Amro Al-Belbeisi

Senior Pharmacy Leader and Highly Advanced Clinical Pharmacist with 9 years' experience within Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUHFT), one of the United Kingdom's largest tertiary academic healthcare organisations. Currently serving as Specialist Medicine Directorate Lead, providing strategic and operational leadership for pharmacy services across multiple specialist clinical divisions while practising at Highly Advanced level in Infectious Diseases. Extensive experience leading pharmacy operations, medicines governance, formulary management, regulatory compliance, medication safety, quality assurance, financial stewardship, workforce planning, and service transformation.

Proven ability to develop and implement pharmacy policies, standard operating procedures, governance frameworks, and quality improvement initiatives that support safe, effective, and standardised pharmaceutical care across complex healthcare organisations. Experienced in leading multidisciplinary pharmacy teams through recruitment, onboarding, appraisal, mentorship, succession planning, and continuous professional development while fostering a culture of clinical excellence, accountability, and patient safety. Regularly collaborate with executive leadership, medical consultants, nursing leaders, finance teams, operational managers, commissioners, and external stakeholders to deliver organisational objectives, optimise medicines management, and improve patient outcomes.

Demonstrated success leading pharmacy services during periods of significant organisational change, including leading the pharmacy workstream for the establishment of an Acute Cardiac Critical Care Unit during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This involved strategic operational planning, medication management, procurement support, governance implementation, development of medication protocols, workforce coordination, and ensuring continuity of safe pharmaceutical care under exceptional service pressures. Recognised for driving service improvement, strengthening governance frameworks, implementing evidence-based practice, and delivering high-quality patient-centred pharmacy services aligned with international healthcare standards and regulatory requirements.

Fluent in English and Arabic with extensive experience working within diverse multidisciplinary healthcare environments.

Specialist Medicine Directorate Lead & Highly Advanced Infectious Diseases Pharmacist - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom

(2025-09)

Provide strategic and professional leadership for pharmacy services across specialist medicine directorate (Immunology, Respiratory medicine, Genetics, Infectious diseases, Genitourinary, Dermatology, Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism). Ensuring the delivery of high‑quality, patient‑centred pharmacy services across inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory care.

• Represent the organisation at Trust, regional, and national forums, contributing to medicines strategy, governance, and service development.
• Collaborate with senior executives, consultants, nursing leadership, finance, operations, procurement, and external stakeholders to support organisational objectives and optimise medication management.
• Lead medicines governance, assess and manage clinical & financial risk management and business case development. Interpret and disseminate medicines utilisation and expenditure data to inform business planning and cost‑containment strategies. Support and co‑author business cases for new medicines and services.
• Line‑manage senior and specialist pharmacists, oversee workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding and service quality. Act as a senior professional role model, embedding regulatory, ethical, and professional standards.
• Deliver highly advanced infectious diseases clinical practice through clinics, MDTs, ward rounds and ambulatory care. Deliver expert clinical advice in situations with limited evidence or conflicting opinions, influencing senior clinical decision‑making.
• Contribute to the national High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) response by collaborating with consultant Infectious Diseases physicians and Lead Infectious Diseases Pharmacists across UK HCID centers to develop and review national clinical guidance for the treatment and post-exposure prophylaxis of Hantavirus infection. Develop evidence-based patient information leaflets to support safe and effective use of Hantavirus treatment and prophylactic medicines

Senior On‑Call Pharmacist & Resident Pharmacist Line Manager - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom

(2022-05)

• Provide senior operational and clinical leadership across the organisation out‑of‑hours.
• Lead incident escalation, critical event management and high‑risk medicines authorisation.
• Manage resident pharmacists including recruitment, appraisal, wellbeing and performance management.

Clinical Effectiveness & Clinical Economy Pharmacist - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom

(2021-12 - 2025-09)

• Led Trust‑wide formulary management and medicines optimisation processes.
• Provided expert support to Drug & Therapeutics Committee on efficacy, safety and pharmacoeconomic value.
• Oversaw unlicensed medicines governance, clinical guideline/procedures writing, reviewing and high‑cost medicines management and resolve supply challenges.
• Maintained a 20% advanced clinical role as Paediatric IBD Pharmacist.

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom

(2020-03 - 2021-12)

• Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery & Critical Care Specialist Pharmacist: Led pharmaceutical services within the cardiac directorate during the first wave of COVID‑19. Supported establishment of a cardiac critical care unit, including budget planning, stock lists, and medication protocols. Delivered Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery & Critical Care specialist clinical pharmacy service.
• Antimicrobial Stewardship & Clinical Informatics Specialist Pharmacist: Led development and implementation of local and regional antimicrobial guidelines. Provided specialist advice on complex infectious disease cases across ITU, oncology, and hematology. Developed electronic prescribing tools, drug libraries, and clinical decision‑support systems.
• Specialist Gastroenterology & Hepatology Pharmacist: Attend weekly Hepatology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) MDTs to formulate treatment plan to complex patients. Written and updated inhouse patient information leaflets and guidelines on biologics treatment for IBD patients. Provided specialist clinical pharmacy service to Gastroenterology & Hepatology inpatients and outpatients.

Rotational Clinical Pharmacist - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom

(2018-08 - 2020-03)

• Completed rotations across urgent care, stroke, infectious diseases, surgery, cardiology, renal, transplant, acute medicine, ambulatory care and urology.

Trainee pharmacist - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom

(2017-07 - 2018-07)

Masters of Pharmacy - Pharmacy - Robert Gordon University (2013-09 - 2017-06)

Masters of Science - Advancing Healthcare practice - University of Reading (2018-11 - 2023-09)