Kiran Bahrus, MSc. Clinical Research

kiran@healiousglobal.com

• She has 7 years’ experience in medical research wherein she has been recognized for her outstanding work in clinical operations and quality assurance.
• She has been instrumental in developing several documents and powerpoint presentations, in addition to imparting numerous trainings.
• Leads the capacity building arm of an NGO – Diabetes Awareness and You. In her services she has organised and moderated numerous programs in and around prevention and management of diabetes for Doctors, paraprofessionals as well as patients. Has an exceptional multifaceted responsibility to conduct an International Scientific Conferences.
• She is a certified diabetes educator and an insulin pump trainer.
• She has been a coordinator of research associated with Diabetes and Paediatrics wherein she has received several trainings on the guidelines and been successful in facing numerous audits and inspections by DCGI.
• She is associated with several firms as a freelancer for medical writing.
• Assisted in the authorship of the book “Diabetes and Musculoskeletal Disorders”

Dolanchanpa Basu, PhD. (Biochemistry)

+919830283838

bdolanchanpa@gmail.com

• After her PhD, she served as a visiting lecturer in the Dept. of Food Technology in the esteemed Bengal Engineering & Science University guiding PhD students & pursuing her post Doctoral fellowship.
• Setup the modern Diagnostic and Clinical Lab at the Eastern Diagnostic Centre & the IRIS Hospital, Kolkata and served as the Chief Biochemist in these labs.
• Facilitated setting up the Human Reproductive Lab at the Suraksha Molecular Biology & In-Vitro fertilization Unit where she started commercial RT-PCR for TB for the first time in Kolkata in 1999.

Debasis Basu, MD (Internal Medicine)

• A Diabetologist par excellence, Dr.Basu has been a specialist in Diabetes, Preventive Medicine, Cardiac Rehabilitation since the last 30 years.
• President, Diabetes Awareness and You, since 2010, a not for profit social welfare Organisation working around prevention and management of Diabetes through awareness as a key component, also helping people of low socioeconomic status to live well with the disorder.
• President, Diabetes Awareness and You, since 2010, a not for profit social welfare Organisation working around prevention and management of Diabetes through awareness as a key component, also helping people of low socioeconomic status to live well with the disorder.
• Served as Visiting Clinician in Joslin Diabetes Centre, USA & an Invited Fellow in Steno Diabetes Centre, Denmark &Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Faculty to numerous courses in and around Diabetes Management
• Instrumental in the establishment of the SUGAR CLINIC for Apollo Hospitals & the founder In-charge of the clinic in Kolkata & the faculty of the Diploma/Fellowship in Diabetes Course of Apollo-Medvarsity under the aegis of Royal Liverpool Academy
• Principal Investigator for various clinical trials for new treatments for diabetes
• Recipient of numerous awards
• Author of multiple articles in national and international journals
• Author of the book “Diabetes and Musculoskeletal Disorders” and several chapters related to diabetes management for several eminent books like the RSSDI Text Book of Diabetes Mellitus, World Clinics Diabetology: Complications of Diabetes
• Known to be a great orator with lectures and speeches or moderating key discussions in and around diabetes almost on weekly basis.
• The visionary has made a robust team of fellow professionals, a bench of educators, who help in providing a holistic individualized solutions and counseling to patients in turn providing excellent outcomes

Prof. A K Azad Khan, Chief Advisor

• Dr A K Azad Khan is the Regional Chair for (the South Asia) International Diabetes Federation and the President of the Bangladesh Diabetes Society.
• He has been the pioneer to conceptualize many indigenous plans to integrate community practice of cultural norms with actions based on scientific rationale to prevent a number of major health problems & is regarded as the prime mover behind NCD programmes in Bangladesh
• Dr Azad has been elected honorary fellow of University College London.
• The University of Basel, Switzerland, conferred an honorary doctorate degree on him in 2009. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree from the University of Oxford in 1977.
• He is the Dean, Faculty of Unani & Ayurvedic Medicine, Hamdard University Bangladesh
• A pioneer of ‘Endoscopic’ service in Bangladesh, Prof. A K Azad had invented ‘5 ASA based drugs’ in the UK used for treatment of life-threatening inflammatory bowel diseases
• He has been elected chairman of IDF's South-east Asia region
• He has been the pioneer to conceptualize many indigenous plans to integrate community practice of cultural norms with actions based on scientific rationale to prevent a number of major health problems & is regarded as the prime mover behind NCD programmes in Bangladesh
• Dr Azad has been elected honorary fellow of University College London

Amitava Sanyal, Honorary Consultant

A healthcare professional with over 26 years of experience in the sector. After working for the first 12 years in pharmaceuticals marketing, distribution chain management and training of fresh recruits in West Bengal, shifted to public health consulting sector. Over the last 14+ years, he has been working in different countries supporting planning and implementation of bi-lateral and multi-lateral donor funded projects. In addition to working as an expert in feasibility studies, hospital services planning, PPPs & DSFs in health and procurement, the breadth of his experience includes:

• Contribution to development of a number of tools in the areas of rationalization & optimization planning of hospital services, hospital budget preparation, hospital development plans, hospital services base cost calculation, health services feasibility surveys and KAP surveys
• DRG based calculation of hospital service costs and hospital base price costing – Abu Dhabi
• Development of business plans for hospitals – India, Iraq, Abu Dhabi
• Planning of new hospitals and medical colleges / teaching hospitals - India, UAE, Nepal
• Healthcare facility assessments / planning – India, UAE, Tajikistan, Nepal, Bangladesh
• Development of detailed up-gradation plans for a number of public sector hospitals – India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Malawi
• Procurement of medical & non-medical equipment, PPEs, consumables – India, Tajikistan, Iraq, Malawi
• PPP framework analysis and development of health sector specific PPP guidelines - Bangladesh
• Design, Development and Assessment of PPP/DSFschemes for Hospitals, Diagnostics, Retail Chemist Outlets and Ambulance Services – India

Dr. Sanjan Das

• Hailing from Barisal Dr Sanjan K. Das has grown up as a scientist in the UK system over best part of three decades working in three of the leadings institutions, Universities of Oxford, Sheffield and Imperial College, London. After a dual honours in Biotechnology and Microbiology at the University of Sheffield, Sanjan carried out his PhD research, at the Krebs Institute, UoS, on application of structural genomics to develop novel antibacterial under the tutelage of Prof David W. Rice. In the mid 2000s Sanjan pioneered the most challenging high throughput structure based drug design program in Oxford trying to crystallize full length human membrane proteins with Dr Declan Doyle whose work was the cornerstone of Nobel prize in 2003 in chemistry with huge implications in medicine. Dr Das is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, working as the guiding light of the Barisal Biotechnology UK (BBUK) Limited for all aspects of technology transfer and development. In addition, Sanjan, is holding DWR chair of Structural Genomics at BUHS and acting as the BADAS scientific ambassador to UK & EU. He has been the living bridge in knowledge transfer between UK and Bangladesh plus wider commonwealth in the health sector over last 5 years. In this Endeavour UoS is the gateway to UK knowhow covering science, technology and applied services. Sanjan is an active member of the national sub committee of advisors to the govt in science diagnostic for Covid19 response, lead by Prof Nazrul Islam.

Dr. Catherine Heinlein

• Catherine Heinlein, EdD, RN, RDN, CDCES, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing (SON) at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California. Her degrees in leadership, nursing, and nutrition, have allowed her the unique position to apply a holistic care approach to her patients and instruction to her students. She has been teaching at the college level for over 20 years.
• Dr. Heinlein’s clinical practice areas include diabetes prevention and management to individuals and groups from pre-conception to older adulthood. She serves as the Director for the Short-Term Study Abroad India program offering a Service Learning course in Transcultural Healthcare to prepare students for their in-country experience to Kolkata, India. Since the peoples of India have taken over Dr. Heinlein’s heart, her passion is to better understand their plight from the non-communicable disease standpoint and offer longer-term assistance in empowering those who cannot afford primary prevention visits and diagnostics to manage their own lifestyle prevention and management goals.
• Currently, Dr. Heinlein acts as a preceptor for RN-BSN students at the SON’s Neighborhood Wellness Center where diabetes self-management education is providedto community members. She developed the Minor in Nutrition, which offers a variety of courses to include Life Cycle Nutrition, Cultural Aspects of Foods and Nutrition, Complementary and Alternative Therapies, and Nutrition and Therapeutics. Her doctoral research looked at the perceptions patients had on the education they received to prepare them for nutrition outcomes of a gastric bypass surgery for the treatment of obesity. A recent Fulbright Scholar, her work in India concentrated on the establishment of a diabetes behavior-change program utilizing nursing students in their Community Health Nursing rotation through a Service Learning course.

Dr. Diana Isaacs

• Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM, BCACP, CDCES, FADCES, FCCP is a clinical pharmacist and the Remote Monitoring Program Coordinator at the Cleveland Clinic Diabetes Center.
• Dr. Isaacs earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and completed a pharmacy practice residency at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
• Dr. Isaacs holds board certifications in pharmacotherapy, ambulatory care, and advanced diabetes management and is also a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES).
• She has earned Fellow status in the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) and American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP).
• She is the Communications Director for the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Pregnancy and Reproductive Health Interest Group and serves on the ADA Professional Practice Committee, the committee that updates the ADA Standards of Care.
• She has numerous diabetes publications and research projects with a focus on medications, CGM and diabetes technology. She also is an international speaker on a variety of diabetes topics.
• Dr. Isaacs was awarded the Ohio Pharmacists Association Under 40 Award in 2019 and the ADCES Diabetes Care and Education Specialist of the Year in 2020.

Dr. Bishwajit Bhowmik

• Completed his diploma in diabetology from the UK and Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Norway and took his advanced training on diabetology from Newcastle Diabetes Centre, UK and Australian Centre for Diabetes Strategies, Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney’ Australia.
• Consultant Diabetologist & Director, Executive Diabetes Care Centre, Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (BADAS), Coordinator, Centre for Global Health Research, BADAS, elected General Secretary of Diabetes in Asia Study Group, Assistant Coordinator, Distance Learning Program of BADAS
• Coordinator of few landmark programs including Nationwide Diabetes Registry, Preconception Care Program, Diabetes Prevention through Religious Leaders, Country Changing Diabetes, Rural Diabetes Care and Research Centers, Mobile Diabetes Care Center and Online Diabetes School.
• Author of thirty-nine international publications, contributed chapters in two books on medical sciences, and member of the editorial board in more than 24 books/guidelines including Diabetes Care BADAS Guideline 2019 and BADAS Diabetes and COVID-19 Guidelines.
• Pioneer in COVID-19 and Diabetes Prevention and Research in Bangladesh. Has developed the largest diabetes and COVID-19 awareness and care platform (COVID-19 and Diabetes – Our initiatives).

Dr. Prashant Mishra, Professor, IIM, Kolkata

• As an educator, researcher, trainer, consultant and institution builder in both the finest Public and Private Educational Institutions in India, Prof. Prashant Mishra has an exciting as well as a challenging career so far and is presently the Professor, Marketing Area, IIM, Kolkata.
• At IIM, he has led Calcutta’s Alumni Relations and Development Initiatives, Executive Education, International Outreach and collaborations including Student Exchange and CEMS Programme, Media, Rankings, Archiving, Student Affairs as Dean (New Initiatives and External Relations) during 2018-21 & has been serving on several Board of Governor’s (BoG) sub committees.
• He had been at the helm of the Post Graduate Programme office as Chairperson, Post Graduate Programmes for two consecutive terms at a time when the institute saw one of the largest expansion during its journey. During 2016-2018, he had also headed a task-force responsible for starting up IIM Bodhgaya. His research interests include Sales & Marketing Processes, Consumer Psychology, Digital Marketing and Sustainability.
• Has authored several research papers, case studies, and published in both national and international journals. Regular collaborator with colleagues in leading US universities on several research projects, he has designed and delivered learning and development initiatives for Business Leaders, Mid-level Sales and Marketing leaders, Unit Heads for more than 50 organisations both in Public and Private sectors which included leading Indian FMCG, Telecom, Banking and financial services, Insurance, Pharmaceutical and Energy (including Oil & Gas, Power Generation and Distribution) and IT services and consulting Firms.
• Having conducted Programmes for Senior Management Professionals with International learning component, he has led several senior business executive delegations across the globe for interactions with the Corporate Headquarters, Policy Research Institutions, Local Nodal Ministries, Local Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce, Manufacturing Units of Leading Firms, International multilateral institutions such as WTO, UN, ILO, EU, OPEC etc. His recent consulting engagements have been mostly on building customer-centric processes, marketing audit, creating new brand and brand strategy, sales process mapping and facilitating strategy planning in leading Indian conglomerates.