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January, 2018 | Issue 07ACADEMY TIMES Newsletter | Meril AcademyNext leap towards greatness... www.merillife.com

Foreward...“Innovation distinguishes betweena leader and a follower” Yoginder Sahni Head - Professional Education, Meril Academy W ith the 7th edition of Academy Times - We have come a long way organizing  academic activities eg.CME events, hands-on workshops and experiential eld force trainings. Creating true health care leaders with creativity, innovations and best of educational exposures, we are constantly working to bring the change in health care professions. Our goal was to connect with more than 6000 Healthcare professionals till 2017, which we have exceeded, with your support and with our joint efforts to improve our services for connecting and delighting healthcare professionals who visited us at academy for various academic activities. Our educational portal, E-Pathshala, Good To Great, Impact, ENT conclave, CIT peripherals, GCSRA, The success cue, and all our training programs along with eld force training and training for manufacturing staff has immensely beneted to embrace their knowledge on products and procedures while we are connected to continuously improve our services. This was aimed at achieving the well-being of patients, making the services better, skill enhancement, brining in better quality and cost efciency amongst all health care professionals. We  remain fully committed in maintaining high standard for all ethical practices at Academy. Our educational support to  medical  teaching institutions  across India, to improve/enhance the surgical skills of the young aspiring surgeons for restoring joys of many patients. The Centre of Excellence (Skill Centre) has been one of the pioneer initiatives from Meril Academy which we have driven across India to scale up the basic knotting & suturing and Laparoscopic skills for better surgical outcome It has been installed in more than 100 institution which has been appreciated by medical fraternity. Meril Academy, who has been providing extended hospitality and having world class amenities and infrastructure, has now become the star attraction and preferred venue for leading conferences and academic events. At last a big Thank You to all business heads and stake holders for their guidance and support to make each activity more meaningful which lead to transform better patient care. 02

CONTENTFor internal circulation only04 7th Masters’ Course 15 Centre of Excellence (COE)06 Complex Interventional Technique - 9 16 MMEP 5, MeCAP 12, IMPACT08 ENT Conclave 2017 Learning & Development Workshop 18 MEP Diagnostics 201710 197th Supply Chain Management Workshop Advance Peripheral Techniques11 VAPI CSR Conclave, 2017 20 Academy Outside Academy (AOA)12 Good to Great (SFE Program) 22 Experts speak13 The Success Cue 25 Leaders speak14 Supply Chain Meet 03

ACADEMY TIMES“Wonder implies the desire to learn” 7th Masters’ Course Live transmision from OT Dr. Khalid Naaman delivering session on Varus in TKR - correcting the bowed onesRaising the bar through spreading education, Meril had organised 7th Masters’ course on 3rd – 5thNovember, 2017. The course was a perfect blend of live cases and didactic sessions by the moderators andeminent faculty. A special talk on Freedom Knee was given by Dr.Asit Shah through live session fromEnglewood Medical Centre, New Jersey, USA. The knowledge sharing and experience of the coursedirectors amongst the delegates made an interacting environment.Dr. Dimple Parekh shared keynote on “Robotics – Revolution in TKR” which was an innovative way oftreating the deformity.Vapi Valsad Orthopaedic Forum (VVOF) extended their support to Meril Academy by providing CMEaccreditation. 04

ACADEMY TIMES Hands-on session on Saw boneDr. Khaled Abdulrahman evaluating Panel discussion Mr. Manish Deshmukh presenting token TKR instruments of appreciation to the faculty Dr. Dimple Parekh chairing the session 05

ACADEMY TIMES“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation”Complex Interventional Technique - 9 Dr. Tigran Akobyan, Dr. M. Sampath Kumar, Dr. Deiti Prvulovic and Dr. Marc Silvestri moderating sessions on Complex PCI in everyday practiceLamp lighting ceremony Sharing of case complexitiesKeeping the traditions alive, The 9th Chapter of Complex Interventional Techniques was organised on4th - 6th December, 2017 wherein delegates from over 20 countries had participated.Eminent surgeons, Dr. Ramesh Daggubati (USA), Dr. Manish Parekh (USA), Dr. Vimal Someshwar (India)and Dr. Ravinder Singh Rao (India) were Board of faculty. Dr. Upendra Kaul discussed about various tipsand tricks for treating long diffused lesions with extra long SES. 06

ACADEMY TIMESLatest cardiac interventional techniques from Meril, live casesand complex presentations were discussed during these 3days of scientic sessions.The course was accredited by Gujarat MedicalCouncil under the banner of Daman MedicalAssociation (DMA). Delegates at Club HouseDr. Manish Parikh moderating the sessions 07

ACADEMY TIMES “Great things never came from comfort zones” ENT Conclave 2017Lamp lighting by Mr. Tushar Mehta Dr. Howard Levine interacting with the delegates Dr. Saumitra ShahOpening up to a novel device for cure from Sinusitis, Meril launched ENT Conclave on 11th – 12th October,2017 at Meril Academy. Prof. Dr. Howard Levine (Cleveland, USA) was our guest of honour and Internationalfaculty. He had shared his years of experience in Balloon Sinuplasty and had a very interactive sessionintended to resolve maximum queries.The workshop was attended by more than 70 surgeons across India.Two day workshop was conscientiously designed for the surgeons to benet in minimally invasive, minimalblood loss, safe, long term effectiveness, faster recovery time and preserving natural anatomy for futuretreatment options in Balloon Sinuplasty. 08

ACADEMY TIMESThe workshop was pervade with Live broadcast of Dr. Shalabh Sharma addressing audiencethe Balloon Sinuplasty operated by Dr. ShalabhSharma (Shrushti Hospital, Surat) and Dr. ShalabSharma (Sri Gangaram Hospital, Delhi) to spread alearning about how one should deal withcomplications. Dr. Howard Levine sharing his experience of Balloon Sinuplasty procedureMr. Chirag Patel brieng about Meril products Balloon sinuplasty is a procedure that ear, nose and throat surgeons may use for the treatment of blocked sinuses 09

ACADEMY TIMES“Training is only effective if it promotes learning”7th Supply Chain Management Workshop Mr. Jigneshbhai Ghelat talking about Power of MeditationMr. Krishnan V presenting souvenir to the Dr. Pravin Shingare Activity on Suply chain operationWorking towards enriching the life of our stake holders, Meril Academy organised 7th Supply ChainManagement workshop on 13th – 15th October, 2017 by partnering with IIM - Calcutta.Prof. Prashant Misra and Prof. Sumanta Basu focused on enabling participants to explore and practicemethods of supply chain through various sessions and business simulation activities.Mr. Milind Inamdar (VP - Narayana Hrudayalaya) and Dr. Pravin Shingare (Director - DMER) shared their expertiseand experience amongst the participants.7th Supply Chain Management Workshop was attended by 47 participants across India. Discussion on Negotiation Skills with the IIM faculty10

ACADEMY TIMES“Charity sees the need not the cause”VAPI CSR Conclave, 2017GCSRA (Gujarat CSR Authority) organized Vapi CSR Conclave on21st November, 2017 at Meril Academy, Vapi with an aim to present thekey ndings of needs and capacity assessment at Vapi cluster.This contextual and bottom up conclave also addressed the socialgaps by providing a forum to discuss and debate on the issuespertaining to the CSR planning and implementation.Mr. Biplav Chatterjee (Associate Director - CSR Advisory) presentedon “key ndings of needs and capacity assessment”.Mrs. Sandra Shroff , Guest Speaker Dignitaries chairing the sessionThe participants were oriented towards Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. A panel of experts sharedtheir knowledge on vivid areas of CSR such as policy development, strategy articulation and performancemeasurement & disclosure(s).Mr. Rishi Pathania (Head-CSR, UPL Ltd.) gave a talk on measuring the outcome and impact creation atregional level, through dissemination of state and national level experiences of the CSR Projects.A major highlight was dedicated time and space for networking opportunities with 50+ delegates - industryleaders, policy makers, government agencies, NGOs, civil society, academics etc. Mr. Amit Mehta introducing guest to Meril products 11

ACADEMY TIMES“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”Good to Great Star Performer appreciationMr. Hemchandra Panjikar and Dr. Minocha introducing the Star Performer appreciation concept of Good to GreatGood to Great (Sales Force Excellence Program) for Gujarat Sales Team – 14th November 2017A Company is GOOD in the First Stage, has all chances to become A GREAT COMPANY in the nextstage………..and that Stage is Calling us!Commencement of this Program was done by renowned consciousness coach Mr. Manoj Lekhi withEndo-surgery Vertical (Gujarat). This session helped in aligning the VISION, ASPIRATIONS AND GOALSETTING of individual sales representative with organisation’s goal.Mr. Hemchandra Panjikar guided on how to achieve great from good using 5 star key account detailsmodel, identifying the potential of customer and convert it into the successful sales. Manoj Lekhji talking about consciousness.12

ACADEMY TIMES“Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens”The Success Cue Mr. Manoj LekhiOn 15th November, 2017, Meril had organised a workshop on Success Cue, program for senior manageriallevel employees at Academy. The main attraction of this workshop was Mr. Manoj Lekhi (Prime Directive ofthe organization, Rishi Sanskruti Vidya Kendra) .The aim of the workshop was to help people understand and apply Success Cue as a Vision, Belief,Organising & Planning, Time Management and Money on a day to day level in their activities. It was a blendof contemporary western thoughts and traditional Indian wisdom. It was an interesting session whichhelped bring inner transformation, self enhancement and ultimately lled in positivity within the participants. “Nothing happens unless we have a VISION! A VISION without ACTION is USELESS! ACTION without CONTENTMENT is DANGEROUS!” -By Manoj J Lekhi.Session on Budget working 13

ACADEMY TIMES“Wisdom is knowing what to do next”Endo-Surgery and Life Sciences Mr. Vitus Joseph sharing best practices on inventory managementA 2-day supply chain meet was held at Meril Academy on 10th - 11th November, 2017 for the supply Chainemployees of Meril Endo-Surgery and Meril Life Sciences from all over India. The event kicked off with anopening note by Mr. Dhaval Pancholi and Mr. Vitus Joseph. The main objective of the meet was tostandardize the process across all the warehouses and follow the best practices of inventory managementespecially to emphasize more focus for the proactive approach to eliminate consignment stock write-offs.Apart from Supply Chain, representatives from Human Resources, Safety, Finance and Taxation impartedthe training to the delegates.

ACADEMY TIMES“The best way of learning about anything is by doing”Centre of Excellence (COE) COE Inauguration, GMC, NagpurShri Girish Dattatray Mahajan Dr. Raj Gajbhiye at Centre of Excellence addressing the audienceMeril Centre of Excellence at Govt. Medical College, Nagpur was inaugurated by Shri Girish DattatrayMahajan- Indian Politician (Minister - Water Resources and Irrigation, Medical Education, Guardian Minister(Nashik) Jamner, Maharashtra.) Dr. Raj Gajbhiye Prof. & Head, Dept. of Surgery, Govt Medical College, Nagpur “As an Indian Company, Meril manufactures good quality products. Meril believes in Academic trainings for upcoming doctors and also for Hospital Management Team. Meril Studio which is set up in GMC, Nagpur will help the upcoming doctors to improve and learn laparoscopic skills.We have planned toengage the Centre of Excellence by starting the fellowship training program on rectal models andOpen stapler training”

ACADEMY TIMESMeril Managerial EffectivenessMMEP at Banglore Ofce Mr. Yoginder Sahni conducting an effective role playWith MMEP 5, we continued our focus to align and inspire our managerial team to build sustainablebusinesses, territories and people by leading with example and exhibiting Meril ManagementCompetencies in all tasks they perform. We further upgraded MMEPs with newer topics like “TechnicalSession on PowerPoint Presentation, Distributor Session (Guest Faculty) on nancial aspects of Sales,Business development, ROI, ROCE, Inventory turns etc. and Role Plays of Leaders.Meril Corporate Awareness ProgramInteractive session with the attendees Dr. Patolia Felicitation by BMI BMR BMD LMB Camp Mr. Yoginder SahniContinuing our Corporate Awareness Training, MeCAP 12 encouraged 123 corporate employees to come,gather, learn & brainstorm with “World Class Lap Bariatric Surgeon Dr. Sanjay Patolia from Asian Bariatric,Ahmedabad” on World Obesity Day @ 11th October .Total 113 Merilians undergone Body CompositionAnalysis and Counselling by Dietician on 18 Vital Metabolic Parameters. 16

ACADEMY TIMES“If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you”Learning & DevelopmentTo collaborate and synergize Meril Sales Teams at major HQs, we continued our focus to build SellingCompetencies at Regional level by reinforcing learning topics like.Ÿ MAT description for personal and individual understanding to improve sales by using own strengths Ÿ Mind Map Training for Sales Planning, Lead Generation and Customer Handling Ÿ Sales Improvement Strategies by SFE Analysis & Business ImprovementAdvance Cardiovascular &These programs are initiated for the niche teams like REGULATORY AFFAIRS who work on Medical deviceand pharmaceutical legislative requirements. The objective is to help them absorb advance anatomicalconcepts, disease progression and clinical aspects to keep aligned with emerging medical innovations,newer treatment modalities and patient centric approach.Dedicated hands-on session was arranged with the help of Subroto Belel, for the team to get the experienceof Cath Labs in Academy, to improve the practical aspect for medical device testing and quality approval.IMPACT ACP Tutorials 17

ACADEMY TIMES“The expert in anything was once a beginner”MEP Diagnostics 2017 Team activity Online Quiz post trainingMeril Education program for Critical Diagnostics division was successfully conducted at Meril Academywherein 28 Merilians were trained on technical aspects of complete product range of Critical Diagnosticstheoretically in October 2017. Hands-on training for different Rapid kits as well as ELISA were given byMr. Paparaidu Sanapala - Application Head (CD) along with Mr. Ketan Patel - Marketing Head (CD) and alsocovered Marketing strategies and Product positioning sessions by Mr. J V Gopinath - Sales Head (CD)during the training period.Various professional training sessions and team activities were conducted by Mr. Vivek Sharma and histeam during the training period.The Performance of each and every individual was evaluated and the Top 3 Performers were recognized.18

ACADEMY TIMESAdvance Peripheral Dr. Mathew Cherian sharing his experience with delegates Dr. Kothekar inaugurating the event by lighting the lampAdvance Peripheral Techniques (APT) was conducted at Meril Academy from 15th - 17th December, 2017.Conference was organized in collaboration with ISVIR and their complications meet.96% of the program agenda was discussed by respective faculty.The presentations made in this meeting specically were very challenging and opened up with complicated case proles.As mentioned by Dr. George Koshy, APT (Advance Peripheral Techniques) midterm 2017 gave a platform towards newlearning even in smaller cases such as aneurisms , patient prole handling , rethinking about the case several times,understanding patient request and analyze them accordingly , coping up with our earlier mistakes and nally reworkingtogether with our peers for better solutions in treatment.The customers had the belief in our products as they experienced themselves by visiting our manufacturing units.Created a good ideology of our Meril peripheral vascular products in their respected hospitals with their team by initiatingdiscussions specically stressed up with PERIPHERAL expansion in the present market from territories like Hyderabad, Delhi,Mumbai and Nagpur.Peripheral launch news from Meril BUZZ is well notied mouth to mouth which In turn enhanced in our territories individually.Every customer is been memorised by name Meril and very much rejoiced.APT (Advance Peripheral Techniques) complication midterm meet 2017 was a great success.Q & A session Best case presentation was felicitated with a memento 19

ACADEMY TIMES“Don’t give to get, give to inspire others to give”Academy Outside Academy (AOA) Knotting & Suturing Workshop - D Y Patil Hospital, Navi MumbaiWorkshop on Knotting & Suturing Techniques was organised at D Y Patil Hospital, Navi Mumbai on 25thNovember, 2017 by Meril Endo-surgery.The workshop was attended by 45 residents and interns from thehospital.The faculty for the program was Dr. Ajay Gujar, HOD, Dept. of Surgery in D Y Patil Hospital. He took a session onneedle & suture material, knotting & suturing techniques followed by hands-on suturing techniques.It was a successful event as the session was highly interactive and the students had a good learning experienceon knotting and suturing techniques. Suturing championship organized at 3D Endo & Uro Gynec Workshop at AgraMeril had organized Suturing & Knotting championship at Gynec Conference at Agra on 23rd - 24thDecember, 2017. Approx 30 gynec surgeons had participated in the activityThe competition was heldbetween junior and senior category of medical students.The winner of Junior category was Dr. Rupali Khurana and Dr. Surendra Pathak was the winner in Seniorcategory. 20

ACADEMY TIMES Suture Workshop at the Neurological Conference, King's College LondonMeril Academy supportingacademic activities globally..Meril Endo-Surgery Division conducted a Suture Workshop at The NeuroSurgical Conference of King’sCollege Hospital Neuro Surgery Society, London.About 100 students attended the workshop.Team Meril was immensely pleased to cater to First Generation Meril Surgeons. These students had nevertouched any other sutures before and would be starting their surgical career with Meril Sutures. 21

ACADEMY TIMESExperts speak“I am Prof. Howard, I am an ENT surgeon from USA andI’m very much honoured to spend 2 days here at Meriland Meril Academy. The reason for my being here isto conduct a 2-day conclave of sinus surgeons who camefrom India and to teach them about Balloon Sinuplasty, anew technology from Meril. The meeting itself was a wonderfulgathering of individuals. These were mostly physicians who hadexperience of sinuplasty, for some they do few cases and other they have done many. What Ithink was very valuable, was to be able to have physicians in a group to interact with each other, so itwasn’t just a bunch of lectures, but it was a physicians who were able to talk about their experiencesand ask questions related to their practices and to give input into all of this. The live cases arealways wonderful. There was one case which was very difcult. The other case had a very smallcomplication and i think it is good to have a small event so the physicians can learn how to managethat. We had a very rich and wonderful discussion about how to deal with the sudden situation andthe input doesn’t come from me as a physician as much as the attendees recognise that there wasa problem and then were able to give their thoughts and idea about how to deal with this. Overall Ihave to say the ability to have a few lectures and learn about physicians experience not just minefrom United States but those experiences from physicians in India is very important. Live surgery isalways very difcult for surgeon who is doing it, who is doing it in front of large number of people.If i had to say what I wish we could have done that was to have more time, but there is never enoughtime. Having more time, would have permitted more exchange of ideas between the physicians, toraise more questions, to hear more comments from physicians in India. I wish they would havedone that but the difculty is for Physician to travel and its very hard to give time from their home andpractise.All the physicians were visiting Meril Academy campus for the rst time and for me it was aextremely pleasant surprise. I had no idea what I would see, what I would nd, but to see the beautyof the campus, to see the work environment for all the people at Meril, that was so beautiful,relaxing, comfortable, permitting them to achieve a very high level. Seeing the Meril Campus,entering R & D and manufacturing for me and every physicians who has never been here had anopportunity to see and learn about creativity and innovation.To see what the academy is, a separate free standing educational facility, that architecturally isbeautiful and has all of the things needed for education was a very important part. What Merilstands for and what their mission is, to me speaks to the fact that this isn’t a company just aboutselling devices but it is about trying to get position to learn and learn in the best way, make this safefor every one of their patient. Overall it was the absolute wonderful surprise for me to come andbeing part of this event, to have been engaged with the sessions and certainly I will be here for manymore such events.” Prof. Dr. Howard L. Levine Director - Cleveland Nasal-Sinus & Sleep Centre, USA

ACADEMY TIMES“It’s been a marvelous experience coming “Coming to Vapi and visiting Meril was andown to Academy. It’s an impressive astonishing experience. I have had anapproach of Meril, investing lots of force opportunity to attain most of the scienticnot only for product development but also sessions as well as giving my own talk. Ifor training medical & paramedical staff. have learnt a lot with regards to theThe program was very comprehensive, technique and there were livewith attendance from all over the world. demonstrations which were put on veryLearning from peoples’ experiences and excellent fashion. The question answerhearing about the differences in practice in session was beautiful. We had andifferent territories depending upon the opportunity to visit the manufacturing sitefacilities available and different healthcare which was again a great experience. I didstructures was an amazing experience.” not know how exactly this things happen and how do they manufacture knees. The Dr. Nicholas David Palmer staff of the Meril has been so good that you really feel homely. I don’t mind coming Interventional Cardiologist, UK again here to learn subject academically as well as enjoy this hospitality.” Dr. Manzoor Qazi Orthopaedic Surgeon, Saudi Arabia “This is my 2nd visit to Meril Academy and the course organised by them i.e. Continuing Medical Education (CME) for highlighting the research of Indian and International surgeons is a very enlightening experience and its truly amazing. I found the overall facility, auditorium infrastructure, and ambience as per international standards. The participation of delegates from different parts of India as well as visiting international delegates was active and got engaged in the program. Moreover the scientic programs which have been out touch all the aspects of joint replacement surgery of both knee and hip. Be it the recent research, experience of visiting faculty, the choice of the faculty , everything was very eminent and also important part of this academic feast. Most of the faculty had experience of 15-20 years andl i s t ening to them, the presentations were very lucid and scientic. This initiative by Meril Life Sciences tobring delegates from different parts of the world under one roof and also bringing academicians and bring people who arepioneer in their eld in different part of the world to come under one roof and share knowledge is an excellent approach incarrying this medical education forward.” Dr. Atul Misra Director and Head – Orthopaedics, Fortis Hospital, Noida

ACADEMY TIMES “ Besides impressive facility, the debates were really teachingful which was an essential part of the conference. I really liked the way Meril has organized the Conference as the environment was very interactive and the young crowd could ask their questions without any hesitations. Good speakers of the level of TCT/ PCR and live cases made the course almost perfect. It was for the rst time that we visited any company’s manufacturing facility, and was so clean. We had a precise explanation of each and every step of the manufacturing protocols followed.” Dr. Marc Silvestri Interventional Cardiologist, France “The experience has been extremely fabulous and found the facilities really very good, especially the audio-visuals and the hospitality provided to us. I could see that there is a lot of training that goes on in Meril Academy for Endoscopic surgery and Orthopedic Surgery through Live cases. So,would like to make a suggestion that you should have an Endovascular procedure simulator for training the people who will use your endovascular devices and lastly was that we are very happy to have been here; it’s been an enjoyable experience and would like to place on record my appreciation for all that have been done by Meril to foster training and learning amongst the people who take care of patients.” Surg. Capt. Dr. Rochan Pant Vice-President, Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Mumbai “It was a real privilege coming to Meril Academy. Highly enjoyed the academic sessions. Really amazed that how Meril has developed all these and how beautifully they are providing overall facilities at this centre .The manufacturing unit and other academic activities these days were really wonderful. I wish them a very good luck for their production as well as would like to send them best wishes for the upcoming future in this industry.” Dr. Arun Gupta Vice-President, Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Delhi“I was very much involved in the organisation of Complication Meet 2017. The experience wasjust excellent, the venue was just superb. Everything was perfectly organised from tea tofood. The Academy is just very nice. The audio visual facility and the auditorium is too good.We had great time playing cricket at playground which was something very different ascompared to other conferences. We had a best meeting till date in ISVR and thanks to Meriland its staff for helping into every small aspect of the organisation. The facility here at Merilwas excellent. The good thing that happened was that the delegates got chance to visit thefacility and actually know how stents are manufactured. I am sure this knowledge andexperience will be lifelong for them. This Academy is one of the best training institute in the world.” Dr. Vimal Someshwar Consultant & Head – Interventional Radiology, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai24

ACADEMY TIMESLeaders speak Sanket Shah National Sales Manager - Peripheral Vascular division It gives me immense pleasure to announce that our scientic journey in Peripheral Vascular Interventions has nally begun…And what a start this has been!!! Collaborating with ISVIR’s Complications meet, we embark our journey in training and education with A.P.T (Advance Peripheral Techniques). The delegates were immensely impressed by the facility which Meril has created for the community and appreciated the efforts put by Meril to setup such an infrastructure which is second to none. Big spacious and comfortable auditorium, the AV quality, the cafeteria arrangements, etc were simply up to the mark. The delegates were thoroughly delighted to see the international standards being followed and maintained at all the facilities. Though this is just a beginning of an era for us in Peripheral, I can already see Meril becoming one of the frontrunners in this space very soon.This facility has certainly helped us to make a big impact and set up a brand image for Meril in Peripheral segment.I along with my team shall strive to conduct series of such events (APT) on a quarterly basis. Also look forward tohost one of the annual meetings of VSI (Vascular Society of India) in coming future. Sincere thanks to all my colleagues, at Meril, who contributed towards making this event a successful and amemorable one. Aravind H.L. Business Manager - Meril-ENT In an ever changing and fast paced healthcare world, training and development is a Most crucial & continuous process. Good training leads to good processes and more efcient work culture. Meril Academy is playing a vital role in the global healthcare industry through its continuous professional education & training programs like CME, Hands-on, clinical updates, live surgeries and best practice programs, OR protocols to internal & healthcare professional across the globe. My most awaited and rst scientic event “SINUS CONCLAVE” was held on 11th & 12th of Oct 2017 in Meril Academy and participated by more than 82 surgeons across the country & Brazil was a huge successful program. Event included 2 live surgeries,hands on demo with head model and showcase of new products of Meril ENT & my all surgeons were extremelyhappy for the kind of experience they have received with Meril Academy’s quality & international standard ofinfrastructure and hospitality by Merilians.After the SINUS CONCLAVE’s great success I personally feel & see the change in perception of my external stakeholders about Meril, and Meril products!!! And also I have witnessed with many new surgeons adapting ourBalloon sinus procedure in their practise.The great commitment, passion of Meril Academy team & amazing efforts helped me & my team to build greatprofessional relation with my surgeons across the country which is resulting in building Meril ENT.Meril’s mission of “More to Life” signies its commitment to bring together wellKnown surgeons in India and international, resulting in successfully taking professional educations to next level!!!My sincere appreciation to the entire team, for their passion, dedication and commitment towards building “MERIL“across the globe!!! 25

ACADEMY TIMES Shashikant Kalshetty Sr. Area Manager - International Sales The mantra of our Meril is ‘LEARN, UNLEARN AND RELEARN’ which means we need to be innovative, we need to transform ourselves to become more agile and open to challenges, we need to fail wisely and network extensively. Life at Meril for me is of full of rewards and recognitions. I was being rewarded and recognized at regular interval during these years. Working at Meril is about making work fun, having a good work life balance, as well as good synergy between work culture and productivity. As medical science has progressed, it has been harder for us and doctors to keep currentwith everything they need to know in all areas of care. Meril Academy had really helped to both Merilian and doctorsand added value to their clinical practice with integrated training programs which cover all-round development ofknowledge, technical skills, soft skills and behavioural pattern across all areas of professional practice. It is a blend ofessential formal and informal learning activities. Meril Academy had designed training programs which added value-addition to me and enhance the skill level /domain area to be at best with the patients and technology dynamics enabling me to maintain the professionalstandards required to be the best in my career. Meril Academy had helped me to work more effectively within multi-professional team and develop leadership andmanagement skills through our modular training courses. With the state-of-the-art Learning Management Systems or LMS, it helped me in getting rid of bulky training materialand time consuming lecture sessions. Programs and courses at Meril academy are as per the need of organisation oran individual.Meril Academy has given a global platform to gain knowledge through collaborative learning for all my customerswhich had helped me to bond my relation .Doctors have appreciated Master course for ortho and CIT for cardio asaccording to them they get an opportunity to interact with top KOL more closely on a specic topic as compared toother international forum.I completed 10 year with my Meril family and I feel there is still lot to explore and learn. The journey still continues... Rajesh Pandey Zonal Head - North and East, Orthopedic division Meril Academy is a state of the art facility with a great competent team to support learning programmes. The content and design of the programme has helped the surgeons to transform their patient care and surgical procedure to the next level. Meril academy has evolved a great concept which has benetted the entire Stake holder involved in the Health care profession. Young and budding surgeons perceive Meril academy as a great place for learning which has resulted in deep relationship with our customers. Academybrings surgeons from different thought process into one platform which brings diversity in learning,adaptability and approach. 26

ACADEMY TIMES Ketan Patel Marketing Head – Critical Diagnostics Meril rmly believes that comprehensive knowledge with reference to products and the technology behind it is the only means to success. Numbers of organizations are coming up with various medical devices in the industry, but very few demonstrate themselves as a knowledge driven company. Meril as a Medical device organization has provided a massive and prolic platform to all the Merilians to share the knowledge among themselves and also amongst the customers of health care industry by establishing a pioneering, exemplary, State of the Art Meril Academy with all ultra modern facilities.The employees love to gain knowledge contentedly through various classroom sessions conducted by therespective verticals in spacious and well equipped classrooms at Meril Academy.The various professional courses conducted by Meril Academy team like, Professional Business Etiquettes,Team Player Effectiveness gives a value addition to Meril Education. The innovative ideas for evaluating theperformance of a trainee through online tests during the sessions or post sessions help the faculty to nd outthe areas of improvement to be implemented.As an Add On the various e-learning courses through IMPACT helps individuals to remain updated with newemerging technologies and innovations.Well maintained and highly equipped that showcases the complete range of Meril Product portfolio of eachvertical as another Feather to the cap of Meril.My sincere and heartfelt thanks to entire Meril Academy team for their continuous tireless efforts for makingeach and every event successful and memorable Gayathri Sumesh Nair Sr. Manager – RA Despite global political uncertainties, uneven sluggish economic outlook and challenging regulatory systems, medical device industries are continuously nding new opportunities for development. Because of remarkable advancements in science and technology, including those in the health care industry, life expectancy is steadily increasing. Aging population worldwide coupled with their extended life expectancy demands healthcare innovations with consistent quality. Innovations and quality are assured only in hands of an informed, disciplined and trained team. Hence, professional education and refresher courses play a vital role insuccess of such industries. At Meril, Meril academy team ensures that the team that make and the team thatuse the medical devices are well informed and trained.I witness that the continuous training programs conducted in Meril academy, improve efciency of theemployees, it reenergize the team and builds condence and credibility in the work they do. Its’ rightly saidby someone that “training is an investment in the future of your business”.Congratulations to the Academy team for playing a crucial role in the growth of Meril by educating thehealthcare professionals and Meril employees!!I wish the team continued success in this endeavor!! 27

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