- A goal oriented experimental pharmacologist and pharmacy manager with a focus on comprehensive patient care and counselling expert: for allergies, potential drug interactions, risk emission and mitigation strategy for high alert drugs; medication-therapy management (MTM), Pharmacy records management, Pharmaceutical inventory management, Regulatory compliance, and behavioral, neuro-endocrine and metabolic disorders research. - 10+ years of experience of presenting to groups, training/facilitating, or classroom instruction experience to bachelors and masters in pharmacy students, and medical students in the USA and India. Group presentations at major pharma healthcare annual events (viz. American Diabetes Association, Society of Biological Psychiatry etc). - Pharmacy Manager of the Year for excellent patient care and pharmacy management at Walmart (2022). - Young Scientist Award: by Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (2012) by Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India for a research proposal entitled: Significance of ghrelin-dopamine interactions in the co-morbidity of lifestyle diseases and neuropsychiatric disorders in high fat diet mice (Grant amount approx. USD 50,000). - Superior Biomedical Research Award: at Sinclair Community College/Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH (2010) - Research Assistantships for PhD research and M.Pharm. research - 1,000+ citations: till date and global recognition for original and innovative research contributions - “Invited Speaker” at 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Biowaivers, Biologics & Biosimilars. Hyderabad, India (2014) -“Invited Speaker” at 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Neurology & Therapeutics, Philadelphia (2014). - Served as a reviewer for journals: Psychopharmacology (Springer Publication), Metabolic Brain Research (Springer Publication), Pharmacology (Hindawi Publication), Neuroscience (Elsevier Publication), Behavioural Neurology (Karger Publication), Free Radicals and Antioxidants (Wolters Kluwer Mednow Publication), Metabolic Brain Disease; Neuroscience; Pharmacology; Behavioural Neurology, Alcohol and Alcoholism, Behavioral and Brain Functions, Brain Injury, Diabetes and Its Complications, Current Molecular Pharmacology and ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research and book chapter manuscripts. - Strong background in in-vivo and in-vitro preclinical models for screening of NCEs with firsthand knowledge of new drug discovery. Broad experience in experiment design, writing and editing of scientific documents and communications for peer-reviewed research journals, funding bodies, conferences, symposiums, departmental seminars and journal clubs. - Editorial work: Served as an Editor or Editorial Advisory Board Member for scientific journals [for example: (1) Global Journal of Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome; (2) WebmedCentral Alcoholism; (3) Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences; (4) Asian Journal of Biological and Life sciences; (5) International Journal of Biomedical and Advance Research; (6) Aperito Journal of Pharmacology and Drug Designing; (7) Acta Velit- An Online Journal of Pharmacy; (8) Archives of Pharmacy and Biological Science; and (9) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research]. Experienced in lab animal handling, microsurgery/brain punching and animal dosing with in-depth understanding of animal models for behavioral depression, psychosis, anxiety, epilepsy, stress disorders, diabetes, inflammation, allergic disorders etc. - Proven ability to train and supervise pre-grad / post-grad Pharm.D interns, M.S. (Pharmacology) and undergraduate students for laboratory research procedures. - Published papers in Translational Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, European Journal of Pharmacology, Journal of Psychopharmacology, Physiology and Behavior, Brain Research etc.