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Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Facilities
The department has laboratories as well as Ayurveda research centre wherein experimental and clinical research on plant as well as synthetic compounds is carried out.
The laboratories include
Using
the available facilities, following activities are carried out:
Drug
spectrum
Department is proud
of its activity of disseminating information to the practicing doctors and residents
about rational use of drugs. Drug Spectrum, the bulletin for residents started
almost 30 years ago has now taken a new form of e-bulletin. It is released every
3 months and provides information related to new drugs introduced in India, controversies
related to the use of drugs, current guidelines, news and views and recent advances
in the field. The readers are welcome to give suggestions and ask questions if
any.
Collaborations
The
Department collaborates with other basic, speciality and superspeciality Departments
in K.E.M. Hospital. It also interacts closely with Institutes like
Achievements
The training programme offered by the Department is of the highest standards. This is corroborated by its Undergraduate and Postgraduate academic record and the fact that all the Postgraduate students, who have completed their training from the Department, are currently well placed in their careers, either in academics or in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
In terms of research too, the achievements of the Department are mirrored by its research publications in various acclaimed journals, both International and National and by the various books that have been published by its staff members.
It
has been a pioneer department in setting up an Ayurveda Research Centre and has
been able to deliver to the market a standardized, whole extract of an immunostimulant
plant.
Research Publications
The department has a more than
2000 original research papers published in various national and international
journals of repute since 1926. In addition it has contributed to the discipline
of pharmacology by publishing text books on Pharmacology, Research Methodologies,
Ayurveda and Phytomedicine.
Some of the important publications are as follows:
*History
of Pharmacology
Paranjpe AS. Pune, 1963
*Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
Satoskar RS, Bhandarkar SD, Kale AK. Bombay : Popular Prakashan, 1969
*Selected
Topics in Experimental Pharmacology Sheth
UK, Dadkar NK, Kamat UG, Bombay
: The Kothari Book Depot, 1972,2005
*Pharmacopoeia and Residents' Guide
Sheth UK, Kulkarni BS, Bhandarkar SD, Gandre MV. Bombay : Seth GS Medical
College & KEM Hospital, 1972
*Ayurveda Revisited
Dahanukar SA, Thatte
UM Bombay : Popular Prakashan, 1989
*Selected Topics in Clinical Pharmacology
Kshirsagar NA, Gupta KC Bombay : Indian Council of Medical Research, 1990
*Residents' Manual
Abraham P, Thatte UM Bombay : Seth GS Medical
College & KEM Hospital, 1993
*Research Methodologies in Ayurveda
Kamat
SK, Rege NN, Thatte UM Bombay : Ayurvidyavardhini (as part of ?Update Ayurveda?),
1994
*Indian Drug Industry After GATT
Karandikar SM Bombay : MVIRDC,
World Trade Centre, 1994
*Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
Satoskar
RS, Bhandarkar SD, Ainapure SS Bombay : Popular Prakashan, 1994
*Heal
with Herbs
Dahanukar SA, Hazra A New Delhi:Publications & Information Directorate
(CSIR) 1995
*Ayurveda Unravelled
Dahanukar SA, Thatte UM New Delhi
: National Book Trust, 1996
*Techniques in Pharmacology,
Pharmatech-96,
Hazra A, Rege NN, Thatte UM, Dahanukar SA Bombay : Dept. of Pharmacology,
Seth
GS Medical College & KEM Hospital,1996
*Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics
Satoskar RS, Bhandarkar SD, Rege Nirmala Bombay : Popular Prakashan, 2005.
*Selected topics review and MCQ's in Pharmacology
Joshi G. Bhalani
medical book house, 2005
*Teacher's Manual for practicals in II M.B.B.S.
teaching programs (M.U.H.S.)
Dr. Kamat S.K., Dr. Thatte U.M., Dr. Rege N.N.
Bombay : Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital.
*Drug prescription writing
for students
Dr.Rege NN, Dr. Kamat SK, Dr.Karve AV, Dr. Shetty YC, Dr. Chakkarvar
P.
*Residents'manual
Dr. NN Rege and Dr AN Supe
Contact
Dr. Balwant D. Samant
Head and Professor
e- mail: infopharmac@kem.edu
For
Ayurveda Research Center: visit the ARC site
e-mail:
kemarc@vsnl.com
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