Dr. Dixon Thomas

Gulf Medical University > Dr. Dixon Thomas

Associate Dean Clinical and Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Education

  • B.Pharm from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India in 2002
  • M.Pharm from Annamalai University, India in 2005
  • Ph.D. from Karpagam University, India in 2013
  • Graduate Diploma in Health Profession Education from Gulf Medical University, UAE in 2015
  • M.S. in Education Management from Alagappa University, India in 2007
  • M.Sc. in Psychology from Madras University, India in 2010

Research Interest

  • Quality Assurance in Pharmacy Education
  • Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
  • Renal Pharmacotherapy

Selected Publications

  • Halat, D.H., Alsous, M.M., Al-Jumaili, A.A., Malki, A., Ahmed, K.K., Hamad, A., Darwish, R., Thomas, D., Bukhatwa, S., Khdour, M., Alkhudair, N., Al-Balushi, A.A., Khalifa, S., Alsharif, N.Z., Rahal, M. Pharmacy faculty experiences with student academic entitlement: a multinational study from the Arab world. BMC Med Educ 24, 470 (2024). [link]
  • Ismail, R. M., Thomas, D., & Jagdale, R. (2024). Influence of medications on fall risk assessment in maintenance hemodialysis patients: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science 14(1):p 32-36, Jan–Mar 2024. [link]
  • Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Ali Azeez Al-Jumaili, Kawther Khalid Ahmed, Mohamad Rahal, Anas Hamad, Rula Darwish, Mervat M. Al Sous, Dixon Thomas, Salma Bukhatwa, Maher Khdour, Nora Alkhudair, Abdullah Ali Al Balushi, Sherief Khalifa, Naser Z. Alsharif, Academic entitlement among pharmacy students in the Arab World: A multi-national exploratory study, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2024, 100640. [link]
  • Alblooshi, S., Thomas, D., Zachariah, S. Perceptions on continuity of Cardiovascular patient care by Institutional and Community Pharmacists. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. 2023 Jul 24;16(7):3373-8.
  • Ebeid, S.O., Thomas, D., Jagdale, R., Gopakumar, A., Baker, D. Impact of Pharmacist Counseling on Treatment Adherence Outcomes of patients undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. 2023 Sep 30;16(9):4384-90.
  • Meer, S., Thomas, D., Sebastian, J., Gopakumar, A., McKeirnan, K. Perceptions of pregnant women on COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccine-associated risks. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. 2023 Oct 28;16(10):4861-66.
  • Thomas, D., Shabeek, A.A., Ahmed, H., Mohammed, M., Kawaguchi-Suzuki, M., Anderson, A., Gopakumar, A., Alhosani, R., Khalifa, S., Mottram, D. Impact of an educational flyer and sensitization on performance-enhancement attitudes of bodybuilders in United Arab Emirates. F1000Research. 2023 Feb 23;12(208):208. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Abdalla, A., Hussein, S., Joury, J., Elshamy, A., Khalifa, S., Saleh, Z. Pharmacists’ readiness and willingness to vaccinate the public in United Arab Emirates community pharmacies: A cross-sectional study. F1000Research. 2023 Mar 16;12(292):292. [link]
  • Azeez Al-Jumaili, A., Elhiny, R., Thomas, D., Elbarbry, F., Khdour, M., Sherbeny, F., Hamad, A., Factors Impacting Job Satisfaction among Pharmacists in the Arab World: A Qualitative Study, Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal (2023), doi: [link]
  • Lockeman, K., Thomas, D., Dow, A., Willson, M., Sridhar, S., Zorek, J.A. I2C2: An international interprofessional clinical case competition for health professions students. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. 2022 Sep 5:100548. [link]
  • Zachariah, S., Thomas, D., Mohamed, F., Chiraparambil, M., Soorya, A., Parveen, A., Singh, B., Gopakumar, A., & Baker, D. (2022). Agreement of medicine and pharmacy students on quality of drug information. Pharmacy Education, 22(1), p. 771–777. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Maas, M., Babu, T., & Cooper, J. (2022). The neuron model: An educational tool for evidence-based practice and interprofessional care. Pharmacy Education, 22(1), p. 424–427. [link]
  • Al-Jumaili, A., Sherbeny, F., Elhiny, R., Hijazi, B., Elbarbry, F., & Rahal, M., Bukhatwa, S., Khdour, M., Thomas, D., Khalifa, S. et al. (2022). Exploring job satisfaction among pharmacy professionals in the Arab world: a multi-country study. International Journal Of Pharmacy Practice. doi: 10.1093/ijpp/riac011. [link]
  • Vippadapu, P., Gillani, S.W., Thomas, D., Ahmed, F., Mohiudeen, G.S., Mahmood, R.K., Menon, V., Abdi, S., Rathore, H.A. (2022) Choice of Antimicrobials in Surgical Prophylaxis – Overuse and Surgical Site Infection Outcomes from a Tertiary-Level Care Hospital. Front. Pharmacol. 13:849044. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.849044. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Zachariah S., Baker D., Cooper J., Sreedharan J., Khalifa S. Impact of educational intervention in evidence-based drug information in interprofessional practice at a tertiary-level care hospital, Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 2022, 100496. [link]
  • Ahmad, H.A, Thomas, D., Alrais, M., Burton, A., Jagdale, R. Shortcoming of Measuring Patient Satisfaction’s Association With Anemia-Based Cardiovascular Risk in End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients. Cardiology Research. 2021 Dec;12(6):344. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Abdalla, A., McKeirnan, K., & Khalifa, S. (2021). Standard-Setting for Continuing Education Assessment of Select New Competencies. Journal Of Continuing Education In The Health Professions, Publish Ahead of Print. [link]
  • Suliman, E., Thomas, D., Elnour, A., Robin, N., & Maas, M. (2021). Systematic review on the choice of antibiotics for management of complicated urinary tract bacterial infections and acute pyelonephritis. Drugs & Therapy Perspectives, 37(10), 470-479. [link]
  • Al Zahawi, R,.H., Baig, M.R., Thomas, D., Al Meslamani, A.A. (2021) Benchmarking clinical pharmacy services in the United Arab Emirates with United States of America and Sweden. J Pharm Pharmacogn Res 9(6): 780–789. [link]
  • Alagheband. Z., Zachariah. S., Thomas. D., Dixon. D.L. (2020). Lipid profile outcome gaps of Arabs and South Asians receiving chronic Statin therapy. International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 11(SPL4), 2194-2200. [link]
  • Elnajjar. S., Thomas. D., Tabbara. O., Baker. D. (2020). Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats analysis on choice of multi chamber bag or compounded parenteral nutrition. International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 11(SPL4), 2298-2303. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Beshir, S.A., Zachariah, S., Gnana, K., Hamdy H. Distance assessment of counselling skills using virtual patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Pharmacy Education, 2020; 20(2):196 – 204. [link]
  • Abdalla, A., Thomas, D., McKeirnan, K., Khalifa, S. Fitness to Administer Influenza Vaccine by Pharmacists in the UAE: Quasi-experimental Pre-Post Intervention Study. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2020 Dec 28. [link]
  • Hani, N., Zachariah, S., Thomas, D., Cooper, J.C. Pharmacist-led heart failure patient focus group using mobile apps-based intervention mix. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research. 2020 Dec 19. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Khalifa, S., Sreedharan, J., Bond, R. Inter-rater Reliability of Preceptors on Clinical Pharmacy Competency Evaluation. Current Drug Therapy. 2020. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Zachariah, S., Akers. J. Clinical practice guidelines appraisal and utilisation by Pharm.D. students. Pharmacy Education. 2020; 20(1):375-378. DOI: [link]
  • Mukhtar, M., Thomas, D., Mohiuddin, G.S., Hiselius, J., & Burton, A. Effectiveness of Clinical Pharmacist Collaborative Care in Resolution of Antibiotic Drug-Related Problems in an Intensive Care Unit. The Internet Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2020; 18(1): 1-7. [link]
  • Gillani, S.W., Mohiuddin, G.S., Thomas, D., Gebreigziabher, F.B., Al-Salloum, J., Assadi, R.A., & Gnana, K. (2020). Role and Services of Pharmacist in the Prevention of Medication Errors: A Systematic Review. Current Drug Safety, 15. doi: 10.2174/1574886315666201002124713. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Cooper, J., & Maas, M. (2020). Neuron Model of Interprofessional Education and Evidence-Based Practice. INNOVATIONS in pharmacy, 11(3), 15-15. [link]
  • Al-Salloum J, Thomas D, AlAni G, Singh B. Interprofessional Care of Emergency Department Doctors and Pharmacists: Crossing a Collaboration Chasm. Inov Pharm [Internet]. 2020 Jun 9. [link]
  • Zachariah S, Al-Tamimi M, Vippadapu P, Shenouda W, Thomas D. Value of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis by enoxaparin with anti-factor Xa trough concentration monitoring in surgical care. Pharmacy Practice. 2020 Feb 17. [link]
  • Thomas, D., Baker, D. and Zachariah, S. (2020). Decentralize-Change-Recentralize Model of Drug Information Networks in Health Centers: Decentralized Drug Information Services. INNOVATIONS in pharmacy, 11(1), 19. [link]
  • Thomas, D. (2018).  Clinical Pharmacy Education, Practice and Research. (1st Ed). Elsevier. London. ISBN: 9780128142769. [Link]
  • Thomas, D., Zachariah, S. (2017). Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Pharmacovigilance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. In: Ibrahim, M., Wertheimer, A., Babar, Z. Social and Administrative Aspects of Pharmacy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. (1st Ed). Academic Press. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128112281. [Link]
  • Thomas, D., Ali, Z., Zachariah, S., Sundararaj, K.G.S., Cuyk, M.V., Cooper, J.C. (2017). Coxibs refocus attention on the cardiovascular risks of non-aspirin NSAIDs. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs,17(5),343–346.  [Link]
  • Jalali, S., Thomas, D., Shetty, P., & Cooper, J. C. (2017). Higher regulatory control of tramadol to prevent its abuse and dependence. Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, 2017-08-29.
  • Thomas, D., Tazerouni, H., Sundararaj, K. G. S., & Cooper, J. C. (2016). Therapeutic failure of primaquine and need for new medicines in radical cure of Plasmodium vivax. Acta Trop, 21, 160:35. [Link]
  • Thomas, D., Sundararaj, K. G. S., Shirwaikar, A., & Tarn, Y. (2016). Inclusion of Pharmacoeconomics course in the Undergraduate Pharmacy Education: A Global Trend Review. Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 9(3),147. [Link] 
  • Gerardo, A., Thomas, D., Zachariah, S., Byram, R., & Kannan, S. (2014). Cost-analysis of the WHO Essential Medicines List in A Resource-Limited Setting: Experience from A District Hospital in India. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 8(5), HM01–HM03.   [Link]
  • Zachariah, S., Sowmya, C., & Thomas, D. (2013). Grades of evidences in drug information provided at a rural Indian hospital. International Journal of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 04(03), 29. [Link]
  • Priyanka, P. T., Kumar, M. B., Zachariah, S., Thomas, D., Saunchez, L., & Gerardo, A. (2013). An interventional study on intensive care unit drug therapy assessment in a rural district hospital in India. Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacy, 4(3), 64. [Link]
  • Sowmya, S. K. R., Thomas, D., Zachariah, S., & Sunad, A. D. (2013). Assessment of Adverse Events and Quality of Life of Cancer Patients in a Secondary Level Care, Rural Hospital in South India. Value in Health Regional Issues, 2(1), 103.  [Link]
  • Thomas, D., Mathew, M., Raghavan, C. V., Mohanta, G. P., & Reddy, Y. P. (2012). Days lost due to disability of diclofenac-induced adverse drug reactions. Pharmacy Practice, 10(1), 40. [Link]

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