ASMAA SALAMA
Summary
Motivated and detail-oriented Pharmacy graduate with a Master's degree in Clinical Nutrition. Extensive hands-on experience in clinical and managerial pharmacy settings, including compounding, workflow supervision, and medication safety oversight. Highly skilled in collaborative, multidisciplinary work environments, engaging with healthcare professionals and insurance providers for optimal patient outcomes. Proactive and supportive leader excelling under pressure, with proven ability to manage teams, streamline operations, and adapt to evolving healthcare demands.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Pharmacy Manager
Belbeis General Hospital
08.2024 - 05.2025
- Oversaw and coordinated the work schedules of over 170 pharmacists across various hospital departments.
- Managed pharmaceutical inventory, tracked drug shortages, and monitored medications nearing expiry.
- Handled supply requests via the national procurement system.
- Optimized workflow efficiency and ensured regulatory compliance.
- Collaborated with pharmacy staff to maintain medication safety standards.
Hospital Pharmacist
Alzahra Hospital
12.2023 - 04.2024
- Company Overview: JCI Accredited
- Dispensing medications prescribed by physicians, ensuring the correct medication, dosage, and administration instructions are provided to patients or other healthcare professionals.
- Identifying potential drug interactions or contraindications, and optimizing therapeutic outcomes.
- Oversee the procurement and storage of medications, ensuring adequate stock levels while minimizing waste or expired inventory.
Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Belbeis Hospital
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Interpreted prescriptions from healthcare providers to properly dispense medications and health products.
- Educated patients on possible drug interactions, potential side effects, and optimal methods of administration.
- Partnered with physicians and other members of healthcare team to optimize patient care through effective use of medications.
- Supervised dispensation of Schedule II and III drugs.
- Advised physicians on how to properly dose medications.
- Completed accurate cycle counts, inventory management and well-calls for customers.
- Dispensed and verified patient prescription orders, conducting necessary utilization reviews.
Senior Pharmacist
Canadian Specialist Hospital
02.2019 - 08.2022
- Company Overview: JCI Accredited
- Review (profile for allergies, contraindications, pharmacological duplications, drug-drug and drug-food interactions and adherence to drug restriction policies) and interprets as to the appropriateness of each prescription / medication order before dispensing to a certain correctness of strength, dose instructions and dosage form.
- Contribute to the clinical forces of the department and participate in ward rounds, clinical handover and promote the role of the pharmacist as an integral part of the hospital multi-disciplinary clinical team.
- Consult with the multidisciplinary team and educate patients / nursing staff about prescribed medication regimes (inpatient and discharge) with the aim of improving compliance.
- Advise / questions / clarified any prescription abnormality with the prescribing physician.
- Any unresolved problems are referred to chief pharmacist.
- Requests received transfers and adjust medication stock and maintain computerized records per established guidelines to ensure drug availability.
- Supervise the repackaging, labeling and documentations for in-Patient units.
- Answer drug related inquiries received from physicians.
- Dentist and nurses.
Pharmacist
Diab Soliman, s Pharmacy
08.2014 - 07.2018
- In-charge.
- Maintenance of inventory and changing per levels of drugs according to consumption.
- Monitoring and minimizing drug shortage in Pharmacy.
- Receive prescriptions from patients and verifies required information is on the form - Developed many compounded medications such as topical analgesics, scar diminishing creams, and a variety of metabolic supplements - Creating a logical and efficient system to process prescriptions, compounding, product verification, and shipping arrangement.
Pharmacist
Belbeis Hospital
09.2014 - 02.2018
- Receiving, reviewing and assembly of medication orders from hospital staff.
- Mixing various pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
- Maintain drug inventory levels by ordering necessary medications and supplies, and verifying deliveries against purchase orders.
Epico – Egyptian Pharmaceutical Industries Company
06.2013 - 09.2013
- Carry on lab-scale experiments in pharmaceutical development area of new products, specifically for pre-formulation and formulation studies - Collect, report, and summarize data of experimental work and present them in a professional way.
- Support different activities in Research and Development Department.
Education
Bachelor - Pharmacy
Egyptian Russian University
Egypt06-2013
M.D. - Clinical Nutrition
Suez Canal University
Egypt07.2023
Skills
- Expert understanding of Medicare and Medicaid
- Pharmacy operations
- Drug distribution professional
- Inventory management
- Prescription compounding and dispensing
- Non-sterile compounded medication development
- Extensive medical terminology knowledge
- Computer Skills: (Word - Excel - PowerPoint - Outlook)
- A creative, enthusiastic and outgoing person with strong and effective organizational and communication skills
- Good team player and able to use own initiative to achieve company objectives Very Good computer skills
- Versatile and learns new tasks/skills quickly
- Professionalism and ethics
- Prescription verification
- Customer service background
- Supervisory experience
Certification
Basic life Support provider March 2020 (According to the AHA basic life support, CPR and AED program)
LANGUAGES
Arabic: Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English: Advanced (C1)
Certificates
M.D. : Clinical Nutrition, 07/2023
Suez Canal University - Egypt
Diploma in TPN & Chemotherapy and IV compounding Techniques, 02/2021
Notting College UK - UK
Clinical Pharmacy Diploma, 07/2016
Tanta University - Egypt
Bachelor Degree : Pharmacy, 06/2013
Egyptian Russian University - Egypt
Digital Marketing Training
Global Napi Pharmaceutical - Egypt
Clinical Research Course
Egyptian Russian University - Egypt
Marketing Course
Egyptian Russian University
Timeline
Assistant Pharmacy Manager
Belbeis General Hospital
08.2024 - 05.2025
Hospital Pharmacist
Alzahra Hospital
12.2023 - 04.2024
Senior Clinical Pharmacist
Belbeis Hospital
09.2022 - 07.2023
Senior Pharmacist
Canadian Specialist Hospital
02.2019 - 08.2022
Pharmacist
Belbeis Hospital
09.2014 - 02.2018
Pharmacist
Diab Soliman, s Pharmacy
08.2014 - 07.2018
Epico – Egyptian Pharmaceutical Industries Company
06.2013 - 09.2013
Bachelor - Pharmacy
Egyptian Russian University
M.D. - Clinical Nutrition
Suez Canal University
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