Swapnil Suresh Raskar, PGDCR, MBA
Swapnil Raskar is a Data Manager for Johns Hopkins Center for Infectious Diseases in India (JH-CIDI) and is based at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site (BJGMC-JHU-CRS) in Pune, India. for TB Studies.
He has 11 years of experience in clinical data management.
He joined BJGMC-CRS in June 2013. Before joining BJGMC-JHU-CRS, he worked with a couple of CROs and has good experience in all phases of data management, like setting up studies on different database platforms, study conduct, and closeout activities.
Mr. Raskar is trained in HSP-GCP and HIPPA guidelines. He is currently looking after all Data Management activities of several TB studies as below.
- Regional, Prospective, Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT India) studies at the site including Tuberculosis Research by the Indo-US Medical Partnership (CTRIUMPh) and its several ongoing biomarker sub studies, the phase 1 and 2 Common protocol
- RICC Pediatric Transcriptomic study
- Genome Wide Analysis Study (GWAS, Emory University)
- Dynamics and immune mechanisms of QFT response in close contacts of TB cases
- Hybrid trial for Alcohol reduction among people with TB and HIV in India (HATHI)
- A Multicenter Phase II/II Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of VPM1002 in the Prevention of Tuberculosis (TB) Recurrence in Pulmonary TB Patients After Successful TB Treatment in India
He is responsible for all data management activities at the site. He coordinates with study staff to develop protocol source documents and checklists, supervises data management staff. He is responsible for conducting staff training, writing data management standard operating procedures, and maintaining logs for screening & enrollment and follow-up visits, and calculating retention for enrolled participants.
He is also responsible for preparing analyzable datasets as per the requirements shared by study Statisticians or PIs/Researchers across partner universities.
Mr. Raskar also attended NIH/NIAID training under TBDM Cohort study at Durham NC.