Dr. PoojaPharmD

Dr. Pooja didn't set out to write about gut health and hormones. She set out to become a pharmacist — learning how drugs move through the body, why they interact the way they do, and what it actually takes to prove a treatment works. That training is still the lens she writes through today. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, graduating with Distinction, and currently works as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Premier Research. In this role, she manages day-to-day operations on clinical trials for sponsors including Sanofi, Syneos Health, and Lupin Limited. Every study she works on follows ICH-GCP and ALCOA+ standards — the same strict rules that keep clinical data honest enough to get a new medicine approved. That habit carries over into her writing: she checks claims against the research before making them, and she's upfront about what's well-established, what's promising but early, and what's still debated. That same curiosity led her to publish research of her own — including a study on how women with PCOS want to be counseled about their condition, and a case study on the herbal plant Punarnava in chronic kidney disease care. Long before Deeper Than Symptoms existed, she was already asking the root-cause questions this blog is built around. Deeper Than Symptoms is where that research background meets the questions she kept hearing from friends and family: why do my labs look normal when I still feel awful, and what's actually driving this? Pooja writes to answer those questions honestly — without overpromising, and without replacing the care of your own doctor.

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