President T.V.Narayana

Dr. T.V. Narayana completed his B.Pharm, M.Pharm, M.Phil and PhD from Andhra University, India and working as Director of Vikas Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. He has 25 years of experience in the eld of pharmacy and has been instrumental in uplifting the profession, particularly in pharmacy education in India. At present, he is Vice-President of The Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Mumbai and Chairman of IPA Education Division. He has been bestowed the honor of IPA fellowship in 2004 for his outstanding contribution.

He has initiated the IPA Student forum and organized 4 National Level Student Congresses and 125 workshops throughout the country for the benet of pharmacy students. His efforts and hard work motivated many pharmacy students throughout the country and resulted in the enrollment of nearly 5000 student pharmacists in IPA. He is responsible for creating the largest network of Indian pharmacy students throughout the country. He has organized 45 QIP Programmes to pharmacy teachers and 25 Continuing Education Programmes for Community and Hospital Pharmacists throughout the country.

He is Core Committee Member of the Indian Host Committee of the recently held FIP world Congress at Hyderabad in 2011 and Joint Secretary of the 63rd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress. He was a LOC Secretary for 68th IPC at Visakhapatnam. He is member of Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), a statutory body which regulates the pharmacy profession in India. He is active member of professional pharmacy and pharmacy Ethics Committee of PCI, New Delhi. He is the Hon. Gen. Secretary of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association (IPCA).

He is member of FIP since 2004 and has been attending the world congress of FIP since 2002. He has motivated and led the Indian pharmacists to FIP Congresses held at Egypt, China, Basel, Istanbul and Lisbon. He has attended the Global Pharma Education Task Force meetings as ofcial representative of IPA and promoted the ongoing projects of FIP in India. He is successful in promoting the FIP objectives in India and instrumental in framing the guidelines to suit the local needs.

He has been honored with many awards to his career including the Eminent Pharmacist and Fellowship of IPA for his outstanding service and contribution to the pharmacy profession. He has guided more than 1500 students to mould their career as community pharmacists throughout the country.