Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Biography

Prof. Dr. Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail graduated with a bachelor’s Degree in pharmacy (Hons) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in the year 2000 and successfully awarded a PhD degree in the field of clinical pharmaceutics at Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation (IPI) and School of Pharmacy, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom (UK) in July 2005. To date, she has taught more than 50 courses to diploma, degree and postgraduate students in UK and Malaysia. As the pioneer of clinical pharmaceutics in Malaysia, she is the founder of the first Clinical Pharmaceutics Research Group (CPRG) (2008) in Malaysia and that was later acknowledged as Clinical Biopharmaceutics Research Group (CBRG) under Research Initiative Group (RIG) by Research Management Institute (RMI), UiTM. She holds membership in various local and international pharmacy and health-based organizations. Prof. Dr. Nahlah had published more than 200 publications including research journal articles, proceedings, chapters in books, books and magazine. She has been invited to deliver lectures and conduct workshops at local and international events as well as a reviewer for local and international journals. Prof. Dr. Nahlah had been awarded research and travel grants as well as awards and medals in national and international scientific invention, innovation and design exhibitions, competitions and conferences. As a registered senior clinical pharmacist and a teacher-practitioner, she was one of the regular invited guests for radio UFM Malaysia under segment “U & Health” covering numerous health topics as well as one of the invited speakers for leadership and soft skills development. She is a Council Member of Malaysian Academy of Pharmacy since January 2018. Holding various posts at different management level at different institutions, currently, Prof. Dr. Nahlah is the Deputy Dean of Academic and Operations at the Faculty of Pharmacy, MAHSA University, Bandar Saujana Putra, Selangor, Malaysia.

Research Interest

•Research area of interest mainly in the field of pharmaceutics (drug delivery; nanotechnology), clinical pharmacy, pharmacy education, pharmacy practice, public health, neurobehavioral-psychosocial, pharmaceutical policy, complementary and alternative medicines, and sport sciences. •She is also actively participating in honey, plant and animal modelling studies in exploring and defining new therapeutic entity.