A team of Robert Gordon University (RGU) scientists are gearing up to host a major health conference in the Middle East later this year.
Lecturers from the university’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences are organising a patient safety conference which will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Doha, Qatar on 22nd and 23rd April.
More than 300 delegates are expected to attend the two-day event which is aimed at pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy academics and students in Qatar.
The inaugural conference is a joint project between RGU, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Qatar University and, funded by the Academic Health System of HMC.
Professor Derek Stewart from RGU chairs the scientific committee of the conference, which also includes RGU pharmacy lecturers Dr Scott Cunningham and Dr Katie MacLure. Additionally, Professor Donald Cairns, Head of RGU’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, will give one of the opening addresses to start the conference alongside colleagues from Hamad Medical Corporation and Qatar University.
Organisers have arranged for 30 speakers and group work facilitators to guide delegates through the event as they share ideas and best practice from across the region. Other RGU Pharmacy lecturers Dr Vibhu Paudyal, Alyson Brown and Dr Brian Addison have also been involved in organising different sessions of the event.
Professor Stewart said, ‘We’re proud to work alongside our partners at Hamad Medical Corporation and Qatar University to organise the patient safety conference.
‘The event will focus on patient safety and how advances in pharmacy can contribute to it. Dr Moza Sulaiman H Al Hail, the Executive Director of Pharmacy at Hamad Medical Corporation, is a visiting professor at RGU and has been instrumental in forging links between RGU and our partners in Qatar.
‘The underlying message of the conference will be that working in an academic health system, which develops partnerships between academia and healthcare, supports patient safety.’
