Developing the Role of a Clinical Pharmacist in India – Bridging the Gap

Who wrote this course?

Seema Gupta

Seema Gupta is a consultant pharmacist with a specialization in geriatric clinical pharmacy. She completed her B. Pharm and M. Pharm from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India and has been practicing in Melbourne, Australia for more than 20 years. Her work as a clinical pharmacist involves performing medication reviews for patients referred to her by their doctors, ensuring quality use of medications in aged care homes, determining appropriate medication regimens for her patients, reducing unnecessary polypharmacy, monitoring for possible drug interactions and contra-indications for drug use, checking for dosage suitability with current renal and hepatic function and counselling patients on appropriate medication use to maximize therapeutic efficacy. She is a director at AAKS (Vic) Pty Ltd. which is her own company and she also freelances for community pharmacies occasionally which enables her to have a very holistic approach to managing