Chapter 1. Introduction Pharmacy- Industry, Community Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy and Hospital Pharmacy.- Chapter 2. Pharmacy Profession - Role and Responsibility of Pharmacist in Healthcare Delivery.- Chapter 3. Pharmacist - Background, Knowledge and skills.- Chapter 4. Patients - Gaps in Knowledge, Medication Errors and its impact on outcomes, quality of life & Cost of treatments.- Chapter 5. Communication - Inter and Intra communication, Provider-patient communication perspectives and approaches, Provider competencies and communication skill, Patient competencies and communication skills, Equity in health care delivery, Patient counselling, Medication History and Patient Education.- Chapter 6. Pharmaceutical Care- WHO-FIP model, Soap analysis and Illustrative Case studies.- Chapter 7. Clinical Pharmacy Services- Drug and poison information, ward round participation, Drug- Drug/Drug food interaction, Prescription analysis, PTC activities, Formulary management and TDM services.- Chapter 8. Community Pharmacy services - Dispensing of Prescription, Home medication Review, Screening of chronic diseases, Treatments of minor ailments, monitoring of chronic disease and Maintaining of Patient profile.- Chapter 9. Hospital Pharmacy Services - Ward Pharmacy, Compounding of Prescription, Extempore Preparation, Nuclear Medicine, Narcotic drugs storage and dispensing.- Chapter 10. Ethics and Regulations- Pharmacist Oath, Drugs & Cosmetics Act 1940, Pharmacy Act 1950, Pharm D regulations, Bridge Course for Pharm Drugs and Magic Remedies Act, Pharmacy Practice Regulations 2015 and Jan Aushadhi scheme.- Chapter 11. Speciality Pharmacy Services - ADR reporting and Pharmacovigilance, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Women during pregnancy, Cancer, Pain management and Nutrition.- Chapter 12. Medication Therapy Management - Importance and practice- Chapter 13. Over the Counter Medicine- Community Pharmacy and informed self-medication.- Chapter 14. Clinical Pharmacokinetics - ADME, Bioavailability & Bioequivalence, Dosage adjustments in CKD and Liver disease.- Chapter 15. Biotherpuetics - Monoclonal Antibodies, Biologicals, Bio generics, Biosimilar and Bio betters.- Chapter 16. Introduction to Clinical Trails and Biostatistics- Chapter 17. Introduction to Personalized Medicine and pharmacogenetics.- Chapter 18. Introduction to Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome research.- Chapter 19. Clinical Trails, Pharmacovigilance and drug safety.- Chapter 20. RCT, Systematic Reviews and Evidence based medicine.
Professor Anantha Naik Nagappa is currently working in the capacity of Director at Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior, India. He is backed by over 39 years of experience in Pharmacy and has held various prestigious positions in the area of Pharmacy. He specializes in the areas of Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Pharmacy Practice and Social Pharmacy. Dr. Nagappa has written 3 books, contributed over 50 book chapters and has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in reputed journals to his credit. He has completed 5 research projects funded by the government and pharmaceutical industry, and is the recipient of many prestigious awards. He serves on the Editorial Board of various National and International journals, and as a reviewer for various International journals as well.
Dr. Jovita Kanoujia is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior, India. Dr. Kanoujia received her Ph.D with the specialization in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, India with high research output in the area of novel drug delivery system. She has published several research papers in national and international high impact peer-reviewed journals, three book chapters with internationally renowned publishers.
Dr. Shvetank Bhatt has done M. Pharm in Pharmacology from Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka in 2006 and Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan. He is currently working as a Professor in Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University Madhya Pardesh (AUMP), Gwalior. He has total 15 years of industrial and academic research experience. He is recipient of Prof. Duggirala Visweswaram & Prof. Sreemantalu Satyanarayana Award. He has published more than 65 papers in various journals of national and international repute.
Dr Vaishnavi Naik, has done Pharm. D from Manipal University, Manipal Karnataka. She has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacy Practice of Dayanand Sagar University Bangalore. She is having work experience as drug safety associate in Bioclinica, Mysore. She is recipient of ACPE travel grant and ISPOR Dublin travel grant. She had done FIP Pharmabridge programme in community pharmacy. She has published research articles reviews, case studies and book chapters.
