• Pharmaceutical care
• Drug information, drug intervention, drug interactions
• Drug utilisation evaluation, post-marketing surveillance, patient counseling
• Development of therapeutic guidelines
• Pharmacovigilance
• Poison information and analytical services
• Toxicological risk assessment
• Evaluation of treatment pattern in different specialties
• Pharmacokinetic studies
• Population pharmacokinetic modelling
• Medication errors
• Clinical trials related studies
• Community based studies
• Hospital Pharmacy management

What has been achieved:

• Patient counselling in asthma and diabetic patients
• Development of hospital formulary
• Development of therapeutic guidelines in urinary tract infections and surgical site infections
• Pharmacovigilance in specialties like dermatology, paediatrics, medical oncology, neurology, pulmonary thoraco and chest diseases
• Evaluation of treatment pattern in breast cancer, schizophrenia, coronary artery diseases and further follow up
• OTC medication usage in community pharmacy, education of pesticide safety in rural areas
• Study of volunteer recruitment process for clinical trials and BA-BE studies
• Work on salivary monitoring of drugs
• Drug-drug interaction surveillance in cardiology

Ongoing Research Projects

• Pharmacovigilance and poison information services evaluation in Kasturba Hospital, Manipal
• Pharmacoeconomics in Diabetes Mellitus
• Population pharmacokinetics of antiepileptics in neurology
• Drug utilisation of antihypertensive
• RCTs in Poison Management