Dr. ESHA SOOD

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PROFILE

A dedicated Public Health professional with research and community experience. Flexible team player with expertise in

Managing multicentric projects

Epidemiologic Skills

Data Collection and Reviewing Project Databases

Develop Reports for Project Progress as well as Final Reports

Programme Design and Evaluation

Data Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant (Med Monitor), CDSA THSTI, Faridabad (10nd Aug 2023 to present) in the project “A phase III, Randomized, Double-blind, three-arm Placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the two vaccines VPM1002 and Immuvac in Preventing TB in healthy household contacts of newly diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary TB patients”

• Provide a safety review during the execution of the clinical trial as per the pre-defined and approved safety management plan. This oversight includes reviewing safety information and providing applicable recommendations.

• Interpretation of single and/ or grouped adverse events, serious adverse events, drug effect and attribution of causality, and disease condition

• Educating, training, and mentoring research teams in safety monitoring and reporting

• Conducting on-site medical monitoring visits and communicate the observations through a detailed visit report

• Assisting sponsor in preparation of expedited and periodic reports

• Review of clinical narrative reports describing the event and support in finalization.

• Participate in the development of CRF, statistical analysis plan (SAP), DMC charter and other documents as required by the study.

• Participate in study management team meetings, DMC and technical review meetings, as required.

• Interact with investigative sites, address protocol/medical questions in consultation with the sponsor medical monitor

• Perform a review of data generated by data listings or statistical analyses.

• Review medical coding of safety data

• Review individual data with SAEs and potentially clinically important laboratory tests or vital sign abnormalities.

• Participate in all reviews and procedures required for database lock.

• Provide the Study Team with medical expertise during key activities

• Contribute to, draft and/or edit Clinical Study Reports (CSR)

• Assist in the development of scientific meeting abstracts and presentations as well as manuscripts

• Participate in the development of CRF, statistical analysis plan (SAP), DMC charter and other documents as required by the study.

• Participate in study management team meetings, DMC and technical review meetings, as required.

• Interact with investigative sites, address protocol/medical questions in consultation with the sponsor medical monitor

• Perform a review of data generated by data listings or statistical analyses.

• Review medical coding of safety data

• Review individual data with SAEs and potentially clinically important laboratory tests or vital sign abnormalities.

• Participate in all reviews and procedures required for database lock.

• Provide the Study Team with medical expertise during key activities

• Contribute to, draft and/or edit Clinical Study Reports (CSR)

• Assist in the development of scientific meeting abstracts and presentations as well as manuscripts

Scientist D (Med), Radiation Oncology, Dr BRA IRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (12th April, 2022 to 22nd June, 2023) in ICMR funded project “A phase ii study to evaluate the efficacy of SBRT for high-risk organ-confined prostate carcinoma”

Oversight of screening of patients in the trial, reporting SAEs and other documentation

Managing a project “Development and validation of real-time Artificially Intelligent Multi-Omic Platform for Neuro-Oncology”

Managing data collection activities and maintenance of the online database which would be later used for the Development and integration of digital twins and Artificial intelligence tools for the project

Planning, designing, and guiding Lab and Field-based projects- Writing protocols for the project and coordinating various activities going on in the project

Preparing budgets and Utilization Certificates for the project- Preparation of annual and final budget and Utilization Certificates for submission to the Indian Council of Medical Research

Co-ordinating with funding agencies for funds

Preparing reports and reviewing project developments- Preparation of monthly reports to track project progress

Organizing meetings/workshops/trainings- Organizing meetings for project meetings for collaboration and decision making

Making Presentations, and preparing data summaries, reports, analysis that include results, graphs, and charts to document research findings and trend results

Systematic Reviews- Reporting to the Primary Investigator and carrying out relevant tasks for conducting high-quality systematic reviews, developing the protocol, data collection and quality assessment.

Ethics submission- documentation for ethics approval

Scientist B (Med), National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Psychiatry and NDDTC, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in ICMR funded project “Development and validation of an Indian instrument to assess the severity of the substance-related problem” (1st Nov2019 to 12th April 2022)

Managing a multi-site Project- “Development and validation of an Indian instrument to assess the severity of the substance-related problem” a multi-institutional project running at 5 sites that were AIIMS New Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur, AIIMS Rishikesh, AIIMS Patna and JIPMER Pondicherry.

Overall Co-ordination of all Project activities

Data Analysis and preparation of monthly reports to track project progress

Review the study database and develop data reports to track project progress

Develop and design data collection tools on Red-Cap- The data collection tool being validated was designed on Red-Cap along with demographic form and data collection tools for another project “Heart rate variability and autonomic parameters for supplementing clinical assessment of opioid withdrawal” which were designed on Red-Cap

Submitting project Budgets and Utilization Certificates- Preparation of Annual and Final project budget and Utilization Certificates for submission to the Indian Council of Medical Research

Managing and Coordinating Phase-wise Research tool development, piloting and validation in the project

Making Presentations for project meetings and conferences using data summaries, reports, and analysis that included results, graphs and charts to document research findings and trends

Designing and conducting Online Surveys of stakeholders using Google forms

Organizing meetings/workshops/training- Organizing meetings for project meetings for collaboration and decision-making by stake holders.

Systematic Reviews- Reporting to the Primary Investigator and carrying out relevant tasks for conducting high-quality systematic reviews/scoping reviews, developing the protocol, data collection and quality assessment

Review of literature on scales assessing substance-related problems

Senior Research Fellow (Med), Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in a CDC funded project “Indian Network of Surveillance Platforms for Influenza and other Respiratory viruses in Elderly” (from 1st Jan 2019 to – 31st Oct 2019)

Supervision of field surveillance staff in surveillance and other research activities.

Coordination of the Central Research site at Delhi with other sites in other cities

Online Submission of Weekly and Cumulative reports of the ongoing research activities using MS Excel and MS Word

Preparation of documentation for field staff

Data cleaning and analysis using different statistical tools

Making Presentations related to Project Work

Training and Retraining of the field staff in surveillance and sample collection

Diagnosis and medication of the site patients in project operated OPD’s

Looking after the data issues in the dashboard and the drop box

Drafting of tables and charts for research articles

OTHER EXPERIENCE

GURU NANAK HEALTHCARE CENTRE (NGO), Hauz Khas, Delhi, Dental Consultant (from 1st Dec 2010 to 31st Dec 2018)

Dental OPD and monitoring of the clinic staff

Diagnosis, treatment and medication of dental patients

Taking and interpretation of X rays and OPG’s

Extractions, RCTs, restorations, prosthetics, scaling and root planning

Procurement of equipment for the clinic and coordinating with medicine suppliers and dental dealers

SPECIAL SKILLS

Languages- Fluent in English, Hindi and Punjabi

Computers- Proficient in Word, Excel, STATA and Red Cap ; Internet

Courses and Certificates-

Certificate course in GRADE by ICMR and Cochrane collaboration

Certificate course in Systematic Reviews by ICMR and Cochrane

Certificate of completion of the course “Measuring risk in Epidemiology” from the University of Washington

Certificate of completion “Outbreak Investigation” from the University of Washington

Health Technology Assessment (Advanced Health Economics Course) from PGI Chandigarh

Certificate of BCLS and ACLS provider from AHA (Training from Max Hospital, Saket)

PUBLICATIONS

Sarkar S and Sood E, Barriers and Facilitators of Addiction Treatment: A Qualitative Study, Aug 2020, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction,,1-19 DOI- 10.1007/s11469-020-00394-x

Sarkar S, Sood E, Bhad R, Mishra R “Validated Scales for Substance use Disorders in the Geriatric Population: A Scoping Review” : A scoping review. J Geriatr Ment Health 2021; 8:70-6. DOI- 10.4103/jgmh.jgmh_38_21

Chattopadhyay A, Sarkar S, Mandal P, Sood E, Thakur A. “ Common Barriers and facilitators of addiction treatment among treatment-seeking population” Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry 2022;38:32-7. DOI: 10.4103/ijsp.ijs

EDUCATION

Pg Diploma in Public Health (Epidemiology as major)

Bachelor of Dental surgery (2010) from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 62%

12th passed in 2004 from AISSCE, DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL 82%

10th passed in 2002 from AISSCE, 86%

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