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December 22, 2020
On December 22, 2020, Gulf Medical University signed an MOU with UAE National Anti-Doping Committee. Experts from the UAE National Anti-Doping Committee are already teaching in ‘Drugs in Sport’ course of the PharmD program. The collaborative agreement is expected to provide students with opportunities to have hands-on training...
December 19, 2020
Education of healthcare professionals is an important role of clinical pharmacy department at Thumbay University Hospital (TUH) in addition to direct patient care and medication safety practices. On December 19, 2020, Dr. Jumana Al-Salloum, Pharm.D, Clinical Preceptor at College of Pharmacy, GMU & licensed Clinical Pharmacist at...
December 19, 2020
GMU College of Pharmacy Master in Clinical Pharmacy student, Naira Hany Helmy Sayed published her masters research on December 19, 2020, titled as “Pharmacist-led heart failure patient focus group using mobile apps-based intervention mix”. [link] Naira completed this research project under the supervision of Dr. Seeba Zachariah and Dr....
December 16, 2020
On Dec 16, 2020, Pharmacy undergraduate PharmD students published a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in Journal of Pharmacy & BioAllied Sciences, indexed in SCOPUS (cite score 1.08), PubMed and other databases. The students’ conducted this research under the supervision of Dr. Syed Wasif Gillani. This article is focused...
December 16, 2020
On November 7, 2020, the College of Pharmacy at Gulf Medical University started offering the Board of Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BPS) Pharmacotherapy Specialist examination preparatory course. The first cohort is pharmacists working in the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) in the United Arab Emirates. Selected Pharmacists from...
December 16, 2020
From December 7 – 16, 2020, a group of UAE National Anti-Doping Committee experts (Dr. Faisal Haji, Dr. Ahmed Abdelrahman, Dr. Amr Adel) provided training expertise to GMU PharmD students on practical aspects of Anti-Doping activities in the country. The diverse background expertise of the committee members (Law, Genetics, Medicine,...
December 12, 2020
On December 12, 2020, Prof. Sherief Khalifa and Dr. Dixon Thomas of Gulf Medical University were invited to conduct a webinar on Competencies of Modern Clinical Pharmacists organized by the Department of Pharmacy Practice at Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, India. Entrustable Professional Activities, Pharmacists’...
December 12, 2020
On December 12, 2020, the thesis work of Master in Clinical Pharmacy (MCP) student Ms. Madiha Mukhtar was published. This thesis work and publication is an outcome of GMU collaboration with the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) at Connecticut and Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Ajman. The thesis work was conducted at Thumbay Hospital...
December 10, 2020
On December 10th, Dr. Steve Shnyder, Senior Lecturer of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences), University of Bradford, UK, delivered a research seminar on the preclinical screening steps of new anti-cancer therapies. Dr. Shnyder started his presentation by showing the facilities available at...
December 9, 2020
On December 09, 2020, the GMU Master in Clinical Pharmacy Advisory Committee discussed and prepared action plans for origramatic improvements. The meeting focused on reviewing the MCP study plan, elective rotations and rotation and thesis evaluation rubrics. The committee includes national and international expertise in the field of...