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Drug firm AstraZeneca Pharma India stated that Gagan
Singh Bedi has taken over as the Managing Director of
the company with effect from July 1.
The company has accepted resignation of Sanjay
Murdeshwar as MD and as a director. He is shifting to
a global role within the AstraZeneca group, based in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, US. The Board has co-opted
Gagan Singh Bedi as additional director on the board,
who will take over as the Managing Director of the
company.
Singh had joined AstraZeneca Pharma India in
February 2006. Prior to joining AstraZeneca, he had
worked with Baxter India and Eli Lilly. Singh holds a
management degree from the Faculty of Management
Studies, Delhi University post an economics degree
from Delhi University.
Dr Ashok Seth, Chairman, Cardiac Sciences,
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has recently been
awarded the prestigious ‘Master Interventionalist’
recognition by the Premier Society of Cardiovascular
Angiography and Intervention (SCAI, the main
intervention society of USA).
The award comes as a recognition of his excellence
in invasive and interventionalist cardiology, which
has been manifested by a commitment to the highest
level of clinical care, innovation, publication and
teaching.
Dr Ashok Seth was given the privilege of
performing a live case of bioresorbable stent at
‘Institut Cardiovascularie Sud France’ at the Euro
PCR Congress in Paris – biggest intervention
meeting in the world.
Dr Seth is highly acknowledged for his role
in development and clinical applicability of the
Bioresorbable Scaffold (BRS) Stent. He has pioneered
several other angioplasty techniques and devices,
such as directional atherectomy, angioscopy, stents,
thrombectomy devices and drug eluting stents, use
of impella heart support device failing heart and
TAVI which have been successfully adopted both in
India and other countries in Asia Pacific.
Dr Ashok Seth was honoured with “Padma
Bhushan” and “Padma Shri” by the President of
India in 2015 and 2003 respectively. Dr Seth has
also been the President of the Cardiological Society
of India and Vice President of the Asian Pacific
Society of Cardiology.Dr Pallavi Darade, an Indian Revenue Service (IRS)
officer of the 1997 batch has taken over as the new
Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Commissioner recently.
Dr Darade was earlier serving
as additional municipal
commissioner in BMC and
was appointed on the
post by Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis.
Earlier too, she was on
deputation with the state
government and posted
as the additional tribal
development commissioner.
Prior to her brief stint
with the state government, she was an additional
commissioner of Income Tax. She is the wife of senior
bureaucrat Praveen Darade.
Dr Ashok Seth receives
prestigious ‘Master
Interventionalist’ award
AstraZeneca Pharma India
appoints Bedi as new MD
Dr Pallavi Darade is
the new Maharashtra
FDA Commissioner