Dr. H.G. Koshia is currently Commissioner, Food & Drugs Control Administration, Gujarat and his key Responsibilities are Enforcement of “Drugs & Cosmetic Act, 1940 and Rules” & Enforcement of “Food Safety & Standard Act, 2006” and rules, in Gujarat State.

He is actively representing nine national and state level committees. He is Chairman of the very important committee “Track & Trace”, for preparation of guidelines to prevent of menace of spurious drugs.

He has played a pivotal role in transformation of pharma and medical devices sectors in Gujarat to emerge as a favorable investment destination with proactive & pragmatic approaches. He was instrumental in the implementation of e-governance in FDCA and is winner of one state level and three national level awards.

Mr. Kishore Khanna
Managing Director,
Romsons Group of Industries, Agra

Current Professional Activities: Managing Director, Overlooking the complete management of the Romsons Group of Industries.

Experience & work responsibilities: Rich experience of 50 years in the medical device industry and more than 25 years in serving the community.

Mr. Kishore Narain Khanna is a distinguished entrepreneur with an undying spirit to excel in his chosen field of disposable medical devices. Mr Khanna is responsible for the brand “ROMSONS”. His indomitable stance for research and development has led to the nurturing of the brand “Romsons”, which is today an eminent player in the healthcare sector, serving millions of patients in the country & worldwide.

His contribution to the medical fraternity has been recently recognised at ASICON for undertaking the Mission “Make in India”. He has also been honoured by the Government of Uttar Pradesh with the “Udyog Ratan Award” for Quality Management Practices in Business. He had also been bestowed with Presidential Award for Innovative Achievement in Medical Devices.

In the early 70s, at the age of 20 he was the youngest member to join the family business of disposable medical devices and started his career manually operating moulding & extruder machines, working on assembly & packing lines. At the age of 30, he took over the business and brought all kinds of technical advancements, process upgradation and mustered all the mechanisms to arrive at state-of-the-art manufacturing. Today Romsons has to its credit 10 design patents with the backing of the dedicated stateof-the-art R & D unit approved by the Department of Science & Technology.

He has travelled across the globe in search of business and learned the dynamics of international business. As a result today Romsons is one of the pre-eminent brands in the disposable medical devices field. Romsons is a name to reckon with medical disposable devices in over 90 countries, where the company exports.

Mr. Khanna is also an important stakeholder in the Indian Medical Device Industry. He is the co-founder and coordinator of AIMED, which is the most influential association in the Indian Medical Device Industry. Mr. Khanna is also an active member and integral part of the management committee of National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Agra.

Mr. Khanna possesses a strong commitment towards social responsibility and runs a Romsons Charitable Society which is focused on serving the needy. He is also the Vice President of Agra Charitable Eye Centre.

Mr. Rajiv Nath
Forum Coordinator, Association of Indian Med. Device Industry (AiMeD)
and Jt. MD, Hindustan Syringes & Med. Ltd.

Mr. Rajiv Nath is Jt. Managing Director of Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. which is having a turnover of over 500 Crores & Trustee – Safe Point India – a CSR Initiative of HMD (Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd.). He is President of All India Syringes & Needles Mfg. Association. (AISNMA) & as well as the Founder and Forum Coordinator – Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED) with over 350 Members nationwide whereby Medical Device Manufacturers all types of technologies have been attracted nationwide on one Platform.

As Forum Coordinator of AIMED, Mr. Nath has taken many initiatives of establishing a Collaborative Framework with various Dept. of the Govt. and Media to bring to their attention issues troubling the industry and attract investments into India in his quest to make India as the Preferred Manufacturing Destination and the leading Supplier of Medical Device Worldwide.

Position held :

• Jt.Managing Director of Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd. (HMD)

• President of All India Syringes & Needles Mfg. Association. (AISNMA)

• Forum Coordinator of Association of Indian Medical Device Industry (AIMED)

• Jt. Coordinator of Indian Medical Device Regulatory Review Group (IMDRRG)

• Jt. Coordinator of UDAIMED

• A Member of International Association of Safe Injection Technology (IASIT) and served on the Board.

• Member of “International Safe Healthcare and HIV /AIDS Working Group”.

• Member of “India Coalition on Injection Safety”

• Member of Think Tank Pharma Forum

An active Member of expert committee and Task Force for Medical Devices Regulation in India.

Mr. Suranjan Gupta
Executive Director
Engg. Export Promotion Council, Delhi

Suranjan Gupta is currently associated with EEPC India as Executive Director. On behalf of EEPC India, he is actively involved in representing the voice of Indian engineering industry in various bilateral and multilateral engagement of India. He regularly provides inputs to Government of India on Exim policies, export promotion schemes and other areas related to trade. He is a part of EEPC India’s core team and has been closely associated with the organization’s numerous promotional initiatives undertaken across the world.

With over 30 years of work experience, previously he worked with leading Chambers of Commerce and Diplomatic Missions including Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Kolkata, Confederation of Engineering Industry (now CII), New Delhi, the Delegation of European Commission in New Delhi and the Consulate of the United States of America in Kolkata.

Dr. Arvind Kukrety
Deputy Drugs Controller
CDSCO , Zonal Office, Ahmedabad

Arvind Kukrety is working as Deputy Drugs Controller India in Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, Ahmedabad Zone since 2015. He has done M.Pharm from Jamia Hamdard University, Delhi.

He has got 24 years of working experience in the field of manufacturing of drugs, Quality Assurance and drug regulation. He started his carrier from M/s Winthrop (now known as Win-Medicare) as production supervisor and left the organization as Assistant Manager technical before joining CDSCO in 1998. During his stint in Industry, he worked in various capacities in the manufacturing of oral, external and parenteral dosage forms.

In 2003, during WHO GMP workshop he was assessed as the best among the participants and was selected thereafter for various WHO assignments. As short term consultant for WHO he was part of NRA assessment teams for Indonesia & Thailand. As facilitator, he participated in WHO GMP workshops for inspectors of Indonesia and China. In 2005, Ministry identified him as GMP expert for assessment of vaccine manufacturing PSU. He was trained as trainer in GMP and GCP and was associated in various workshops for training of inspectors in India. He also represented in Govt. of India missions in South Korea and Suriname.

In CDSCO HQ he worked in new drugs, Biological, import and export, Global clinical trial divisions. He was exposed to dossier assessment procedures of biological in 2008 in Canada. He has played a major role in preparation of Guidance documents for Biological and similar biologic guidelines. In 2011, he led the first team from CDSCO for inspection of foreign manufacturing sites in China. He is actively involved in framing of risk based inspection policy and their evaluation.

Mr Prakash Bachani
Scientist & Head (MHD)
Bureau Of Indian Standards, Delhi

Mr Prakash Bachani is MIE (Electrical Engg.) GOLD MEDALIST, Institution of Engineers, India. He is presently posted as Scientist E & Head (MUBO-1), Mumbai in Bureau of Indian Standards, for Certification Marks Deptt. In Mumbai at national level.

He has 32 years experience in Bureau of Indian Standards. At the Technical level, he has overseen the following activities: 1. Product Certification, 2. System Certification (QMS), 3. Hallmarking of Gold and Silver, 4. Standards Formulation (Electrotechnical), 5. Laboratory Management.

In conformity assessment of the products in electrotechnical area, includes cables; conductors; energy meters; electrical accessories like switch, plugs and sockets, MCBs; electrical appliances like geysers, fans, motors, pumps, ballasts; GLS Sodium and compact fluorescent lamps; luminaries etc.

He has participated and presented several papers relating to Standardization, Certification in the field of Electrical Engg. at various seminars organized in the country. He has also participated in the meetings of IEC for Rotating Machinery in China, Power Capacitors in Russia and Transformers in Japan.

Dr. Kiran Kalia
Director
NIPER, Ahmedabad

Dr. Kiran Kalia is presently serving as the Director of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad at Gandhinagar. She graduated in Biochemistry and received her PhD degree in 1984 from Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow. She was an awardee of prestigious DBT overseas research associateship and was the visiting Professor at School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, USA in 2006-07.Her current areas of interest/ expertise include several aspects of diabetic nephropathy, metal toxicity and presently interested in proteomic and genomic biomarkers. She is the task force member of many national level committees of decision making under Govt. of India. She is also one of the core members of policy making in Department of Pharmaceutics, Govt. of India. She is a INSA visiting fellow and the Fellow of Gujarat Science Academy.

She is reviewer of various National and International Journals and recipient of numerous Awards and scholarships including 8th “International Prestigious Sardar Patel Award” for Excellence in Women Empowerment. She was awarded with the “President Guide award” by His Excellence The President of IndiaShri V.V. Giri. She is member of many professional societies like Indian Science Congress, Society of Biological Chemists, India, Society of Toxicology – India, Indian Association of Micronutrients, New Delhi, and Organization of Women Scientists in Developing World (OWSD), Italy.

She has delivered 75 presentations and guest lectures at various national and international platforms that includes plenary / lead lectures. She has 3 chapters in book
published by international publishers. She is actively involved in teaching masters, doctoral students and specializes in exploring biochemical aspect of diabetes. She has 35 years of research and 31 years of teaching experience with 71 publications in various national and international peer-reviewed journals. She has guided 22 Ph.Ds, over 50 M.Sc. dissertation students.Currently, 7 students are working under her for their doctoral degree. She has received several extramural research grants from different funding agencies and has completed 16 major research projects from University Grants Commission (UGC), Department of Biotechnology of Ministry of Science and Technology (DBT), Govt. of India, Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM) Gandhi Nagar, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), New Delhi and Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), New Delhi.

Dr. Atul Sardana
Director
Alfa Corpuscles Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Dr. Atul Sardana (MBBS, MS, FIAGES) is a minimal access surgeon with a knack for applying technology to conventional surgical principals which benefits patients. Dr. Atul Sardana has been working in the health care sector since 1990 starting as a social worker in one of Delhi’s large government hospital. He graduated in medicine from the University of Rajasthan in 1998 and served in the rural sector in there. He then did his masters in surgery in 2002 and has since been working extensively in minimal access surgery as a consultant surgeon in various hospitals of repute including Sir Ganga Ram Kolmet Hospital and Apollo Spectra Hospital. He has over 30 national and international clinical publication and presentations and is a honorary member of the World Association of laparoscopic Surgeons, and a member of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and the BIS Technical Committee on Surgical Instruments (MHD01).

Dr. Atul Sardana has been invited at various forums and conferences as a key speaker on Medical Device Innovation and Medical Device Plastics and as a panelist on talk pertaining to the fund raising in the Healthcare sector with particular focus on Innovative Medical Device Companies in India. He has been on the committee for medical Devices constituted by the Principal Scientific Advisor, GOI and also as panelist on innovation ecosystem in Gujarat organized by GSBTM. He has also been invited to deliver guest lectures at IIT-Delhi on medical applications of textiles and has conducted workshops at IIT-Delhi and IIT-Bombay for FTT and SINE incubates on Medical Device Regulations.