Speakers

Alia is a Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities and diabetes. She helped established and run a bi-lingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002. This was the “MELT” service (Minority Ethnic Long Term medicines Service) which operated for an over a decade. She has also been running outreach clinics for ethnic minorities for over a decade in various locations e.g. mosques, elderly centres. She was a member for 13 years of the diabetes working group for the South Asian Health Foundation and had the role of Regional lead and CEO for 2 years. She was the first pharmacist on the Primary Care Diabetes Society and a committee member for 7 years. She currently works freelance for the NHS helping support and improve outcomes for people with cardio metabolic disease. She also delivers education around the UK to healthcare professionals.