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Feras Darwish El Hajji

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Prof. Feras Darwish El Hajji

Vice-President

Feras Darwish El-Hajji graduated with a BSc. (1st Class) in Pharmacy from The Applied Science Private University (ASU) in 2002. Following graduation, he worked as a formulation pharmacist in the Research & Development Department at Hikma Pharmaceuticals in Amman, during which he graduated with MSc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Jordan in 2006. In 2007, Feras joined the PhD programme at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) in Northern Ireland in the UK. He was awarded PhD degree in Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice in 2011, to return back to ASU as an Assistant Professor then Associate Professor in Faculty of Pharmacy. Dr Darwish El-Hajji's research is centred on studying the role of pharmacist in both hospital and community pharmacy settings, especially the pharmacist’s participation in antimicrobial use and infection control, antimicrobial stewardship programmes, and knowledge about probiotics. His research also extends to study in vivo drug interactions and pre-clinical studies on animals. At the same time, he supervised a number of postgraduate pharmacy students. The research teams Feras works with are not limited to ASU and other Jordanian universities researchers, but also include researchers from QUB, Antrim Area Hospital in Northern Ireland, and University of Ulster. During his work in the ASU, Dr Feras has been entitled as chairman on Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics Department, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutics Department. He was a member in the Originators & Biosimilars registration committee in the JFDA, before joining the Drug Pricing committee. Moreover, he is active in scientific and voluntary work within Jordan Pharmaceutical Society.

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

    Pre-clinical studies on animals

    Pharmacy practice

    Pharmacoeconomics