On October 11, 2021, Sports Pharmacist Ashley Anderson, USA delivered an educational session on dietary supplements and therapeutic use exemption to GMU College of Pharmacy PharmD students.
Dr. Ashley Anderson is keeping her clinical skills current by staffing ICU, L&D, ED, and Med/Surg, but has also carved out a special place with her passion for sports pharmacy, preventing inadvertent doping, educating other healthcare providers about sports pharmacists’ value, and acting as a preceptor for pharmacy students. Dr. Anderson began working in 2007 for the Drug Reference department at USADA, assisting in resource development, including www.globalDRO.com drug database management. She completed the IOC Drugs in Sport Certification in February 2019 with the inaugural class of students and is now an IOC Drugs in Sport forum moderator.
Ashley is the founder of the International Sports Pharmacists Network, LLC., which promotes integrity among pharmacists involved in sports, provides consultant services on the clinical application of sports pharmacists’ training, and educates healthcare professionals. www.sportspharmacists.org
Educational sessions delivered by Dr. Anderson were part of an elective course “Drugs in Sport” which was launched last year in collaboration with the UAE Antidoping Committee and the UAE National Olympic Committee (NOC).
Prof. Sherief Khalifa, Vice Chancellor for Quality and Global Engagement and Dean of the College of Pharmacy commented “This elective course serves to cover a special population of athletes who are in much need of advice with regards to their medications. We are lucky to work with international experts in the field to be able to provide our students with the most up-to-date international best practices in the field of “Drugs in sprot”.