What you'll learn

This course equips learners with expertise in healthcare, pharmaceutical marketing, and nutrition support. It covers the healthcare industry, team dynamics, communication skills, pharmacoeconomics, drug utilization, and market research. Participants explore quality-of-life metrics, evidence-based decision models, health insurance, and formulary design. The nutrition support module addresses normal and abnormal nutrition, fluid-electrolyte balance, lifecycle nutrition, deficiencies, and patient management, including therapeutic guidelines and monitoring. Case studies focus on diabetes, lipid management, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases. Outcomes: Participants gain skills in healthcare marketing, nutrition therapy, patient care, and evidence-based decision-making for professional roles in healthcare and pharma industries.

  • 1.Introduction to Health care and Pharma Industry 2.Understanding Health care Team and Functioning 3.Good Communication skill : Multidicipline team members (Doctors, Nursing, Pharmacist, Hospital Admistration, patients etc) 4.Pharmacoeconomics and Decision models (Cost Minimization analysis, Cost effective analysis, cost utility analysis, Direct cost, Indirect cost) 5.Drug Utilization review and Market research report literature review and Research Methods 6.Quality of Life and Evidence based decision model 7.Community and Hospital Pharmacy: Drug Formulary design and decision model 8.In-depth Critical analysis of company strengths and weakness, Financial reports, Pipelines R&D molecules, competitors analysis etc 9.Health Insurance and Health care Industry 10.Continues medical education Programs and Its Importance: Role and responsibilities
  • 2.Lipid lowering and Weight Loss Drug: Disease, drugs and Lifestyle/Nutrition Counselling
  • 3.Cariovacular disease: Angina, MI and HF
  • 1.Basic of Nutrition Support (Normal and Abnormal Nutrition, Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Homeostasis, Disorders, Nutrition Requirements throughout the Lifecycle (e.g., pregnancy, pediatric, older adults) Nutrition Deficiencies and Toxicities, Malnutrition) 2.Therapeutics and Patient Management (Clinical Practice Guidelines) 3.Treatment Outcomes and Monitoring (Therapeutic Targets and Endpoints, Nutrition Status Monitoring, Clinical Status Monitoring, Adverse Events and Complications, Drug-Drug, Nutrient-Nutrient, and Drug-Nutrient Interactions, Adherence to Diet and Nutrition Support, Medication Reconciliation and Optimization)
  • 1.Diabetes : Pharmacological and Non Pharmacological Evidence based Management (Special focus on Insulin and Non Insulin Product) 2.Lipid lowering and Weight Loss Drug: Disease, drugs and Lifestyle/Nutrition Counselling 3.Cariovacular disease: Angina, MI and HF 1.Diabetes : Pharmacological and Non Pharmacological Evidence based Management (Special focus on Insulin and Non Insulin Product)
  • 4.Respiratory disease : Asthma and COPD

Dr. Kanav Khera
Professor

Working as Professor, Dept of Pharmacy Practice with more than 17 years of experience in clinical research/biomedical ethics/evidence-based medicine, antibiotic stewardship programs, pharmacovigilance, drug safety, clinical trials, and outcome research. Dr Kanav Khera is also an associate member secretory of the Institutional Ethics Committee at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, LPU. Dr Kanav Khera had vast experience in providing pharmaceutical care services in Tertiary care hospitals and handling medication errors and related problems. Had published more than 40 research papers in national and international journals and was invited as a guest speaker at various events. Dr Kanav Khera has been honoured with Best teacher and excellence in teaching awards and and also worked as Scientist 1 in a clinical research organization conducting clinical trials