Khaled Albawwab, PharmD, CGP

Clinical PharmacistFull Time

• Job Details:• Building relationships with clients. • Evaluating client needs and proposing clinical solutions for those identified needs. • Collaborating with the patient's other primary healthcare practitioners to plan and execute clinical strategies for clients by selecting the medication therapy that best meets the patient's needs and contributes effectively to the overall therapy goals. • Analyzing and reporting clinical data. • Consulting with healthcare practitioners with regards to off-label medicines use. • Keeping up-to-date with research and development. • Sharing new information and research with other healthcare practitioners. • Liaising with other medical staff on problems patients may experience when taking their medicines. • Discussing treatments with patients' relatives, and other healthcare practitioners. • Preparing and quality checking sterile medications. • Engaging in scientific discussions with key opinion leaders' beliefs and research interest. • Responding to unsolicited questions in the medical information area. • Utilizing appropriate resources to stay current with the scientific literature. • Providing ongoing primary care for chronic stable or minor acute health problems. • Following the patient's progress to determine the effects of the patient's medications on his or her health. • Referring patients to their physicians or other healthcare professionals to address specific health wellness, or social services concerns as they arise. • Assuring optimal, effective pharmaceutical care and collaborative practice for a population of low income. • Evaluating drug interactions between co-administrated medications; intervening when appropriate to minimize potentially harmful interactions. • Adjusting and monitoring drug regimens for individuals with hepatic and renal impairment. • Analyzing laboratory and diagnostic test results to adjust treatment plans accordingly. • Ordering appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostic studies necessary to monitor and support the patient's drug therapy based upon international protocols. • Conducting comprehensive appraisals of patient's health status by taking health and medications histories necessary to assess drug therapies. • Recognizing untreated health problems that could be improved or resolved with appropriate medication therapy. • Performing physical measurement necessary to assure patient responds to drug therapy. • Providing relevant drug information to practitioners and patients. • Assuring appropriate drug administration, prescribing parameters, and patient adherence. • Demonstrating knowledge of contemporary pharmacy practice and service including integration of clinical services, distributive services, education, and research activities. • Implemented thorough understanding of laws, regulations and standards governing pharmacy practice.

Clinical PharmacistFull Time

• Job Details:• Joined rounds with various healthcare providers in different medical settings including but NOT limited to internal medicine, critical care, pediatrics, dialysis unit, surgical ward and emergency department. • An executive coordinator of the Oncology committee. • Participated in standardizing of chemotherapy administration policy. • Contributed to, and supervised multidisciplinary collaborative research studies. • Wrote guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implemented hospital regulations. • Analyzed laboratory and diagnostic test results to adjust treatment plans accordingly. • Conducted comprehensive appraisals of patient's health status by taking health and medications histories necessary to assess drug therapies. • Ordered appropriate laboratory tests and diagnostic studies necessary to monitor and support the patient's drug therapy based upon international protocols. • Consulted with the patient's physicians and other healthcare providers in selecting the medication therapy that best meets the patient's needs and contributes effectively to the overall therapy goals. • Provided relevant drug information to practitioners and patients. • Monitored and ordering patients' laboratory values on a daily basis. • Assured appropriate drug administration, prescribing parameters, and patient adherence. • Adjusted and monitoring drug regimens for individuals with hepatic and renal impairment. • Evaluated drug interactions between co-administrated medications; intervened when appropriate to minimize potentially harmful interactions. • Recognized untreated health problems that could be improved or resolved with appropriate medication therapy. • Demonstrated knowledge of contemporary pharmacy practice and service including integration of clinical services, distributive services, education, and research activities. • Recognized for ability to manage high volume of patient accounts. • Worked with other members of pharmacy to assure accuracy of prescriptions. • Interacted constructively with members of a culturally diverse work environment. • Implemented thorough understanding of laws, regulations and standards governing pharmacy practice. • Supervised pharmacy interns in different medical settings. • Supervised nurses' aseptic techniques to prepare various IV admixtures, TPN and performing proper training regarding diluents compatibility and infusion rates. • Provided evidence-based recommendations for various FDA and non-FDA approved medications. • Reduced expenditures by standardizing surgical site prophylaxis protocol and changing patients' treatment plans to formulary medicines covered by their health insurances. • Played key-role in simplifying treatment regimens for polypharmacy patients. • Worked with the quality control department to get various hospital accreditation certificates such as Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) and Health Care Accreditation Council (HCAC). • Supervised healthcare providers' adherence for medication reconciliation.