr. Saurav Mishra	Assistant Professor
5	Dr. Ashish Kumar	Senior Resident
6	Dr. Abhimanyu Vohra	Senior Resident
7	Dr. Kashish Sindhwani	Senior Resident
8	Dr. Vikas	Demonstrator
9	Dr. Babita	Demonstrator
10	Dr. Mayur	Demonstrator
11	Dr. Yash Vats	Demonstrator
12	Dr. Prabhjot Kaur	Demonstrator

Facilities

a) Medical Education for undergraduate MBBS students.

· Didactic lectures, practical classes, tutorials & OSPE for 2nd professional MBBS students on pharmacological basis of use of drugs.

· Patient centered learning of Pharmacology: Bed side learning of pharmacology by analysing the management of real life patients on the basis of pharmacological principles.

· Computer Assisted learning of experimental pharmacology

· Mannequins based demonstration of routes of drug administration

b) Postgraduate teaching of MD (Pharmacology) students as per NMC provided CBME guidelines.

c) Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centre (AMC) run by the Department of Pharmacology, under the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI). It caters to the need of adverse drug reaction monitoring and patient safety of the whole district of Karnal on a regular basis as well as undertakes mass monitoring programme e.g COVID-19 vaccination, National deworming day etc. Training programme is also undertaken for health care workers and other related government servants like school teachers from time to time by the department under guidance of AMC, Co-ordinator Dr. Tirthankar Deb.

d) Materiovigilance Programme of India (MvPI): Department of Pharmacology also runs MvPI to monitor medical device-associated adverse events (MDAE), create awareness among healthcare professionals about the importance of MDAE reporting and to monitor the benefit-risk profile of medical devices with Dr. Tirthankar Deb as its coordinator.

e) The department of Pharmacology contributes to the smooth functioning of Institutional Ethical Committee (IEC) with Dr Jayant Kairi as its Member Secretary.

f) The department of Pharmacology has been involved with setting up of Multi-Disciplinary Research Unit (MRU)in our institute from its inception. Dr Jayant Kairi, who is Nodal Officer, looks after the work of MRU.

List of Faculty Members
Department	Name of the faculty Qualification IMR Number	Current Designation & Date of promotion	Nature of employment Regular/ permanent or contract/outsou reed	Details of Service in the Last 5 years					Number of lectures taken/year, small teaching group with Topics covered
				1	2	3	4	5
Pharmacology	Dr.J.K.Kairi (MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) (APMC-37880)	Professor & HOD	Permanent	As Prof. & HOD KCGMC, Karnal	As Prof. & HOD KCGMC, Karnal	As Prof. & HOD KCGMC, Karnal	As Prof. & HOD KCGMC, Karnal	As Prof. & HOD KCGMC, Karnal	201 (All Topics)
	Dr. Tirthankar Deb (MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) (AMC-17535) MCI-IMR/09/830	Professor (27.10.20)	Permanent	As Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Assoc. Prof. Till 26.10.20, KCGMC, Karnal & then Prof.	As Asso. Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	225 (All Topics)
	Dr. Neha Rani (Ph.D. Pharmacology) PHA-2280616	Assistant Professor (29.07.19)	Permanent	As Asstt. Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Asstt. Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Asstt. Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Asstt. Prof. KCGMC, Karnal	As Demons. KCGMC, Karnal till 28.07.19 & then Asstt. Prof.	175 (All Topics)
	Dr. Manmeet Kaur (MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) (PMC-46140)	Assistant Professor (21.04.20)	Permanent	As Asstt. Prof., KCGMC, Karnal	As Asstt. Prof., KCGMC, Karnal	As Asstt. Prof., KCGMC, Karnal	As Demons., KCGMC, Karnal till 20.04.21 & then Asstt. Prof.	As Demons., KCGMC, Karnal	246 (All Topics)
	Dr. Saurav Misra (MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) (UPMC MBBS-67641) (UPMC PG-17014)	Assistant Professor	Permanent	As Asstt. Prof., KCGMC, Karnal	As Asstt. Prof., KCGMC, Karnal	As Demons. AIIMS, Bhopal till 21.10.21 & then Asstt. Prof. KCGMC, Karnal from 02.11.21	As Demons. AIIMS, Bhopal	As Demons. AIIMS, Bhopal	267 (All Topics)
	Dr. Ashish (MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) (DMC-94765	Senior Resident	Contractual (One Year Tenure extended upto three years)	As Senior Resident KCGMC, Karnal from 18.08.2023					28 (All Topics)
	Dr. Abhimanyu (MBBS, MD (Pharmacology) (HN15446)	Senior Resident	Contractual (One Year Tenure extended upto three years)	As Senior Resident KCGMC, Karnal from 22.09.2023					40 (All Topics)