Turacoz represented in 13^th Pharmacovigilance Conference in Chicago (27-28 Sep) as Speaker and participated as Panel member for discussion on very interesting topics. It was a platform wherein people from various domains of the industry shared their experience and future perspective related to Pharmacovigilance and it was extremely an honor meeting such brilliant experienced people.

Under the aegis of Turacoz Healthcare Solutions, Turacoz Skill Development Program conducted a seminar on medical writing at the National University of Singapore on 12th October, 2016. The seminar, headed by our lead trainer and medical director, Dr. Namrata Singh was focused on research proposal and publication, and medical writing as a career. With live assignments and discussion, Dr. Singh gave an update to the participants about how to write a research proposal, what is the importance of publication of a research, and how to initiate manuscript writing. She also emphasized on medical writing as a career option for medical students. The seminar was received with overwhelming response and valuable feedbacks.

Turacoz attended 6^thAisa- Pacific Pharma congress organized by Omics International on 12^th July,2016 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The aim of the conference was to connect pharmaceutical industries, universities, educational institutions, research centers and societies contributing to pharma industries on a single platform. Medical Director of Turacoz Healthcare Solutions Dr. Namrata Singh was a speaker at the conference who represented her views on Clinical Trial Disclosure and Redaction from Medical communication’s perspective. It was a wonderful experience meeting and interacting with the medical fraternity from all over the world.

Turacoz skill development program conducted a medical writing workshop on publication at Tata memorial hospital, Mumbai on 4^th June,2016. The workshop was headed by our lead trainer and medical director, Dr. Namrata Singh who focused on publication planning and submission. The participants involved doctors, research scholars and residents from ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre from medical oncology departments where they acknowledged that the workshop was really helpful. Dr. Namrata addressed the queries and day to day challenges faced by the doctors while writing their publication papers. There was an overwhelming responseand participants requested to conduct similar workshops in other departments.

Turacoz skill development program conducted a seminar on 02 June, 2016 in Center for Faculty Development (Faculty of Pharmacy), Jamia Hamdard University on medical writing. The participants involved experienced faculties from universities like KIET, BS Anangpuria Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University and reputed personalities from organizations like YES Regulatory Healthcare Services, Sun Pharma, Daiichi Sankyo. Dr. Namrata, Director of Turacoz introduced the scope of medical writing for both professors who are the contributors for scientific content and students who can choose it as a career option. There was an overwhelming response and participants suggested that such workshops should be organized more often at institutional level to help students enter the industry.

Turacoz Skill and Development program under the umbrella of Turacoz Healthcare Solutions successfully organized its second Medical Writing workshop in Dubai on 20^th May, 2016 at Four Points by Sheraton, Bur Dubai. We had a pool of doctors from various hospitals in UAE including Al Garhoud Private Hospital, Latifa hospital, Emirates Hospital, Dubai Hospital, NMC Hospital. Also we had people from medical affairs team of pharmaceutical companies.

It was a six hours workshop with live assignments and discussions. Our trainer doctor Namrata Singh gave an update to the participants about the latest guidelines on publication and the participants reciprocated with their experiences and queries related to publication. We got an overwhelming feedback and suggestions to continue this knowledge process.

We, Turacoz skill and development program will come up with our next workshop in UAE soon.

Turacoz Healthcare Solutions conducted a medical writing workshop on 16^th April, 2016 at Country Inn and suites by Carlson, Bangalore. The workshop primarily focused on publication where subjects like grammar, guidelines, biostatistics, referencing etc. were the topics of discussion. Doctors from the reputed hospitals, medical writers, medical managers and advisors from the pharmaceutical industry were the main audience. Live assignments and case studies made the session highly interactive where people came forward with their queries. The workshop was highly appreciated and valuable feedbacks were received.

Turacoz conducted a seminar on Medical writing as a career for over 125 students with Biotechnology and Life sciences background on February 17^th Wednesday at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. Medical writing was introduced as an opportunity to pursue it as career. Different roles that a medical writer would play in the healthcare industry and how would their career graph look in 5+years. Students were encouraged to participate in certification programs that would enhance their skills and were mentored as how and which industry should be approached. An overwhelming response was followed by a request for workshop.

Turacoz conducted a Medical writing workshop on February 16^th, Tuesday at Radisson Blu GRT, Chennai. It is one of the developed cites in India with brilliant minds who has produced some of the best doctors and scientists for the healthcare industry. The workshop covered three modules that included how to write publication articles like review articles, manuscripts, case reports etc. and what are the ethical concerns involved. The workshop gave the participants a practical experience by solving mini assignments and taking up the live assignments. The response was over whelming and we look forward to conduct these workshops more often.

Turacoz’s Medical Director, Dr. Namrata Singh was present at the InnoHealth conference held on February 5^th at PHD house, Chamber of Commerce, New Delhi. She was one of the panelist for Day 2, session 3-Discussion on Learning from emerging and developed economies. She gave her view about the importance of data sharing and integrity, reforms or policies required by the government for the healthcare sector and how innovations in healthcare should be mentored by the people who have a medical background. Other panelist in the session were Dr. Saurabh gupta, Assistant prof. NIT Raipur, Mr. Mika Heinonen, founder- Medipoc, Finland.