Organizing committees

Colloquium Organizing Committee

The Colloquium Organizing Committee comprises local members from the South Asian Cochrane Centre, and from the South Asian Cochrane Network in India. Their primary function relates to overall planning, logistics, advocacy, sponsorships, and liaison; and ensuring the success of the 2014 Hyderabad Colloquium.

South Asian Cochrane Centre

South Asian Cochrane Network (India)

Prathap Tharyan (Chair)

Sreekumaran Nair (Co-Chair)

Ajay Tripathy (Organising Secretary)

Sridharan Ramaratnam (Co-Chair)

Jabez Paul Barnabas (Registration, Transport)

Kameswar Prasad (Co-Chair) 

Richard Kirubakaran (Abstracts, Workshops)

Meenu Singh (Co-Chair)

Thambu David (Scientific Programme)

Rajiv Sarin (Co-Chair)

Anna Joseph (Communications, Media)

Lakshminarasimhan Ranganathan

Rebecca Mathew (Accommodation, Registration)

Joseph Mathew

Venkatesh Parthasarathy (IT, Web Development)

Vivekanand Jha

Samuel Victor (Accounts)

Suneeta Mittal

 

Vasumathi Sriganesh

 

Narasimhan Swaminathan

 

Bhaumika TV

 

Hyderabad team

GVS Murthy

(Indian Institute of Public Health- IIPH) Hyderabad

Evita Fernandes

(Fernandes Hospital, Hyderabad)

AT Jotheeswarn, IIPH, Hyderabad

Suresh Kumar, IIPH, Hyderabad

Events Team

 

Ruban Das (Event Manager- HICC)

Payment Gateway: HDFC Bank 

Sunayana Kanchan (Events - HICC)

 

Jonty Rajagopalan (Detours India)

 

Ramesh Iyengar (Royal Transport)

 

Radha & Venkataraman (We-are-enchanted)

 

KWC Communications (Registration, Publicity, Permissions)

 

 

 

International Advisory Board

The International Advisory Board comprises key stakeholders from Cochrane’s Central Executive, Editorial and Operations Units; and members of Cochrane’s Global Network, who will take on an advisory, advocacy and mentoring role; and assist with interpreting Colloquium policies, and implementing priorities, and strategic goals, through the holding of this Colloquium.

Cochrane's Global Network

Clive Adams

Mingming Zhang

Elizabeth Waters

Paul Garner

Jeremy Grimshaw

Paula Waugh

Jini Hetheringon

Sally Green

Lisa Bero

Steve McDonald (Mentor)

Lisa McGovern

 Lorne Becker

Mary Schaafsma

 Mike Clarke

Julianne Reid (Colloquium Policy Advisor)

Jordi Pardo  Pardo (Colloquium Policy Advisor)

Cochrane Central Executive

Mark Wilson (Cochrane-CEO)

David Tovey (Cochrane-Editor-in Chief)

Claire Allen (Cochrane Operations)

Maria Burgess (Cochrane Operations)

Harriet MacLehose (Cocrhrane Editorial Unit)

Helen Morton (Cochrane Communications)

Lucie Binder (Central Executive)

Nancy Owens (Cochrane Comunications)

 

Scientific Programme Committee

The Scientific Programme Committee is the lead programme planning committee and its members provide input on the broad direction of the scientific programme, and in particular, the planning of the plenary sessions. 

 

 

 

 

 

Co-Chairs

Tharyan, Prathap: India

Nair, Sreekumaran: India

Green, Sally: Australia

Garner, Paul: UK

Members: India

Prasad, Kameshwar (SASIANCC)

Singh, Meenu (SASIANCC)

Ramaratnam, Sridharan (SASIANCC)

Ranganathan, Lakshmi Narasimhan (SASIANCC)

David, Thambu India (SASIANCC)

Awasthi, Shally (INDIAClen)

Members: Cochrane's Global Community

Abeysena, Chrishantha-Sri Lanka (SACIANCC)

Das, Jai- Pakistan (SASIANCC)

Qadri, Firdausi- Bangladesh (SASIANCC)

 

Atalla, Álvaro N –Brazil

Ahn, Hyeong Sik- Korea

Bonfill, Xavier-Brazil–Australia

Bero, Lisa-USA

Deeks, Jon - UK

Dickersin, Taddy-USA

Doyle,  Jodie-Australia

Gartlehner, Gerald-Austria

Ghersi, Davina- Australia

Groves, Trish-UK

Guyatt, Gordon- Canada

Hill, Sophie- Australia

Ho,  Jackie – Malaysia

Hooft, Lotty, Netherlands

Jeffery,  Mark - New Zealand

Leeflang, Mariska - Netherlands

Li, Youping- China

Lyddiatt, Anne- Canada

Mahan, Kathy –Italy

Martí-Carvajal, Arturo J- Ecuador

Mbuagbaw, Lawrence- Canada

Moja, Lorenzo-Italy

Nabhan, Ashraf - Egypt

Oliver, Sandy –UK

Oxman, Andy- Norway

Pena-Rosas, Juan Pablo- Switzerland

Petticrew, Mark-UK

Salanti, Georgia-Greece

Schaafsma,  Mary Ellen –Canada

Shemilt, Ian-UK

Schunemann, Holger- Canada

Sinclair, David- UK

Thaler, Kylie - Austria

Tovey, David- UK

Volmink, Jimmy-South Africa

Waters, Liz-Australia

Young, Taryn - South Africa

  Zhang, Mingming- China