Riwa Kfoury, Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Riwa Kfoury

Senior Clinical Pharmacist

ASPETAR

Location
Lebanon
Education
Diploma, Pharmacy practice resident
Experience
23 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 6 Months

Senior Clinical Pharmacist at ASPETAR
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since October 2008

Ensuring continuous consultation in various areas like selection of drug therapy, clinical pharmacokinetics, monitoring inpatient's response to current medication, as well as providing valid information and advice regarding the safe, appropriate, and cost-effective use of medications by collaborating with physicians and other healthcare professionals at Aspetar.

Counsel and provide advices to patients regarding pharmaceutical care by applying the best available evidence-based practice.

Educate and conduct presentations regularily.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Lebanese American University (LAU)
  • Lebanon
  • October 2006 to October 2008

Clinical pharmacy tutoring at the American University Hospital (AUH), Makassed General Hospital (MGH), Sacre coeur, and Notre Dame De Secours hospital (NDDS)

Didactic teaching on LAU campus in Byblos
-Therapeutics courses (infectious diseases, endocrinology, gastroenterology, etc.)
-Pharmacokinetics
-Seminar

Pharmacy Practice Resident at Huntsville Hospital Alabama
  • United States
  • September 2005 to October 2006

At Huntsville Hospital in Alabama, I was responsible for nutrition services (parenteral and enteral), drug rounding with the physician every morning, pharmacokinetic dose calculations and monitoring, patient counseling (warfarin, etc.), ...

During my training at the hospital, I was also engaged in many presentations, research and multiple pharmacy students tutoring each month from two different pharmacy schools in Alabama (Auburn and Samford).

Assistant pharmacist at Sili pharmacy
  • Lebanon
  • September 2000 to June 2005

At Sili pharmacy I was responsible for purchasing new drugs that were out of stock, to handle special drugs, administer the drugs to the patients, take their blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol monitoring. I was also responsible for counseling them about appropriate medication use.

Education

Diploma, Pharmacy practice resident
  • at Huntsville Hospital
  • October 2006
Doctorate, Pharmacy
  • at Lebanese American University (LAU)
  • June 2005

G.P.A. = 3.55/4.00

Bachelor's degree, Pharmacy
  • at Lebanese American University (LAU)
  • June 2004

G.P.A. = 3.30/4.00 Member of Honor Society: fall 2000 and spring 2003 Member of Distinction Society: spring 2001, fall 2003 and spring 2004

Specialties & Skills

Counseling
Pharmacokinetics
Tutoring
Society
Pharmacists

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