About the Author:
Nadia
Bukhari BPharm, PG Dip Pharm Prac, PG Dip T&L in
Higher Ed, MRPharmS, FHEA
Nadia Bukhari is the Chair of the RPS
Pre-registration Conferences. She developed the extremely popular and
over-subscribed conference, when it first started in 2012. Nadia graduated from
the School of Pharmacy, University of London in 1999. After qualifying, she
worked as a pharmacy manager at Westbury Chemist, Streatham for a year, after
which she moved on to work for Bart's and the London NHS Trust as a clinical
pharmacist in surgery It was at this time that Nadia developed an interest in teaching,
because part of her role involved the responsibility of being a teacher
practitioner for the school of Pharmacy, University of London. Two and a half
years later, she commenced working for the School of Pharmacy, University of
London as the pre-registration coordinator and the academic facilitator. This
position involved teaching therapeutics to Master of Pharmacy students and
assisting the director of undergraduate studies.
While teaching undergraduate students, Nadia
completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice and her Post Graduate
Diploma in Teaching in Higher Education. She then took on the role of the
Master of Pharmacy Programme Manager, which involved the management of the
undergraduate degree as well as being the pre-registration coordinator for the
university.
Since the merger with UCL, Nadia has now taken on
the role of Senior Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice and is the
pre-registration coordinator and alumni coordinator for the university. She is
also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the module lead for the
final year pharmacy practice course.
Taking her research interest further, Nadia is
currently in the fifth year of her PhD, which she is doing on a part-time
basis. Her research area is 'leadership in pharmacy'.
Nadia's interest in writing emerged in her first
year of working in academia. Thirteen years on, Nadia has authored six titles
with the Pharmaceutical Press. She is currently writing her eighth title, which
is due to be published in February 2018.
Nadia is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
in recognition of her distinction in the profession of pharmacy and is an
elected Board member for the English Pharmacy Board. |