Pharmacist Diaries

On today's episode I am delighted to introduce Alex Barker to the podcast. Alex is the author of a recently published book , Indispensable: The Prescription for a Fulfilling Pharmacy Career and the founder of The Happy PharmD . Alex created The Happy PharmD business as he is passionate about helping pharmacists create inspiring lives and careers; specifically by turning passions and strengths into...

On today's episode I am delighted to introduce Dr. Carlene Link to the podcast. Carlene completed her undergraduate Bachelor's degree at Ohio's John Carroll University in 2004, received her PharmD from The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy in 2008 and then completed her PGY-1 residency at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital, Ohio. For the first 5 years of her career, she worked as an Internal...

On today's episode I am delighted to introduce a super inspiring pharmacist and fellow podcaster, Dr Jessica Louie. Jessica is the CEO of Clarify, Simplify, Align and Host of The Burnout Doctor Podcast . Jessica uses her signature Burnout Doctor Method to coach burned out pharmacists & professionals to simplify, align work into your life & break free from people pleasing and perfectionism...

On today's episode I am excited to introduce Naimah Callachand to the podcast. A versatile pharmacist with extensive experience in communications, digital health, content development and editing, medical writing, research and a high-level of clinical pharmacy knowledge. We had a wonderful conversation about her career to date. We were fortunate enough to hear her unique journey in the following ar...

On today's episode, Poonam Lumb and I take a deep dive into our personal journeys with recruitment. We share things that have worked really well for us as individuals as well as elements of recruitment that we have had to develop with experience and practice. As we both have several years of experience now and we interview junior pharmacists in our roles, we also share some useful tips on what emp...

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Victoria Rutter to the podcast! Victoria is the current Executive Director at the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) . She is a pharmacist by background with over 20 years of diverse practice across the Commonwealth, including high-level advocacy, policy, strategic development and international project management. She started her career as a hospita...

On today's episode, I welcome Yasir Sacranie to the podcast. Yasir is a Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist and a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice. He is the founder of MicroPharm which is an online platform intended to provide medical and pharmacy education for students and healthcare professionals, including crash courses and study guides for the GPhC Pharmacy examination. Over the space of...

Today I have the pleasure of launching the first paediatric pharmacist on the podcast, Poonam Lumb! This episode was an absolute delight to record and a wonderful conversation between two passionate paediatric pharmacists sharing their journeys into this speciality. Poonam is currently the Lead Pharmacist for Women's and Children's Services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and has working...

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Agith Navalan to the podcast this week. Agith is a recent MPharm graduate from University College London (UCL) and is currently a pre-registration pharmacist in community pharmacy. He starts his next adventure into Medicine at St George's, University of London in September 2021. On today's episode, we have such a meaningful conversation on the following topi...

On today's episode I am super excited to introduce Steven Giddings to the podcast. Steven is currently the Lead Pharmacist for Education and Training at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and has recently started working with the undergraduate pharmacy team at Kings College London. He is extremely passionate about inspiring the pharmacy workforce, a...

On today's episode I am pleased to introduce an enthusiastic and focused clinical pharmacist, Tanya Aubeeluck. Tanya is a firm believer of a professional 5-year plan and the belief that life has a way of showing you different paths. She started out as a community pharmacist but behind the scenes she was developing her goals in order to navigate into a clinic based or General Practice based career...

On today's episode I am super excited to introduce a senior cardiovascular pharmacist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) and creator of the MedTap App, Gayle Campbell. I saw the MedTap App advertised at the hospital on one of the TV screens last year. I was so excited that a pharmacist had launched an innovative platform that supports patients to take their medications correctly t...

On today's episode I am delighted to introduce Catherine Quinlan to the podcast. Catherine started her pharmacy journey as a STEP Pharmacist at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London. She completed 3 years in this role whilst undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (PG Dip GPP) with University College London (UCL). She has recently embarked on a new adventure as a Haema...

Christmas is over. January is here. However it feels a bit different this year. Perhaps there isn't the same level of optimism that usually arrives with the new year. For some it is also a stressful time. Lockdown 3.0 means more of us working from home again, kids homeschooling, worrying about new strains of the virus. All of this can impact the levels of stress in our life. In this episode I sit...

Amar Suchde is a fully qualified independent prescribing- aesthetic pharmacist, specialising in non-surgical cosmetic treatments. After a successful career in pharmacy, Amar repositioned himself into the world of aesthetics. A pioneer in his field, Amar set up his first clinic, AMS Aesthetics, in London’s prestigious Harley Street. From there, he went on to set up four other venues in and around L...

Martin Eguridu has recently embarked on a new journey as a Primary Care Network Pharmacist which he has been enjoying thoroughly so far. To hear his full story, please check out Episode 23 of the podcast. Today's episode focuses on Martin's first couple of months working in a GP Practice. He tells us about how he has dealt with this career transition, what he has learnt so far and how he plans to...

Martin Eguridu is a passionate, positive, and motivated pharmacist with big dreams. He graduated from Medway School of Pharmacy in 2015 and started his pharmacy career as a community pharmacist with Lloyd's Pharmacy. He was promoted to Pharmacy Manager within one year of qualifying, an achievement I believe he definitely deserves! He is clearly passionate about his career and demonstrates great le...

Allie Xu is best described as a multi-tasking pharmacy queen! I love her energy and positivity and am so pleased to launch this episode! She is a community pharmacist and holistic health coach with a special interest in mind-body connection, Emotional Intelligence and women's health, and currently studying a Masters in Chinese Medicine to learn about Eastern Medicine Philosophy lifestyle and the s...

On today's episode I am thrilled to introduce the current Chief Executive Officer at the International Pharmaceutical Federation , also known as FIP, Catherine Duggan. Catherine has been working with FIP since 2018. She is responsible for visionary leadership, support, advocacy and delivery of the FIP vision and mission across 144 member organisations and 160 Academic Institutions representing 4 m...

On today's episode I am delighted to introduce Dr Ijeoma Ekeocha. Ijeoma started her jounrey into pharmacy in 2003 as a student at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia , also known as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (PCP) and now called USciences or University of the Sciences. She graduated in 2009 and began her career as a clinical Pharmacist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital . Five years...

On today's episode we explore the journey of a Pharmacist and Certified Health Coach, Dr Gina Suarez, all the way from the island of Puerto Rico. We focus the start of our conversation on Gina's experience of community pharmacy at the start of her career. We discuss the impact of high levels of stress and job dissatisfaction in a community pharmacy setting which can lead to unhealthy habits,...

On today's epsiode I am absolutely delighted to introduce an inspiring and dedicated pharmacist who I consider a role model within our profession, Mrs Sarah Cavanagh. Sarah has nearly 30 years of healthcare and teaching experience in the NHS, the private, the academic and the voluntary sectors, in the UK and overseas. She starts her pharmacy career as a Medicines Information (MI) pharmacist, a rol...

I am so excited to welcome Dr Jennifer Shannon onto the podcast today. Jennifer is a wonderful mother of 4 beautiful children, dedicated wife to Professor Mike, and currently the proud owner of Lily's Pharmacy in Georgia, USA. She started her career as an enthusiastic resident pharmacist; an experience which she clearly loved and her passion for this type of role at the start of a pharma...

On today's episode we invite our first pre-registration pharmacist to the podcast, Janelle Soong. Janelle is a Kings College London pharmacy graduate and has just started her split community pharmacy (Day Lewis Pharmacy) and pharmaceutical industry (GSK) pre-registration placement. She is also the author of  Let Sleeping Pharmacists Lie: Tales from Pharmacy School and the patients you ne...

On this week's episode, we are fortunate enough to welcome Dr Freddy Kitutu all the way from Kampala, Uganda. Dr Freddy is currently the Dean of the School of Health Sciences at Makerere University. He considers himself an academic pharmacist at heart with a special focus on health systems research. He is passionate about teaching clinical pharmacy to undergraduate pharmacy students, specifically&...