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Evidence Synthesis | Systematic & Targeted Literature Reviews | Meta-Analysis | Clinical Pharmacy | Epidemiology

Profile Summary

I am an experienced researcher and clinical pharmacist specializing in evidence synthesis, systematic and targeted literature reviews, and meta-analysis. With an advanced foundation in pharmacotherapeutics and clinical pharmacy, I have a strong track record of supporting academic, clinical, and industrial projects in producing high-quality, reliable research outputs. My professional experience includes leading and collaborating on systematic reviews and meta-analyses across a range of therapeutic areas. I am adept at developing robust review protocols, conducting comprehensive literature searches, performing critical appraisals, and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative findings to inform healthcare practice and policy.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Pharmacovigilance/Drug Safety Monitoring
• ★ Medical Writing
• ★ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Meta-Analysis
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Biological Taxonomy/Classification
• ☆ Book Reviews
• ☆ Pharmacy
• ☆ Pharmacy Education
• ☆ Clinical Pharmacy
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Drug-Drug Interactions
• ☆ Clinical Trials
• ☆ IRB Applications
• ☆ Clinical Trial Design
• ☆ Patient Recruitment
• ☆ Diabetes
• ☆ Pulmonology/Respiratory Disease
• ☆ Tuberculosis
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Community Health Services
• ☆ Medical Terminology
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Patient Education Materials
• ☆ Cochrane Reviews
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Scientific Proofreading & Editing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing, Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Text Mining & Analytics, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Senior Research Fellow

Indian Council of Medical Research

August 2022 - July 2024

Research Fellow

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

February 2021 - July 2022

Education

Ph.D.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

February 2021 - Present

Pharm.D

Vignan Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

August 2014 - September 2020

Certifications

• Metagenomics data analysis

  Pine Biotech

  December 2023 - Present

• Certificate course in Bioinformatics

  School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  March 2022 - Present

• Certificate Course in Biostatistics and Research Methodology

  Department of Statistics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  October 2021 - Present

• ICH GCP

  Centre for Bioethics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  May 2021 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Tejaswini Baral, Varun Kumar Sudha Gururaj, Mohan K. Manu, Chandrashekar Udyavara Kudru, Jitendra Singh, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Mahadev Rao, Kavitha Saravu, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2025). Effect of Probiotics Supplementation on Clinical, Humanistic, and Safety Outcomes in Patients With Tuberculosis: A Prospective Cohort Study in a Tertiary Healthcare Facility in South India . Journal of the American Nutrition Association.

Tejaswini Baral, Pravachana Malakapogu, Zuha Shyma, Shilia Jacob Kurian, Ruby Benson, Mohan K. Manu, Debasis Bagchi, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2025). Efficacy of iron replacement in pulmonary hypertension: A systematic review . Nutrition and Health.

Tejaswini Baral, Aieshel Serafin Johnson, Mazhuvancherry Kesavan Unnikrishnan, Mohan K. Manu, Kavitha Saravu, Chandrashekar Udyavara Kudru, Suhaj Abdulsalim, Jitendra Singh, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Mahadev Rao, et al. (2025). Potential role of indole-3-propionic acid in tuberculosis: current perspectives and future prospects . Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets.

Tejaswini Baral, Divya Balan, Mohan K. Manu, Aswini Kumar Mohapatra, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2025). Comparison of Efficacy and Safety of Talc to Povidone-Iodine Pleurodesis in Malignant Pleural Effusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis . Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology.

Tejaswini Baral, Divya Balan, Mohan K. Manu, Aswini Kumar Mohapatra, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2024). Efficacy of probiotics as adjuvant therapy in bronchial asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis . Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology.

Tejaswini Baral, Keerthanaa B, Rashmi Appaji, Levin Thomas, Skanda N, Chaithra, Sonal Sekhar M, Kavitha Saravu, Krishna Undela, Mahadev Rao (2024). Characteristics of isoniazid-induced psychosis: a systematic review of case reports and case series . European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Tejaswini Baral, Sonal Sekhar M, Levin Thomas, Roopa Acharya B, Keerthana Krishnan, Sahana Shetty, Mahadev Rao (2024). Isoniazid-induced pancreatitis: A systematic review . Tuberculosis.

Tejaswini Baral, Shilia Jacob Kurian, Ruby Benson, Murali Munisamy, Kavitha Saravu, Gabriel Sunil Rodrigues, M. Sunil Krishna, Sahana Shetty, Amit Kumar, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2024). Association of vitamin D status and vitamin D receptor polymorphism in diabetic foot ulcer patients: A prospective observational study in a South‐Indian tertiary healthcare facility . International Wound Journal.

Tejaswini Baral, Divya Girishbhai Patel, Shilia Jacob Kurian, Pravachana Malakapogu, Kavitha Saravu, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2024). Nutritional status in patients with tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: A comparative observational study . Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.

Girishbhai Patel, D., Baral, T., Jacob Kurian, S., Malakapogu, P., Saravu, K., Sekhar Miraj, S.(2024). Nutritional status in patients with tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: A comparative observational study . Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. 35.

Tejaswini Baral, Shilia Jacob Kurian, Mazhuvancherry K. Unnikrishnan, Ruby Benson, Murali Munisamy, Kavitha Saravu, Gabriel Sunil Rodrigues, Mahadev Rao, Amit Kumar, Sonal Sekhar Miraj (2023). The association between micronutrient levels and diabetic foot ulcer: A systematic review with meta-analysis . Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Tejaswini Baral, Shilia Jacob Kurian, Levin Thomas, Chandrashekar Udyavara Kudru, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Kavitha Saravu, Mohan K Manu, Jitendra Singh, Murali Munisamy, Amit Kumar, et al. (2023). Impact of tuberculosis disease on human gut microbiota: a systematic review . Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy.

Baral, T., Kurian, S.J., Thomas, L., Udyavara Kudru, C., Mukhopadhyay, C., Saravu, K., Manu, M.K., Singh, J., Munisamy, M., Kumar, A., et al.(2023). Impact of tuberculosis disease on human gut microbiota: a systematic review . Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy. 21. (2). p. 175-188.

Kurian, S.J., Baral, T., Unnikrishnan, M.K., Benson, R., Munisamy, M., Saravu, K., Rodrigues, G.S., Rao, M., Kumar, A., Miraj, S.S.(2023). The association between micronutrient levels and diabetic foot ulcer: A systematic review with meta-analysis . Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14.

Sonal Sekhar Miraj and Navya Vyas and Shilia Jacob Kurian and Tejaswini Baral and Levin Thomas and B Shrikar Reddy and Murali Munisamy and Mithu Banerjee and Mahadev Rao(2022). Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism and vitamin D supplementation on clinical/ treatment outcome in tuberculosis: current and future perspectives . Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy. p. 1--8. Informa {UK} Limited

Sekhar Miraj, S., Vyas, N., Kurian, S.J., Baral, T., Thomas, L., Reddy, B.S., Munisamy, M., Banerjee, M., Rao, M.(2022). Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism and vitamin D supplementation on clinical/ treatment outcome in tuberculosis: current and future perspectives . Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy. 20. (9). p. 1179-1186.

Tejaswini Baral, D. Vijaya Laxmi, Mounika Pedada, Neelima Krishna Veni Ganta, Wasim Feroz (2020). Assessing the Quality of Life in Patients With Polyarthralgia Based on 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol Levels . Journal of Pharmacy Technology.

Baral, T., Laxmi, D.V., Pedada, M., Ganta, N.K.V., Feroz, W.(2020). Assessing the Quality of Life in Patients With Polyarthralgia Based on 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol Levels . Journal of Pharmacy Technology. 36. (6). p. 231-236.

Baral T, Mugada V, Kolakota RK. Death due to rare rhinocerebral mucormycosis infection: a case report. MSP 2019; 13, 4: 40–43.

BOOK CHAPTER

Tejaswini Baral, Shalmy M. Shibu, M. Sonal Sekhar, Shilia Jacob Kurian, Aieshel Serafin Johnson, Kiron S. S., Debasis Bagchi (2024). Nutraceuticals for the prevention of stroke and cerebrovascular injury: An overview . A Review on Diverse Neurological Disorders.

Tejaswini Baral, Nilesh Yadav, Aditi Shah, Roseline George, Sonal Sekhar Miraj(2023). Role of nutrients in combating infection . Viral, Parasitic, Bacterial, and Fungal Infections. p. 815--826. Elsevier

Thomas, L., Baral, T., Miraj, S.S., Varma, M., Shrikar Reddy, B., Munisamy, M., Dolma, K.G., Koirala, P., Bhutia, R.D., Khandelwal, B., et al.(2022). Nutritional status in tuberculosis: A comprehensive problem to be addressed . Viral, Parasitic, Bacterial, and Fungal Infections: Antimicrobial, Host Defense, and Therapeutic Strategies. p. 525-545.

Baral, T., Kurian, S.J., Sekhar M., S., Munisamy, M., Kudru, C.U., Khandelwal, B., Banerjee, M., Mukhopadhyay, C., Saravu, K., Singh, J., et al.(2022). Role of the gut microbiome and probiotics for prevention and management of tuberculosis . Microbiome, Immunity, Digestive Health and Nutrition: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment. p. 361-371.

Kurian, S.J., Baral, T., Sonal Sekhar, M., Rao, M.(2021). Role of probiotics and prebiotics in digestion, metabolism, and immunity . Nutrition and Functional Foods in Boosting Digestion, Metabolism and Immune Health. p. 501-522.