Pharmacist

Focus of Interest: REGISTERED PHARMACIST

Dedicated and reliable healthcare professional, equipped with outstanding pharmacy function support skills, quality assurance/ control experience. Demonstrate ability to cultivate productive relationships with doctors, nurses, patients, customers, and other healthcare professionals. Sharply focused and committed in maintaining the highest level of service at all times while ensuring safe and effective use of medications.

Core competencies include:

- Effectively served as a liaison between the healthcare team and the community, improving drug usage and therapeutic outcomes

- Familiar in providing sterile solutions to be administered intravenously and coordinating drug programs or regimens

- Experienced in preparing and compounding medications according to formula and guidelines

- Knowledgeable in HPLC apparatus, hoods, pumps, and different mixing apparatus used for TPN mixing

- Computer literate, proficient in Windows XP, MS Word, Excel , and Internet

CREDENTIALS

North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX): 2008

Certification from Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee: 2006

Bachelor of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan: 1997

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Staten Island University Hospital - Staten Island, NY

PHARMACY SUPPORT / PHARMACY INTERN JAN 2006-DEC 2008

- Assumed various responsibilities related to daily operations of hospital setting

- Provided assistance to supervising pharmacist in all areas including ICU, CCU, E-R, ONC, floor satellites, and others

- Efficiently performed various duties involving interpretation, data entry of PO and IV orders and dispensing of the right medication to appropriate patient promptly

- Organized and maintained record of all dispensing ,pediatric IV dosing, dose switching, adjusting on the basis of age, sex , renal function , poly pharmacy, disease state, and others

- Engaged in providing information on drugs, dosage forms , dosages, drug regimes, interactions, adverse reactions, therapeutic and formulary equivalents, as well as compatibility issues

- Played an integral part in compounding, mixing sterile products including TPNs using automated devices

- Contributed in compounding of chemotherapy agents, processing control substance requisitions, dispensing and recordkeeping of narcotics under supervision

- Acquired substantial knowledge of extemporaneous compounding that were not available commercially

OTHER EXPERIENCE

ROCHE Pakistan Ltd. - Karachi, Pakistan

QUALITY CONTROL ANALYST FEB-MAY 1999

ELI-LILLY - Karachi, Pakistan

QUALITY CONTROL ANALYST SEP 1998-JAN 1999

NOVARTIS Pharmaceuticals - Karachi, Pakistan

PRODUCTION AND QUALITY CONTROL JUNE-JULY 1998

SEARLE Pakistan Ltd. - Karachi, Pakistan

TRAINEE PHARMACIST DEC 1997-FEB 1998

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