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Sameer Khan is Data Manager for the BJ Medical College Clinical Research Site (BJGMC-CRS) in Pune, India for clinical studies funded by two NIH trial networks: the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) and the International Maternal Paediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT). He has 20 years of experience in clinical data management and has been working in computer science projects for the last 30 years. He worked as Database Administrator cum QA/QC administrator on a collaborative, NIH-funded clinical trial conducted by Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and BJ Medical College...

Vandana Kulkarni has a master’s degree in microbiology and has completed the Professional Development Program for Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs in Biopharmaceutical Industry. Ms. Kulkarni is Laboratory Manager at Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College Clinical Research Site ( BJMC-CRS ) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, where she has worked since September of 2004. During the last 11 years, she has worked in the research laboratory providing lab support to NIH-funded ACTG and IMPAACT trials as well other studies. She is responsible for the...

Ms. Rupali Mahapure has a bachelor’s degree in commerce majoring in accounting and has 8 years of experience in budgeting and monitoring all financial and administrative aspects of the JHIPL subcontracts. She is currently the Finance Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins India Pvt. Ltd. (JHIPL) in India. She is responsible for preparing all budgets for the JHIPL, ensuring compliance with the sponsor procurement requirements; overseeing HR with regards to staff contracts, payroll, taxation; accounting, reconciliation, monthly invoicing, travel, office administration, and ensuring that all expenses...

New Delhi, India Current Position Padum Narayan is Data Manager/Analyst at the Johns Hopkins Center for Infectious Diseases in India. He is a member of the team in New Delhi, India, and has worked with the Johns Hopkins-India infectious diseases partnership for more than two and a half years. He is responsible for data management and analysis activities under ACCELERATE project in India. He is providing technical assistance to NACO on various SI related activities including development of technical briefs, research and secondary data analysis plans. He is also responsible for coordinating the...

Aparna Nijampurkar is working as a Data Manager at the BJGMC-JHU Clinical Research Site, Pune, India for the Network as well as Non-Network Clinical studies and is responsible for the day-to-day data management activities at the site. She works closely with the study coordinators, clinicians, all clinic staff, and data staff to ensure the accuracy and quality of the data. She has done B.Sc. in Physics and has overall 20 years of work experience with BJGMC CTU and 6 years of experience in her current position as Data Manager with BJGMC CTU. She is trained in HSP-GCP and HIPPA guidelines. She...

Dr. Paradkar is Senior TB Research Manager and Study Coordinator for Johns Hopkins Center for Infectious Diseases in India (JH-CIDI), and is based at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site (BJGMC-JHU-CRS) in Pune, India. He coordinates the Regional, Prospective, Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT India) studies at the site including: Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (CTRIUMPh) and its several ongoing biomarker substudies, the phase 1 and 2 Common protocol, RICC Pediatric Transcriptomic study (Co-PI...

Dr. Sandesh Patil holds position of “Senior Manager-HIV” with the John Hopkins Centre for Infectious Diseases in India (CIDI), India and serves at BJMC-CRS, in Pune, India. He has more than 18 years of experience in clinical research and has worked in different capacities including as Research Officer and Study Clinician, Clinical Coordinator, Study coordinator and Senior manager, in NIH-funded ACTG and IMPAACT network clinical trials. In addition to his Masters in Public Health degree, he has a postgraduate degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He has a track record of leading and managing...

Rose Pollard Kaptchuk (she/her) is a social science researcher pursing a PhD in International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She uses mixed methods and participatory approaches to study how to improve HIV services through community-based perspectives. Rose is partnering with ACCELERATE to explore person-centered care as a model to support transgender and gender diverse communities in India.

Dr. Priyanka Raichur, MBBS, MPH is a Study Coordinator/Clinician at the BJGMC-JHU Clinical Research Site, Pune, India. She is currently working on the PREEMPT study, which aims to evaluate the predictors of emergence of resistance among adult MDR TB patients. She is also handling the BEAT TB Asia study which is an interrupted time series mixed-methods aiming to identify a behavioral economics approach to overcome barriers to TPT delivery in public clinics in the Philippines, Indonesia and India, and the A5407 study, which is a Phase 3 multicenter randomized trial among adult COVID positive...