Dr. Ritesh Giri

Assistant Professor

• School/College

  Faculty of Pharmacy

• Department

  Department of Pharmacy Practice

Dr. Ritesh Giri is a highly competent pharmacist with extensive training and experience in the field of Oncology. He has a keen interest in providing meticulous clinical services, including drug and disease information, performing medication chart reviews, dosage adjustments, patient counseling, and adverse drug reaction reporting, to healthcare professionals and patients. As an educator, he has significant experience teaching students and interns at patients' bedsides, and he has recently taken on a role in didactic classroom teaching of various clinical subjects. He aims for conceptual learning and simplifies complex concepts for better understanding.

One of the highlights of his Pharm.D Internship was his selection for a student exchange program, where he had the opportunity to undergo shadowed training under various Clinical Pharmacists at the UNC Hospitals and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, from November 1st to December 31st, 2016. Additionally, he underwent clinical training at HCG Hospital, KR Road, Bengaluru, from July 1st to September 30th, 2019, as part of his Clinical Residency Program during his external rotation.

During his tenure at Navya Care Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Dr. Giri was recruited as a member of a pilot study group from the Clinical Team. This study was conducted in collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, USA, in May 2020