Panel Discussion: India's New Medical Device Law

Sumati Randeo, Associate Director Asia/Pacific Regulatory Strategy and Advocacy, Strategic RA, Abbott Quality & Regulatory (AQR) and Ashok Kakkar, Director, Government Business & PPP, GE Healthcare India

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

 

Ms. Sumati Randeo holds the position of Associate Director Asia/Pacific Regulatory Strategy and Advocacy, Strategic RA, Abbott Quality & Regulatory (AQR). In this role, she provides regulatory strategic leadership across the Asia/ Pacific region in collaboration with all of the Abbott businesses, AQR groups, Legal, and Corporate Government Affairs. Additionally, she actively supports Abbott Vascular in terms of key regulatory submissions and relationships with government authorities in South and Southeast Asia.

 

Sumati is a Pharmacist, certified ISO 13485:2003 Lead Auditor and has been with Abbott for 5 years. She has 16 years of experience in related health care industry. At Abbott Vascular, Sumati was formerly Head of RA for South and Southeast Asia, besides supporting the area on Government Affairs and policy. She was also responsible for coordinating Abbott Vascular's QA /Compliance activities across Asia / Pacific.

Sumati holds the position of Technical Committee Vice Secretariat for Asian Harmonization Working Party for India. Active member of Technical committee working groups of Asian Harmonization Working Party (AHWP) and has successfully held workshops for the training of the regulators from various regulatory authorities like DOH Taiwan, Thai FDA, Singapore HSA and DCGI India. Sumati also represents Abbott Singapore in Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings and deliberates on upcoming regulations and regulatory reforms for Medical Devices in the ASEAN region.

 

Ashok Kumar Kakkar is the Director, Government Business & PPP of GE Healthcare, South Asia. Ashok has a work experience spanning over two decades in Healthcare industry with roles in sales, marketing, project management, customer service and logistics. His strengths include innovative & strategic leadership, commitment to talent development and customer partnerships. He joined GE Healthcare in the year 2001 as General Manager, Customer Service. He has championed instituting customer loyalty programs raising the customer service standards and was in charge of maintaining 30000+ critical healthcare equipments spread across the country. Ashok is currently in the role of developing relationship with Government institutions and creating innovative solutions to expand quality healthcare access to a wider population. Ashok spear heads the public private partnership initiative of GE Healthcare in India.

Ashok is an Electronics engineer with MBA in technology management from Deakin University, Australia. He is Green Belt Certified. His interests are reading, music, reiki, dramatics and spirituality.