Speakers

Hadeel is a senior pharmacist prescriber with a background in hospital and general practice. She is currently Deputy Head of Clinical Pharmacy and Education Lead for a GP Federation in Leeds, and polypharmacy clinical lead for Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber. As a member of the RPS Primary Care Expert Advisory Group, Hadeel passionately advocates the pharmacy profession and recognition of the value that pharmacy professionals add to patient care across all sectors. Hadeel has a keen interest in education, training and research, and volunteers as a RPS mentor. In recent years, Hadeel founded a mentoring initiative specifically aimed at supporting female pharmacy professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds to enhance leadership skills (ENIGMA). The initiative has now expanded and is offered nationally across all pharmacy sectors. Hadeel is now in her final year of a PhD at The University of Bradford, which is exploring medication self-management behaviours in older patients using multiple medicines at the hospital-to-home transition. She is excited for research to become a more integral part of pharmacy professional roles and champions this nationally as committee member for the Primary Care academic CollaboraTive (PACT) and Research Lead of the Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA).