Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
-Henry Ford
Founder & CEO
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Vasumathi Sriganesh, MLIS – CEO
A librarian who has worked in the healthcare sector since 1992 – was the Chief librarian at the Hinduja Hospital and the consumer health library – HELP. She has undergone special training in searching the literature for “Evidence Based Medicine”. In 2013, she won the ‘International Clinical Librarians Conference Evidence into Practice Award’ established in the same year, to honour a practising librarian or informationist who has made outstanding contributions to bringing evidence into practice in the field of healthcare. She is recognized as a faculty of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences – Research Methodology workshops, and as a Specialty speaker by the Maharashtra Medical Council. She is also a member of the Academy of Health Professions Educators. She has been faculty in programs conducted in India by international bodies like FAIMER, MECOR and The Union. She currently also guides authors of systematic reviews, for their literature searches. With her team at QMed, she has successfully launched E-Learning courses on literature searching & referencing and also conducts regular webinars for all registered participants of the courses.
In April 2023, she secured an Educational Grant from Pfizer for QMed, to offer its workshops and ELearning courses to ten AIIMS institutions. In 2024 she won the “Dr SR Ranganathan Lifetime Achievement Award”
Vasu Ma’am as she is fondly called combines her love for medicine, library science, teaching and technology with a radiant smile constantly innovating and improvising in making medical literature searching simple and easy.
The QMed Team
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Fatima Shaikh, MLIS – Head – Technology
Fatima joined us in August 2014. She has a Masters Degree in Library & Information Sciences. She had worked for QMed earlier too and then worked for a library software company and in media libraries, gaining strong IT and web skills.
In just over a month of joining QMed, Fatima’s mind forged ahead to plan for maximizing the impact of our websites. She could do this because she has great domain knowledge of our work and is able to provide us with exactly what we need to carry out our projects online.
In these years she has all by herself created our website – www.qmed.ngo and also our Online Courses site – www.qmedcourses.in.
She is a librarian who soaks technology like a sponge and her face breaks into a smile if she needs to do any kind of technology R&D! -
Dipti Suvarna, B.Sc. – Content Coordinator
Dipti has been with the Foundation since its inception. She has absorbed a huge range of library and information sciences skills in QMed. Systematic, meticulous with an eye for detail, she ensures that our website is kept updated, and has coordinated several things “behind the scenes”. She handles a significant portion of content related activities for the QMedCourses website, both – the course material as well as registration related. Importantly in the recent years she has learnt so much about search strategies and reference management, that she is now able to do a lot for the content and support activities of our courses too.
Administration and Accounts:
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Jayanthi Raghunath, BSc – Accounts and Administrative Officer
Jayanthi has been with QMed since we started it and handles Accounts and Administration activities. She is also a person with a great eye for detail and thanks to her we have so many processes in place.
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Rajendra Nahak – Office Assistant
Rajendra has been with QMed from the beginning. He mainly assists in administrative activities, but is also a self taught computer operator and has done a fair amount of data entry for QMed’s projects. Overall ready to help in any aspect of QMed’s work, Rajendra is a sincere and willing employee.
People who have worked for us earlier:
Girish Kunkur (MLIS) – had worked with the British Council till 2007, when he joined us. He was part of our family till July 2010. He has the credit of helping us with all our setup activities and laid a very strong foundation for our workshops.
Lakshmi Padmanabhan (BMM, MSW) – Lakshmi joined us in 2012, and was with us till 2016. Having had two years of E-learning experience, she laid the foundation for our ELearning activities and was a core trainer for a lot of our workshops.
Parvati Iyer (MLIS) – had worked with our erstwhile Private Limited company since 2005 and served the Foundation in an Honorary capacity till she chose to retire in March 2019. A quiet and most dependable person, she was an excellent teacher and guide. We wish her a happy retired life, full of good health!
QMed offers deserving library science graduates an opportunity of a one year work experience. In the last few years three freshly qualified librarians have worked with us, learning from us, gaining experience and contributing to us. We appreciate their inputs.
Aditi Bhandarkar: 2016-2017
Swapnali Patil: 2017-2018
Nandini Dasgupta: 2018-2019 and 2021-2022
Other individuals who have been part of our team:
Priyanka Gawli: 2023-2024