Darshan Kulkarni, PharmD, MS, Esq.

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Host of the Gavel & Pestle Podcast 

Dr. Kulkarni is the Principal Attorney at the Kulkarni Law Firm. He provides regulatory and legal advice to pharmacies and other FDA regulated entities and their service providers.

He speaks and regularly advises on current legal and compliance related matters including the physician payment sunshine act, clinicaltrials.gov, the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Law and other developments of laws and regulations that affect the life sciences industry and compounding facilities.

He has worked as a pharmacist for more than 14 years in multiple capacities, including hospitals, retail pharmacies, managed care, and has even participated as a clinician in clinical trials.

Dr. Kulkarni has taught at and for a variety of schools including Johns Hopkins University, Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, Drexel University School of Chemical Engineering, Temple Law School etc.

He is currently the Visiting Professor and teaches in both the Biomedical Writing Program and the MBA program at the University of the Sciences where he won the 2014 Outstanding Adjunct Professor award.

Dr. Kulkarni also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Applied Clinical Trials and was voted in the Top 50 of the#Pharma100 for 2012 and 2013. He is regularly quoted in numerous national and international magazines on life sciences-related matters and serves in the American Bar Association in various Interest Groups including the Healthcare Fraud and Compliance section and for the Life Sciences Interest Group.

He has written numerous articles and textbooks including the chapters on drug advertising, the chapter on pharmacy compounding, and the chapter on medical devices for the 2^nd edition and the upcoming 3^rd edition of the American Bar Association’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Law: Regulation of Research, Development, and Marketing and the chapter on the life sciences industry in India in the Principles and Practice of Pharmaceutical Medicine.

You can find Darshan on LinkedIn or contact directly at [email protected].

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