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Debu Baruah

Debu Baruah

Debu Moni Baruah’s background spans the fields of data analytics, R&D, and CDM. He has led many key innovation projects with a major focus on the areas of people, process, and technology in CROs, technology, and sponsor organizations. Debu has published over 40 articles, acted as a volunteer, Co-Editor, Editorial Board member of Journal of SCDM, Co-Author of the GCDMP chapters and member of multiple committees. He has organized and chaired several conferences and webinars for SCDM, DIA, and academia. He is a Registered Product Owner™ and lean six sigma black belt certified. Currently, Debu is acting as an associate director of analytics at GSK.

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Mukesh Babu

Mukesh Babu

Mukesh is an experienced clinical researcher with 17 years of industrial experience in major Pharma and CROs. He possesses cross-functional expertise in Clinical Operations, Data Management, Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM)/central monitoring, and Data Science. Mukesh specializes in RBQM and serves as a subject matter expert (SME) for focusing on implementing and optimizing RBQM tools and processes, such as Central Statistical Monitoring, Quality Tolerance Limits, and Risk Indicators.

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Loveena Gopalani

Loveena Gopalani

Loveena Gopalani has overall 20 years’ experience in Clinical Data Management and is associated with Pfizer for around 3 years. Prior to this, she was a Senior Project Manager in SIRO Clinpharm Pvt. Ltd. in various therapeutic areas for 17 years and was founding team member of SIRO – Pfizer engagement (2004-2009). In her tenure, Loveena played a key role in contributing to standardizing clinical data management processes, act as a mentor and trainer for SIRO clinical data management department and also provided key insights for EDC, LMS, SAP ERP, X-Sigma (indigenous excel database) and costing tool. She was also a speaker in SCDM Asia Conference 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2023. She is currently Global Project Manager in Pfizer and play a key role in contributing to standardizing clinical data management processes, supports vendor management and provides insights to platform development.

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Laxman Chavan

Laxman Chavan

Laxman Chavan is currently working as Director, Clinical Programming & Insights – DM (CDI), AstraZeneca in India.  In this role, he is accountable for establishing and expanding EDC programming, SAS programming, Analytics, Global Clinical Solutions & Standards team in India Hub.  

Prior to working with AstraZeneca, Laxman worked with Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, where he was responsible for leading database programming team and overseeing the E2E data flow, Study Build automation, SDTM exports & many such innovative projects. He had brief stints with TCS (J&J engagement) and SIRO Clinpharm (Pfizer engagement) outside his Pharma experience. 

Laxman is passionate about creating a highly efficient teams and looks for opportunities for process improvement & Innovation. He has completed Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Mumbai University, India.