Department started in the year 1963 with first HOD Prof. Allimuddin Ahmed and Assistant Prof. Dr. D. P. Phukan.

The department is housed at 3rd floor of the Narakasur Hilltop Building of Gauhati Medical College.

The objective of the department is to impart undergraduate and postgraduate level training. In addition it also impart teaching to undergraduates of BDS, BSc Nursing, Paramedicals

INFRASTRUCTURE

1. There are 6 (six) numbers of student laboratories, out of which 2 are Biotechnology laboratories, 2 are pharmacology laboratories, 1 Neuropharmacology labaoratory and 1 Phd research laboratory.
2. There is a museum consisting of separate parts, depicting the history of medicine, locally available various traditional medicines of various plant sources, poisons, charts and photographs, etc
3. Department has a library facility having textbooks and reference books, mainly related to the subjects of Pharmacology and Pharmaceuticals.
4. It has 2 demonstration rooms having capacity for 50-60 students and is equipped with modern teaching audiovisual aids.
5. The institute has a central animal house facility managed by the department of pharmacology with rodents and non rodents being housed for academic purposes.

Faculties

Sl. No.	Designation	Name	Qualification	Reg. No	Photo
1	Professor and HOD	Dr Swopna Phukan	MD	13115
2	Professor	Dr. Diptimayee Devi	MD	11065
3	Associate Professor	Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta	MD	17753
4	Associate Professor	Dr Dwipen khanikar	MD	15513
5	Assistant Professor	Dr Kamal Ojah	MD	17874
6	Assistant Professor	Dr Mukundam Borah	MD	18293
7	Assistant Professor	Dr Atifa Ahmed	MD	20047
8	Assistant Professor	Dr Pran Pratim Saikia	MD	18515
9	Demonstrator	Dr Ripunjoy Sarmah	MD	20748
10	Demonstrator	Dr Siddhartha Shankar Patowary	MD	20514
11	Demonstrator	Dr Anindita Bhattacharya	MBBS	15632
12	Demonstrator	Dr Deepjyoti Bharali	MD	22644
13	Demonstrator	Dr Dipsikha Das	MD	23350

Courses

• Annual intake of 3 candidates.
• Year of starting PG Course: 1972 with two seats

PG Students

Services

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

1. The department is presently imparting training to the Post Graduate students in pharmacology with an annual intake of 3 candidates. The Post Graduate course was started in the year 1972 with two seats.
2. Pharmacology Department also imparts training to the Masters and PhD students of NIPER Guwahati.
3. The department holds seminars and journal clubs every week.

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES

In Pharmacology department of GMCH, ADR Monitoring centre was established in June 2010 under Pharmacovigilance Programme of India. The ADRs are collected from various departments of GMCH and reported to Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, National Coordination Centre by a trained technical associate via net based software Vigiflow.

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