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Dr Gazala Akram

Senior Teaching Fellow

51cg Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

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Personal statement

I have been qualified as a pharmacist for over 30 years and have 20 + years of experience in academia. My clinical speciality is psychiatric pharmacy and I have practised across the breadth of inpatient mental health services including adult, forensic, addiction and young people.Ìý My research is primarily optimising psychotropic medicine use and more recently in Pharmacy Regulation.Ìý

I am aÌý Registrant Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) ‘Fitness to Practice’ committee and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pharmacy (since 2020).Ìý

I have teaching commitments on the MPharm and PG degrees and I am the Course Drector for the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2024
Recipient
12/11/2014
Recipient
7/11/2014
Recipient
8/10/2014
Recipient
2/10/2014
Recipient
9/10/2010

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Publications

, Carmel Yoni, Gittins Rosalind,
Pharmacy Vol 14 (2026)
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Depression and Anxiety Vol 2026 (2026)
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Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy Vol 21, pp. e69 (2025)
Cairns Fiona, Patrick Robyn, Calderhead Gillian, Forsyth Paul,
Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy Vol 13 (2024)
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Mental Health Care Futures (2023)
College of Mental Health Pharmacy (2022)

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Professional Activities

Peer reviewer
1/1/2026
Advisor
22/12/2025
Examiner
1/11/2025
Advisor
5/8/2025
Speaker
5/6/2025
Participant
4/6/2025

Projects

Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Pratt, Judith (Co-investigator) Watson, Margaret (Co-investigator) Alshammari, Hisham Abdulaziz M (Researcher) Kernaghan, David (Researcher)
16-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
Akram, Gazala (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
Adair, Pauline (Academic) Akram, Gazala (Academic) Dixon, Diane (Academic)
This cross-disciplinary project addresses a key challenge in children’s health and directly addresses current Government initiatives to improve patient safety following the Francis report. This study is a new cross-faculty collaboration in the area of patient safety and medication use. Patient safety is a core research theme for Behavioural Medicine at 51cg (Adair & Dixon) and is a key research theme with the proposed Centre for Behavioural Medicine in HASS. It will initiate a planned programme of cross-faculty collaboration (SIPBS and School of psychological Sciences and Health) in the area of medication use. This programme of research fills a gap and directly addresses the third wave of improvements in health outcomes driven by behaviour change, which will drive many of the advancements in healthcare in the next ten years.
07-Jan-2014 - 06-Jan-2014
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
Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Akram, Gazala (Co-investigator) Hudson, Stephen (Co-investigator)
11-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2012
Akram, Gazala (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2010 - 31-Jan-2010

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Dr Gazala Akram
Senior Teaching Fellow
51cg Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Email: gazala.akram@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4980