5^th Global Pharmacists Annual Meeting

Biography

Prof. Dr Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman obtained his undergraduate degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia and later pursue Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from Michigan USA.He worked as junior lecturer for 2 years then he was elected to the deputyDean and later Dean School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia from 2002 until 2012. He is actively involved in teaching clinical pharmacy in Malaysia and various countries in Asia Pacific. He was invited by the faculty and schools of pharmacy namely in Iran, India, Turki, Vietnam, China, Jordan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Emirates,Sudan and few other countries to teach undergraduates and Master in Clinical Pharmacy program. In the countries he is also actively being invited to numerous of public and private universities to teach clinical pharmacy. He is actively involved in various organisation in the country and internationally. Currently he is the council member for Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society and involve in various international organisation such as WHO consultant for Asia Pacific region, ACCP as Board of Director and Country Chairman, Board of Director for Asian Assciation of School of Pharmacy and country chairman for Malaysia, Country representative for education Chapter in FAPA and few others. He was also the past immediate president for Malaysia Pharmacy Dean Council for Public universities. He also involved in Halal Pharmaecuticals and actively involved in promoting Halal concept especially Halal Pharmaceutical. Recently he was the Representative for Malaysia for OIC countries promoting for Halal Pharmaceuticals. For past few years he has won numerous award nationally and internationally. In 2010, he was named as the winner of Ishidate award for the best Pharmacy Educator in Asia Pacific, the first Muslim in the world to received it and the first Malaysian to win such award. Later in 2011 he was annouced as the most outstanding pharmacist in Malaysia . He has also won various awards in the universities for the excellence university staf, excellence award for lecturer, The Sanggar Sanjjung Award for the Best Individual achievement and few other awards in publications and grants.He has produced more that 4 dozens PhD’s and master in clinical pharmacy by research and published more then 300 papers in various journals and abstracts around the world. He is also the editor and committee members for various journals in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Canada, India and few others around the globe.

Research Interest

He is also actively involved in research activities involving Palm oil tocotrienol for diabetes, Alzheimer, peripheral neuropahty ; halal concept of pharmaceutical products, production of new insulin like structure for diabetes product from frog and few other research areas.