Biosketch

Krishna Undela completed his M.Pharm (Pharmacy Practice) from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) Mohali in 2012, and his Ph.D. from the JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Mysuru in 2019. He worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru, between October 2012 and August 2020. Thereafter, he started working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at NIPER Guwahati. He teaches subjects like Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacotherapeutics, and Evidence-Based Medicine. His thrust research areas are medication therapy management in chronic diseases, evidence synthesis, pharmacovigilance data mining, and health economics & outcomes research.

Krishna Undela has experience in conducting various Pharmacoepidemiological studies in hospital and community settings. He received the 2015 Endeavour Executive Fellowship from the Department of Education, Australian Government, to undertake three months of training on “Advanced Pharmacoepidemiology and Quality Use of Medicines” at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. He received travel grants from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) to attend ISPE conferences held in Hong Kong (in 2013), Taiwan (in 2014), Thailand (in 2015), and the USA (in 2021) as a delegate, and Australia (in 2017), China (in 2018), Japan (in 2019), Korea (in 2021), Taiwan (in 2022), and India (in 2023) as an Educational Session Speaker. He also received a travel grant from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) to attend the ISPOR European Congress held in Austria in 2016. Recently, he attended The Global Health Network Conference 2022 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, as a fully sponsored delegate.

Krishna Undela also has expertise in conducting Systematic reviews and Meta-analysis and has published papers in various peer-reviewed reputed journals, which are well cited. He presented one of his meta-analysis papers on ‘Statin use and risk of Parkinson’s disease’ at the 20th World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2013. Currently, there are more than 90 scientific publications to his credit. The total citations of his publications are 1300+ with an h-index of 16 and an i10-index of 20.

Krishna Undela delivered over 170 lectures at various national and international conferences on Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoeconomics, Clinical Pharmacy, and Systematic Review & Meta-analysis.

Krishna Undela is currently a Coordinator of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) South Asian Chapter, a Member of ISPE’s Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology (ACPE) International Steering Committee, ISoP Special Interest Groups on Medication Errors & Drug Safety in Older Patients, and ISPE Pediatric Special Interest Group. Krishna Undela is the Coordinator of the Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centre, Atal Incubation Centre, and Bio-NEST at NIPER Guwahati.