Dr. Ravi Chander Thatipelli an Associate Professor & Head Department of Pharmacy Practice. He has 16 years of teaching and research experience. He obtained Ph.D degree from JNTU, Anantapur in 2015. He has about 44 research paper publications in UGC, Scopus indexed journals with research paper presentations in about 30 National & International conferences across India and guided 45 Pharm. D students, Authored for 4 books and he has 2 PATENTS. He is involved in teaching and research in the areas of Pharmacology and Pharmacy Practice. He worked as Chairman- Board of studies and Controller of Examinations at Vaagdevi Pharmacy College. He has an Adjunct lecturer for Faculty of Pharmaceutical sciences of UCSI education, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and also involved in various administrative accreditation activities. His research focuses on medicines management at the interface of care, medication reconciliation, and access to medicines. He is a life member of IPA &APP.