Vivek Lal
King Faisal University
Saudi Arabia
Biography
He is a Doctor of Medicine in Pharmacology with a 14 years’ experience in the specialty and 24 years as a clinician. He has been actively involved with pre-clinical drug research, clinical research, hospital administration and hospital logistics support system (Pharmacy management, equipment procurement & maintenance, turnkey projects etc). His expertise revolves around the training of medical graduates & post graduates (inculcating interest in rational pharmaco-therapeutics), so also in pre-clinical drug research involving in-vitro/in-vivo Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics. He has hands on experience in the traditional as well as the Problem Based Learning (PBL) medical curricula being followed in different medical schools all over the world. He has been an under-graduate and post-graduate examiner for many medical universities in India. Notably, he has initiated a mammoth toxicology & toxinology project for the Indian Armed Forces, involving the compilation & designing of a poison database & poisoning registry for the Indian Armed Forces Personnel & their families. On the administrative front, he has effectively controlled medical staff in 200-600 bedded hospitals.