Thursday, 7 February 2019 (Grand Hyatt Doha Hotel)

Morning Workshop from 9am to 12 pm (3 CPD)

Workshop Title  

Presenter

Psychiatric Emergencies

Recognize clinical presentations and underlying causes for psychiatric emergencies

  • Identify treatment goals in addressing psychiatric emergencies
  • Implement evidence-based practices when managing various psychiatric emergencies
  • Design a monitoring plan for various psychiatric emergencies

Dr. Tawny Smith, PharmD, FASHP, BCPP

Geriatric prescribing

  • Review historical Development of international Assessment tool
  • List Factors affecting selection and development of Assessment tool in Qatar
  • Explain Medications involved in in-appropriate prescribing
  • Apply 4- How to promote safe older adults medicine prescribing practice

Dr. Ameena Al Yazeedi, BSc(Pharm), MBA, BCGP, CPHQ

Dr. Ahmed Fouad, BSc(Pharm), BCPS, BCGP

 

Change and Time Management

  • Analyze, plan, implement and follow up change process
  • Recognize and prioritize the opportunities and identify key stakeholders to start and sustain the important changes
  • Conduct the conversation with the stakeholders important for change implementation
  • Engage different groups of participants in the change management and recognize the most important players in the process
  • Build a strong strategy to guide your team to lead the change management
  • Recognize the barriers and facilitators to manage the desired change
  • Motivate your colleagues to start change process with a strong vision and dedication
  • Understand two different types of priority
  • Decide what is urgent and what is important

Dr. sc Arijana Meštrović, MPharm, FFIP

Dr. Michael Rouse, B.Pharm (Hons); MPS; FFIP

Establishing Interprofessional Education and Practice Experiences

  • Identify key concepts related to interprofessional education and practice (IPE/P)
  • Describe effective models for promoting IPE/P in a didactic and clinical practice setting
  • Design an initial outline of an interprofessional clinical experience for your students

Dr. Zachary (Zach) Weber, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, CDE

Optimizing success in research funding applications

  • State the key elements of a research funding application
  • Outline the main criteria by which applications will be judged
  • Construct research aims, objectives, questions and hypotheses
  • Develop a research impact and dissemination plan

Professor Derek Stewart, PgCert, BSc, MSc, PhD, FRPharmS, FFRPS

Afternoon Workshops from 1pm to 4 pm (3 CPD)

Workshop Title  

Presenter

Pharmacotherapy of ECMO: Focus on Drug Disposition and Pharmacokinetics

  • Describe the potential alterations that extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can have on medications.
  • Recommend serum concentration monitoring strategies for pharmacotherapy in patients undergoing ECMO
  • Recommend dosing strategies for medications commonly used in pediatric patients undergoing ECMO

Dr. Brady Moffett, PharmD, MPH

A Primer to the Emerging Role of Pharmacists in Anti-Doping in Sport

  • Recognize the international regulations regarding doping in sport
  • Review the criteria for inclusion of substances/methods in the WADA Prohibited List.
  • Identify the drugs listed under WADA Prohibited List according to their category
  • Explain the reasons for misuse, pharmacological actions, and adverse health consequences of selected prohibited substances/methods.
  • Explain the meaning and the application process of Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE).
  • Recognize the role of Qatar Anti-doping Commission (QADC), with emphasis on Testing and Investigation
  • Discuss the role of pharmacists and other ASP in fighting against doping in sport and ensuring safe, effective, and legal use of drugs in sport.

Dr. Fatima Al Malki, PhD

Dr. Ahmed Awaisu, PhD, B.Pharm

Dr. Afif Ahmed, B. Pharm, MSc

 

Introduction, Overview and Management" - Seizing the Day with Modern Anti-Seizure Drugs

  • Discuss the rationale for using combination antiseizure drugs over monotherapy
  • Compare and contrast the side effect profile of the traditional antiseizure drugs vs. the newer anti-seizure drugs
  • Describe the considerations for changes in drug therapy given a patient with focal onset seizures
  • Discuss the need for individualized antiseizure drug treatment in a given patient

Dr. Jacquelyn (jacci) Bainbridge, BSPharm, PharmD, FCCP, MSCS