Seminar@Symbiosis

Dr Nata Menabde, WHO Representative to India was the Chief Guest at last year’s National Seminar

Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences (SIHS), a constituent of Symbiosis International University (SIU), Pune will be hosting the XVth National Seminar on hospital/healthcare management, medico legal systems and clinical research on May 3-4, 2013 at Symbiosis Knowledge Village, Lavale, Pune.

The Indian healthcare sector is expected to become a $280 billion industry by 2020 with spending on health estimated to grow 14 per cent annually. To elaborate on this phenomenon, a pre-conference symposium on ‘Successful Healthcare Models’ has been structured and is expected to be attended by stalwarts of the healthcare industry covering the hospital, medical equipment manufacturing, clinical research, pharma and IT sectors. The session will be anchored by Dr Ratan Jalan, Founder & Principle Consultant, Medium Healthcare Consultancy while Dr Nagendra Swamy, MD, Medical services and MHS, COO will represent the hospitals. Other speakers include Dr Shankar Haveri, Head-Siemens Healthcare who will speak on medical equipment manufacturing; Dr Deven Parmar, CEO and Medical Director, Karmic Lifesciences on clinical research; Dr Chaitanya Dutt, Director, Torrent Research Centre, on the pharma sector and Dr Vishal Gupta, VP, Global Health Care Solutions, CISCO who will address the audience on IT.

The national seminar will also include master classes wherein delegates will get to interact with stalwarts on a one-to-one basis for knowledge sharing. Eminent speakers like Dr Raajiv Singhal, Regional Director, Fortis and Col SKM Rao, GM HR, Columbia Asia Hospital will speak on ‘the importance of human capital and its viability’. Dr Nagendra Swamy, MD, Medical services, MHS and Dr Santosh Shetty, COO, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital will speak on ‘strategic management’.

Dr Amir Shaikh, Founder, ASSANSA and Dr Dhananjay Bakhle, Executive, Vice President, Lupin will speak on ‘recent trends in clinical research’. Dr Nikhil Datar, Consultant, Kay Legal & Dr. Sanjay Gupte, Director, Gupte Hospital will speak on ‘healthcare and law’.

Dr Achintan Bhattacharya, Director, National Insurance Academy, will share his views on ‘healthcare insurance’. Dr CL Kaul, Ex Director, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER) will speak on ‘clinical trials: phases, tribulations and challenges’. Dr Raman Gangakhedkar, Deputy Director, NARI, will light on ‘regulatory affairs in clinical research’. Dr Sanjay Zodpey, Director, Public Health Foundation of India, will speak on ‘clinical epidemiology’. Dr Gopinath N Shenoy, Medico Legal Consultant, will share his expertise on legal aspects of healthcare. Dr Vivek Desai, MD, Hosmac, will elaborate on ‘futuristic hospital designing’. Zahabiya Khorakiwala, MD, Wockhardt, will give a talk on building a chain of hospitals.

Dr Vivek Shukla, Healthcare Marketing Consultant, will discuss ‘healthcare communication’, touching on branding and marketing issues while Dr Deepak Phalgune, Consultant, DEP, Public Health, FoHBS will share his expert opinion on ‘fundamentals in clinical research’.

The seminar will conclude with a valedictory ceremony. Dr Mohan Das, VC, Kerala University of Health Sciences will be the Chief Guest at the ceremony and advocate Ram Jethmalani, Former Union Law Minister will be Guest of Honour, presided over by Dr SB Mujumdar, President and Founder Director, Symbiosis.

In addition to these sessions, this year Symbiosis has organised a consortium meeting which would bring together academia as well as industry experts. It is being organised with a view to reinforce and enhance the overall quality of healthcare education management in India. It will help to study healthcare management programmes being offered across universities in India with regard to uniformity and standardisation of curriculum.

The consortium will comprise plenary sessions featuring stalwarts from the hospital sector such as Dr Rajeev Singhal, Dr Nagendra Swamy, Dr Santosh Shetty, Col SKM Rao and Dr (Col) RR Pulgaonkar, CEO, Jaslok Hospital.

Representatives from the consultancy sector include Tarun Katiyar, Principal Consultant, Hospaccx; Faisal Siddique, VP, Healthcare Strategy, Technopak and Dr Vivek Desai.

Representatives from institutes like Dr D Obul Reddy, Principal, Apollo Institute of Hospital Administration; Dr PN Mishra from Institute of Management Studies; Indore; Professor RN Saha, Dean, Educational Development Division, BITS, Pilani; Dr Jayant Sonwalkar Professor, Director (Academics) and Director, Directorate of Distance Education, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi and Dr Anil Naik, Dean, Welingkar Institutes.

The pharmaceutical sector will be represented by Satish Mehta, Founder Member, Emcure; MB Kapadia, Senior Executive Director, GSK and Ganesh Nayak, COO & Executive Director, Zydus Cadilla. Exchanging their views on the healthcare management education from the government and NGO sectors will be Dr Abhay Shukla, Senior Programme Coordinator, Socio Educational Health & Allied Team (SEHAT).

Also partaking in the plenary sessions, from the insurance and TPA domain will be Gautam Nag, Regional Manager, National Insurance Company. Dr Achintan Bhattacharya and J Hari Narayan from IRDA would also attend the event.

Besides Gupta from CISCO, IT industry experts scheduled to be at the event include Gyana Ranjan, Accenture and Shikhar Sood, GE India Technology.

Wellness industry experts such as Juhee Sinha, Head, VLCC will also share their expertise.

Making the plenary sessions well rounded would be representatives from the medical equipment industry such as Anjan Bose, Secretary General, Healthcare Federation of India and Shankar Haveri, Head of Healthcare Academy, Siemens.

The plenary sessions will be chaired by Dr Lakhwinder Singh, Director, IIHMR, New-Delhi; Professor S Parsuraman, TISS; Dr Rajesh Bhalla, Dean, IIHMR and Dr Siddhartha Satpathy, Professor-Department of Hospital Administration, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

With such an exhaustive line up of industry experts as speakers, the National Seminar promises to be a stimulating event sure to open up several opportunities.