New Registration22/09/2009Pri-Med Workshop - Medicines Management 2009 and Beyond, London
 | Omar Ali - BSc(Hons)Pharm, DipClinPharm, MRPharmS, ACPP |
| Formulary Development Pharmacist, Surrey & Sussex NHS Trust | |
| Qualified with a hospital pharmacy background and currently working as the Formulary Advisor to Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Omar currently leads the regional Joint Drugs & Therapeutics Committee and sits on both the PCT Area Prescribing Committee as well as the PCT Medicines Management Steering Group. Omar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth PGDip/MSc Pharmacy Programme and last year became both Lecturer & Examiner on the Non-Medical Prescribing V300 Course at the University of Surrey. He has over 27 publications to date (prescribing management within various chronic diseases & health economics)and has authored 2 booklets on implementation of NICE Guidance & TAG documents. He has spoken at various Medical Conferences within the UK, Europe and occasionally further a field and has been appointed to the NHS Advisory Board for Pharmaceutical Field Magazine. Having been an executive board member for the National Obesity Forum, Omar is now a council member for the charity PCOS. He is an Editorial Content Adviser to Guidelines (national publication for NHS Medicines Management Teams) and also sits on the CPPE Advisory Board. Most recently, Omar has just been appointed a position on the External Reference Committee for Cost Impact Modelling for NICE. | |
Reema Caddies - PDC Healthcare | |
| Pharmacist Consultant, PDC Healthcare | |
| Reema Caddies is a Consultant Pharmacist at PDC Healthcare working particularly in the context of assisting Pharma in communication with the NHS at policy, guidelines and commissioning. She has a keen interest in training and development and has also worked in PCT roles within Medicines Management and as a Clinical Governance Facilitator in Community Pharmacy. She also has a background in pharmacist roles within the Pharmaceutical Industry. | |
Miriam George - BSc MPNLP | |
| Managing Director, PDC Healthcare | |
| Miriam George is the founder and Managing Director. Miriam worked in large pharmaceutical companies for 11 years before setting up PDC Healthcare. Since 2000, Miriam has lead the PDC team in a variety of projects in the health service, community pharmacy and with those developing and supplying medicines and equipment. Miriam is a qualified and experienced executive coach. | |
 | Jonathan Mason - BSc MSc MPhil DIC MRPharmS ACPP |
| National Clinical Director Primary Care and Community Pharmacy, Department of Health, and Head of Prescribing and Pharmacy, NHS City and Hackney | |
| Jonathan has worked in hospital pharmacy; laboratory-based research into drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics; academia; regulation (at the Medicines Control Agency); and running a busy village pharmacy. Since 1998, Jonathan has worked in primary care pharmacy, first as a prescribing support pharmacist in East Kent, then as prescribing adviser with Canterbury and Coastal PCG/T. Since 2003, Jonathan has been Head of Prescribing and Pharmacy at City and Hackney Teaching PCT. He leads and manages a team of pharmacists and technicians supporting prescribing and medicines management. He also has wider primary care commissioning responsibilities, for example he leads the anticoagulation monitoring enhanced service. Jonathan is also Flu Coordinator and Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs. In December 2008, Jonathan was appointed National Clinical Director for Primary Care and Community Pharmacy at the Department of Health. Jonathan works half-time for the Department of Health on secondment, and continues with his responsibilities as Head of Prescribing and Pharmacy at City and Hackney. | |
Dr Natalie Morris - MD | |
| Pharmacist Consultant, PDC Healthcare | |
| Natalie Morris is a PhD pharmacist and member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She designs impactful communication materials and delivered successful medical education within the pharmaceutical industry. Natalie’s input is to ensure all materials are clear, succinct and easy to use. | |
 | Shailen Rao - Chairman, PCPA |
| Soar Beyond Consultancy | |
| Shailen has a background in community pharmacy and independent prescribing advice to GPs. He is the Head of Medicines Management at Hillingdon PCT and is also the PCT lead for diabetes. Shailen has been involved in several projects in which the medicines management has been used to implement local and national health priorities and believes that primary care pharmacists are a vital cog in the delivery of healthcare. | |
Andrew Riley - Pharmacy Practitioner | |
| Head of Medicines Management, NHS Stoke on Trent | |
| Andrew Riley has been Head of Medicines Management, Stoke-on-Trent Primary Care Trust since 2004, and Current responsibilities include strategic lead on primary care prescribing (£50M drugs budget), medicines management, lead on NICE implementation (£2M reserve), Accountable Officer for controlled drugs and lead for pharmacy development. Member of decision making clinical forums including Professional Executive Committee, Clinical Priorities Advisory Forum, Clinical Effectiveness Group , Health Economy NICE Implementation Group, Trust NICE Implementation Group, Exceptional Case Panel. Chair of Medicines Management Subgroup and Area Prescribing Committee for North Staffordshire. Professional lead for prescribing and medicines management in provider organisation including specialist rheumatology hospital, Member of North Staffs Biologics Forum. Previously, between 1995-2000 Andrew was Professional Development Lead for the National Pharmacy Association. During this time he was responsible for the Development and implementation of new clinical pharmacy services including “prescribing support”, “care home medication review”, “domiciliary pharmacy”, “emergency hormonal contraception”, “hospice at home - pharmaceutical care”, “rapid access to flu treatment – RAFT.” | |
Dr Julian Sheather - MD | |
| Senior Ethics Adviser, The British Medical Association | |
Dr Julian Sheather (PhD) is ethics manager at the British Medical Association. His particular interests lie in mental health and mental capacity, in consent and capacity issues in relation to children and young people and in public health ethics. He is the BMA's policy lead on child protection and on health and human rights. Julian has worked in the BMA Ethics Department for seven years following a spell as a researcher in international health policy for the BMA's International Department. He is a co-author of Medical Ethics Today, the BMA's handbook on medical ethics and medical law, and is a regular contributor to the British Medical Journal and The Journal of Medical Ethics. He sits on the British Medical Journal’s ethics committee, the Institute of Medical Ethics and is on the advisory board of BIOS at the LSE. He lectures widely both nationally and internationally on a range of topics in medical ethics. |