Our Team

Dr. Naman Shashtri

Founder Director
  • Dr. Naman is highly skilled and dedicated Cardiac Anaesthesiologist and Critical care Intensivist with sound background of Academics and Leadership with motivational approach.
  • After completing MBBS and MD (Anaesthesia) from M. P. Shah Medical College, Jamnagar with Gold medal, he gained mastery in Perioperative  Echocardiography in 3D and advances.
  • Being pioneer of training in Perioperative echocardiography in the state of Gujarat  and to the extent of Western India particularly in 3D Echocardiography ,He conducts National 3D Echocardiography Live “Hands-on Workshop” every year .
  • His expertise is in Managing Cardiac Surgery for the Patients having Heart failure including Heart Transplant and transplant critical care, Surgical Ventricular restoration with perioperative Echocardiography. Dr Shastri’s proficiency is in establishing  echocardiography  protocol and it’s training for Ischemic, Rheumatic and Degenerative Mitral Valve and Aortic Valve Repair surgeries in Western part of India  
  • Being Director of teaching fellowship program for Cardiac and non cardiac Anesthesiology, he has organized many workshops to accelerate skills of the students
  • He has served as a Dean of Echocardiography for Indian Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists (IACTA) from 2018 to 2022.
  • He is a Fellow of American Society of Echocardiography (FASE), Indian Society of Transesophageal Echocardiography (FIACTA-TEE) and “The Simulator Society”.He also has obtained Fellowship of European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI).
  • Having the great ability of teaching, he has been awarded fellowship of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and thoracic Anaesthesiology.(FIACTA)
  • He is visiting faculty for academics, training and research for Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, at U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre, Ahmedabad, India and also visiting faculty at Dept. of Anesthesia, Shri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Science, Bangalore. India;
  • He has delivered several International lectures and organized workshops to exchange the skills in Peri-operative echocardiography and responsible for uplifting the implication of 3D echocardiography in State.
  • He has more than 25 years of experience in clinical practice and clinical research.
  • He has served as Principal Investigator or Sub-investigator for more than 15 industry sponsor clinical trials.

Dr. Jignesh Patel

Chief Scientific Officer
  • Dr. Jignesh Patel is pharmaceutical and clinical research scientist with more than 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical and medical device research. His areas of expertise include translational research and first-in-human clinical trials, various phase 1 clinical trials like single and multiple ascending dose studies, various clinical pharmacology studies and other early phase clinical trials of medical devices, drugs and modified release formulations, new drug delivery systems, biologics, biosimilars and vaccines.
  • He has done bachelor & master in pharmacy from L. M. College of Pharmacy, India, and PhD in Pharmacology under the guidance of Dr. Ramesh K. Goyal, renowned pharmacology scientist and Ex-vice-chancellor of M. S. University, Vadodara. He has done various clinical pharmacology courses from NIH, USA. He had published more than 40 scientific papers in various scientific journals. He has received many national and international awards for his research work and scientific publications.
  • He had worked with Sun Pharma’s Global R & D Centre, Vadodara, India for 10 years as “In-charge of Phase 1 clinical trial unit”. Dr. Jignesh is pioneer of setting up India’s first phase 1 clinical trial unit of Sun Pharma. He is also the pioneer of setting up India’s dedicated first Phase 1 clinical trial unit & Pharmacodynamics Labs of CBCC Global Research, at India & USA. During his early career, he has worked as clinical research coordinator (CRC) at various hospital sites and has handled clinical trials of global pharma industries including Sanofi, GSK, Pfizer, BMS, Boehringer Ingelheim, J & J, Medtronic etc. through various contract research organizations (CROs) like Quintiles, Covance, Icon, PPD etc. He has also worked as a project manager for global clinical trial and have handled EU and UK sites.
  • He has directly led the clinical development of more than 10 NCEs-based INDs, more than 14 NDDS, 37 medical devices, 3 Biosimilars, 2 Biologics, 2 vaccines & more than 140 generic products for USFDA, EMA, MHRA, ANVISA, CDSCO, Malaysia and many other regulated markets.

CA Sandip Desai

CFO
  • CA Sandip Desai, Founder Partner of Sandip Desai & Co., has almost thirty years of experience as a practicing Chartered Accountant.
  • He is a CFO in Clinnext Core Lab & CRO LLP and managing the financial aspects and Investment planning of the company in India and overseas.
  • Sandip is also owning Accounting and Tax Outsourcing company in USA and in India.  He is also having experience in IT Healthcare for more than 15 years for providing outsourcing services to leading Healthcare Companies of USA as an offshore development centre in India.
  • Furthermore, he has guided clients in leveraging technology in their businesses, resulting in significant cost savings for them. He is experienced in transferring tasks across different geographies, from various states of India and also from the USA to India. He has a track record of developing a strong team characterized by talent and a high-performing culture.

Mr. Kalpesh Bhavsar

Cardiovascular Core Lab In-charge
  • Mr. Kalpesh is a highly experienced cardiovascular core lab expert having experience in cardiovascular image analysis for various clinical trials.
  • He has done B.Sc.in Physics, Post Graduate certification in X-ray & PG Diploma in Cathlab Technology.
  • He is having >25 years of work experience in cathlab with involvement in clinical trials involving cardiovascular Image analysis including QCA, QVA, IVUS and OCT.
  • He had worked with Imaeon cardiovascular corelab, Ahmedabad in association with Genae Associate based at Antwerp, Belgium for many clinical trials involving image analysis.
  • He had worked for many European Cardiovascular Corelab projects include Confirm (IVUS), Destiny (QVA), Minnow FIM (QVA), Minnow II (QVA-RF), Excellent (QVA-Eximer Laser BTK), Expand (QVA), Levant I (QVA-DEB), Prolimus(QCA), Pioneer(QCA), DEBUT (QCA-Bifurcation) etc.
  • He has also worked on many clinical trial projects in India with CBCC Global Research LLP include Nenolute (QCA), Biomime Branch-1 (QCA & OCT-Bifurcation), EVERMINE50 EES-1 (QCA & OCT), PSEZES (QCA), Morph India (QCA), MOZEC SEB PTCA (QCA – DEB).

Mr. Dhaval Shah

Manager- Business Development
  • He has done B.com, M.com, Post Graduate certification of a master in business Administration.
  • He is having >09 years of work experience in Clinical Research organization.
  • Mr. Dhaval has experience in Business Development in Clinical Research Organisation.
  • He had worked for many CRO organizations, pharmacovigilance Companies, auditing & monitoring company, and statistical Services  etc

MS. Ruchi Patel

Associate Project Manager - Core Lab
  • She has done B.E (BioMedical Engineering), Post Graduate certification in Cathlab Technology.
  • She is having >05 years of work experience in cathlab with involvement in clinical trials involving Image analysis including QCA, QVA and OCT.
  • She had worked in Cathlab & she was well versed in cardiovascular imaging like  Angiography, IVUS and OCT.
  • Ms. Ruchi is an having experience in cardiovascular image analysis for various clinical trials.
  • Also she got training in Cardiovascular Imaging Analysis software for core lab in different imaging modalities like QCA, QVA, IVUS, OCT, QFR, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT, etc.

Team’s Experience in Clinical Research

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Network of >100 site across India
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Clinical studies including clinical studies of coronary stents, balloons and heart valve handled by the team in their past work experience

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Patients recruitment experience of the team in cardiology and cardiac interventional medical device clinical studies

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Clinical studies involving image analysis at central imaging core laboratory in cardiac interventional medical device clinical studies