Someone has to account for every capsule.

I spent three years on the wards at Aga Khan University Hospital, ran the Emergency Department pharmacy team, and precepted ASHP PGY1 residents through their inpatient rotation. Then I moved into research, where the drug stops being routine and starts being evidence.

At AKU's Clinical Trials Unit I've worked both sides of a study. In the research pharmacy I held IMP for more than twenty trials and answered for it to sponsors, monitors, JCIA surveyors, and DRAP. At the coordination desk I ran four international multicentre trials and a validation study from start-up to closeout, and chaired the unit's Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement group.

Those two vantage points don't usually sit in one person. Coordinators learn IMP as a checklist. Pharmacists learn the protocol as someone else's problem. I've had to answer for both, which means I catch the gap between them before a monitor does.

I'm a Canadian permanent resident, based in Edmonton, and open to conversations about Research Pharmacy, IMP management, and clinical trial operations.