Dr Gazala Akram
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Personal statement
Personal statement
I have teaching commitments on the MPharm and PG degrees and I am the Course Drector for the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy. Until recently (Jan 2025) I also had a clinical commitment (0.3 wte) to the National Children's Psychiatric Unit based at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.
I also hold a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Nottingham (1997).
My doctorate from the Univ of Strathclyde was concerned with clinical information provision for lay persons in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2010)
My research interests largely stem from my clinical work and experiance of Mental Health service delivery. I am also interested in developing the role of the (Community) pharmacy team within mental health service delivery.
I have recently become a registrant member of the GPhC Statutory Committee for Fitness To Practice (2024 -
I was designated a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutcal Society in 2019.
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Prize And Awards
- Developing GP and Comm Pharm partnerships
- Recipient
- 12/11/2014
- Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project
- Recipient
- 7/11/2014
- Patients and service providers understanding of the Metabolic Effects of Clozapine-Best Research Poster.
- Recipient
- 8/10/2014
- Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project
- Recipient
- 2/10/2014
- ‘Teachers Knowledge & Perceptions of ADHD and its treatment’. Awarded “ Best Original Research” Presentation.
- Recipient
- 9/10/2010
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Publications
- A qualitative exploration of how pharmacy professionals in primary care utilise planned protected development time
- Cairns Fiona, Patrick Robyn, Calderhead Gillian, Forsyth Paul, Akram Gazala
- Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy Vol 13 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2024.100417
- Building the evidence base for community pharmacy depression services
- Weir Natalie, Kernaghan David, Watson Margaret, Akram Gazala, Maxwell Margaret, Pratt Judith
- Mental Health Care Futures (2023)
- Take-home naloxone carriage among opioid users in Lanarkshire
- Hill Duncan, Al azizi Buthania, Conroy Stephen, Akram Gazala
- Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems Vol 23, pp. 45-50 (2021)
- Public perceptions and experiences of the minor ailment service in community pharmacy in Scotland
- Boag Lee, Maclure Katie, Boyter Anne, Cunningham Scott, Akram Gazala, McQuillan Harry, Stewart Derek
- Pharmacy Practice Vol 19 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2021.1.2152
- A qualitative study investigating the barriers to the implementation of the 'Sepsis Six Care Bundle' in maternity wards
- Abutheraa Nouf, Mullen Alexander B, Grant June, Akram Gazala
- Healthcare Vol 8 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8040374
- Administration of a long-acting antipsychotic injection to a child while managing contraindicated polypharmacy interactions and transition between services
- Akram Gazala, Mitchell Fiona
- BMJ Case Reports Vol 12 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228509
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Professional Activities
- CMHP PRUK Research Award Building the Evidence Base for Community Pharmacy Depression Services: A Systematic Review and Multi-Stakeholder Consensus Exercise
- Contributor
- 12/10/2024
- Community Pharmacy Depression Service Project: Final Dissemination Event
- Contributor
- 1/7/2024
- Building the evidence base for community pharmacy depression services: a systematic review and multi-stakeholder consensus exercise
- Speaker
- 7/10/2023
- A systematic review on the community pharmacy-led depression services: outcomes and implementation success
- Contributor
- 6/10/2023
- 11th Nordic Social Pharmacy Conference
- Member of programme committee
- 31/8/2022
- Medication Use in ADHD
- Speaker
- 21/11/2017
Projects
- Building the Evidence Base for Community Pharmacy Depression Services: a Systematic Review and Multi-stakeholder Consensus Exercise (CMHP-PRUK CP Mental Health Services)
- Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Pratt, Judith (Co-investigator) Watson, Margaret (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- COMMUNITY PHARMACY SCOTLAND: INVESTIGATING VALUE AS PERCEIVED AND EXPERIENCED BY SERVICE USERS
- Akram, Gazala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
- Macmillan Rural Palliative Care Pharmacist Practitioner Project
- Dunlop, Emma (Researcher) Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Newham, Rosemary (Researcher)
- • Working in the Skye, Kyle & Lochalsh area, this project aims to establish the gaps and strengths of the end of life/palliative pharmacy-based services in this rural project area. Funded by Boots PLC, NHS Highland and Macmillan
- 01-Jan-2013 - 31-Jan-2014
- Evaluation of the macmillan pharmacist facilitator project
- Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Hudson, Stephen (Co-investigator)
- 11-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2012
- Macmillan Pharmacist Facilitator Project- NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
- Dunlop, Emma (Researcher) Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Maxwell, David (Researcher)
- To inform the development of the Macmillan Pharmacist Facilitator role in delivering a quality improvement programme of patient care services provided by community pharmacists in the NHS GG&C.
- 01-Jan-2009 - 01-Jan-2015
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Contact
Dr
Gazala
Akram
Senior Teaching Fellow
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Email: gazala.akram@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4980