Pharmacovigilance, Drug safety, Discovery and Design

Sherief Khalifa, PhD 

Professor and Vice Chancellor for Quality and Global Engagement, Dean, College of Pharmacy, Gulf Medical University, UAE

Sherief Khalifa received his BSc (Pharm) at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia in 1986, and his PhD at the University of Mississippi (USA) in 1994. Dr. Khalifa joined Suez Canal University, Misr International University and Qatar University in various academic and administrative roles. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgia State University in 2001 and adjunct faculty with the School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi from 2001 – 2005.

As Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Qatar University he contributed to the accreditation of the Bachelor of Pharmacy and the PharmD programs by the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs (CCAPP). In 2015, he assumed the position of Director of Quality Assurance at the level of the University for 2 years.

Dr. Khalifa joined Gulf Medical University in August of 2017 as the Dean of the College of Pharmacy. Under his leadership the PharmD program received accreditation by the UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) and certification by the American Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). The Master’s in Clinical Pharmacy and Master of Science in Drug Discovery and Development programs both were launched and received accreditation by the CAA during Dr. Khalifa’s Deanship.

Dr. Khalifa is a regular course leader in the “Teaching Excellence in Pharmacy Education” program organized by Knowledge E and ACPE and sponsored by the Egyptian Knowledge Bank.

In January of 2020, Dr. Khalifa assumed the position of Vice Chancellor for Quality and Global Engagement. In July of 2021, under his leadership Gulf Medical University received international institutional accreditation by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the agency that accredits higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.

In 2021, Dr. Khalifa was nominated and then elected to serve as a member of the ACPE International Commission and in January 2022, he became the Vice Chair of ACPE International Commission.

Dr. Juny completed all her studies from JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru and started her
career as an academician in 2010. Her Doctoral Research was in the area of Vaccinology and
continued her research in the field of ‘Vaccinology’ and ‘Pediatric Pharmacy Practice’. She
coordinated vaccine safety studies of JSS Hospital, Multi Country Collaborative vaccine
safety studies of World Health Organization (WHO) and various medicine and vaccine trials.
She is a recipient of fellowship from International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul, Korea in
2014. Currently she has more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 25 scientific
presentations national/ international conferences in her credit and delivered more than 40
talks in scientific seminars/conferences. She is also a recipient of scholarships and travel
grants from various national or international agencies.

Dr. Kumud Chapagain is a Clinical Pharmacologist by profession and works as an Associate
Professor at B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Nepal. She holds an MBBS from the
University of Science and Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh, and an MD in Clinical
Pharmacology from the Institute of Medicine, Nepal. She is her batch topper in the MBBS and
the gold medalist in her MD Clinical Pharmacology. Currently, she is pursuing Postgraduate
Medical Education in Global Clinical Scholars Research Training at Harvard Medical School in
Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is also pursuing her Medical Education Fellowship,
Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) at
Southern Medical University - FAIMER Regional Institute, in Guangzhou, China. Dr. Kumud
has 10 years of practice as a Clinical Pharmacologist, a researcher, and an academician and has
published more than 15 research articles in various national and international indexed journals
and has been actively involved in various clinical research and academic activities in Nepal.