Dinesh Chindarkar

Specialties: Integrated marketing & communications incl Digital & Health PR, Tech & Social applications in Pharma & Healthcare, Strategic Planning, Brand Communication. With a Pharmacy & Marketing education, Dinesh moved from Pharma Marketing & advertising profile to co-found MediaMedic Communications. Over the past 20 years, he has developed expertise for integrated communication for Health Brands for Pharma, OTC & Healthcare. As a part of GHMC (Global Health & Marketing Communication) group, he has worked on health brands in the UK, Australia & USA. He explores new age medias, digital tools & tech for enhanced integrated healthcare communication & marketing solutions. He has authored various articles on New media & Digital marketing in various publications and his firm has pioneered usage of Digital marketing for Pharma , for which MediaMedic earned various awards & recognition. Dinesh also co-founded the healthcare hashtag #hcsmin (healthcare social media) for India. A prolific speaker, he has spoken on platforms like DIA India, Health 2.0 conference, Social Media Week, IDMA Seminar, BrandDrift, Commercial Effectiveness 2012, KAM, Patient 1st, Global Social Marketing etc. He is also the Health 2.0 Mumbai Chapter leader. Dinesh is also on the Editorial Board of PharmaPhorum and was a part of the International Healthcare Social Media Summit (IHSMS) held in Washington DC. He is currently developing varied multichannel marketing avenues for integrating Phy-gital initiatives. Dinesh is also instrumental in organising the only Digital Pharma & Healthcare marketing conference in India 'DigiSights India' which will run in its 4th annual edition. His thoughts & work has been featured on various platforms including ET, Barcroft, TOI, YourStory, CNN-IBN. His team has won various awards including RxClub, Fulcrum, Sabre, DigiPharmaX, CMO Asia, Advertising Club etc He is passionate about rare diseases & actively promotes the cause of Progeria with #Finding60inIndia for the Progeria Research Foundation, USA.