Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 27: Prof (Dr) Vishal R Tandon from GMC Jammu has been nominated as National faculty to frame Evidence Based National Treatment Guidelines of most common diseases like Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Dyslipidaemia, COVID-19 etc for the prestigious Indian Society of Rational Pharmaco-therapeutics (ISRPT).
These guidelines shall be framed as per the existing level of scientific evidence and grade of recommendations in their favour with the help of leading clinicians and pharmacologist of repute from the country who shall serve as guest faculty. Dr HS Reehan, Director Professor Pharmacology, Lady Harding Medical College New Delhi and Dr Vishal Tandon, Professor, GMC Jammu shall be finally editing and compiling these National Treatment Guidelines for the society in form of a book, which shall also be published in leading journals for wider utility of practitioners.
Dr Tandon was also the invited faculty/chairperson in recently held prestigious 13th National Conference of ISRPT, 2021 held at Indore. He chaired various sessions viz. “Clinical trials in COVID-19; Accelerated Preclinical Paths for Rapid development of COVID Therapies and Pragmatic Clinical Trials”.
He also delivered guest lecture on the topic “Art of medical content writing of adverse drug reactions”. In his lecture, he stressed to maintain Good Pharmacovigilance Practices and provide complete medical Information of the adverse drug reaction for speedy generation of drug signal/alerts so that drug safety can be enhanced for the patients.